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- Title
Feasibility of an Adaptive Version of the Everyday Conversational Sentences in Noise Test.
- Authors
Miles, Kelly; Best, Virginia; Buchholz, Jörg M.
- Abstract
Purpose: To investigate potential reasons for the mismatch between laboratory/ clinic-based sentence-in-noise performance and real-world listening abilities, we recently developed a corpus of natural, spontaneously spoken speech with three vocal effort levels (Everyday Conversational Sentences in Noise [ECOSiN]). Here, we examined the feasibility of using the ECO-SiN corpus for adaptive speech-in-noise testing, which might be a desirable format in certain situations (e.g., during a clinical visit). Method: Ten young, normal-hearing adults, along with 20 older adults with hearing loss participated in the study. Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were obtained using ECO-SiN sentences, which were systematically compared to the SRTs obtained using traditional Bamford-Kowal-Bench-like sentences. Results: Results demonstrated the properties of the test compared favorably with those of a standard test based on scripted and clearly spoken sentences. Moreover, whereas normal-hearing listeners received a benefit from an increase in vocal effort, the participants with hearing loss showed a disbenefit that increased with increasing hearing loss. Conclusion: The adaptive version of the ECO-SiN test is feasible for research and clinical testing.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; COMPUTER adaptive testing; RESEARCH; HEARING; STATISTICAL reliability; CONVERSATION; NOISE; SPEECH audiometry; AUDIOLOGY; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; PSYCHOMETRICS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HEARING disorders; RESEARCH funding; LISTENING; STATISTICAL correlation; SOUND; SPEECH
- Publication
Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 2024, Vol 67, Issue 2, p680
- ISSN
1092-4388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00507