Test of Spanish sentences to measure speech intelligibility in noise conditions

Test of Spanish sentences to measure speech intelligibility in noise conditions.

This article describes the development of a test for measuring the intelligibility of speech in noise for the Spanish language, similar to the test developed by Kalikow, Stevens, and Elliot (Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 5, 1337-1360, 1977) for the English language. The test consists of six forms, each comprising 25 high-predictability (HP) sentences and 25 low-predictability (L...

A test to measure subjective and objective speech intelligibility.

Measurement of hearing aid outcome is particularly difficult because there are numerous dimensions to consider (e.g., performance, satisfaction, benefit). Often there are discrepancies between scores in these dimensions. It is difficult to reconcile these discrepancies because the materials and formats used to measure each dimension are so very different. We report data obtained with an outcome...

FIST: a French sentence test for speech intelligibility in noise.

Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT): speech intelligibility in noise.

OBJECTIVE The study was designed to assess the effects of noise on the intelligibility of speech elements used in the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT), developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The CAT consists of 126 test items, or callsigns, each of which is made up of a two-syllable word selected from the 18-item military alphabet (Alpha-Zulu) followed by a one-syllable number (all numb...

The Preschool Speech Intelligibility Measure

Impairment of the phonological system is one of the most common communication disorders of young children. In 1971, Milisen estimated that functional articulation disorders make up 75 to 80% of all speech impairments in children. Seventeen years later, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke concluded that 10 to 15% of all preschoolers had a speech disorder...