The effects of adding realism to a conventional speech-in-noise test
Date
2014Author
Best, Virginia
Keidser, Gitte
Buchholz, Jorg
Freeston, Katrina
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The speech reception threshold (SRT) is routinely used in
research and in the clinic to assess people’s ability to
understand speech in noise. The overall goal of this work was
to determine whether introducing realistic aspects to speech
tests can better capture individual differences and ultimately
produce more relevant performance measures.
The study examined the psychometric effects of (a)
transplanting a standard sentence-in-noise test into a
simulated reverberant cafeteria environment, and (b) moving
from sentence recall to a new ongoing speech comprehension
task.