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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"speech reception threshold"”.
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Speech Reception Threshold in Noise
… was to determine the effects of noise on the speech reception threshold (SRT) of these listeners. Specifically, this study sought to determine, if indeed, noise has more of a deleterious effect on these listeners than their normal-hearing counterparts, as evidenced by a signal-to-noise ratio …
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Speech Reception Threshold Materials for Taiwan Mandarin
Speech reception threshold (SRT) tools have been developed to assist in the evaluation of hearing. This study was performed to develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate Taiwan Mandarin trisyllabic words which can be used to measure the SRT. Eighty-nine commonly used trisyllabic words were …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Trisyllabic Words for Speech Reception Threshold Testing in Cantonese
… could then be used in the measurement of the speech reception threshold. A selection of 90 frequently utilized trisyllabic words were selected and then digitally recorded by male and female talkers of Standard Cantonese and presented to 20 subjects with normal hearing beginning at 6 dB below …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Words for Speech Reception Threshold Testing in Arabic
The use of speech audiometry is essential in audiological testing. One of the most important elements of speech audiometry is speech reception threshold. To provide services for the growing population of non-English speaking people, audiologists need speech audiometry materials in a variety of …
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The reliability and validity of an isiZulu speech reception Threshold test in quiet for hearing and hearing-impaired individuals in KwaZulu-Natal
Speech reception threshold testing is part of the initial audiological test battery, and should be in the first language of the individual being tested. A newly developed isiZulu Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) test in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, required further reliability and validity …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Digital Recordings for Speech Audiometry Testing in Mandarin Chinese: Standard Mandarin Dialect
The development of digitally recorded speech audiometry materials in Mandarin Chinese has been limited to date. High quality materials proliferate in the English language and have been developed for other languages such as Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, Polish, …
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Performance Intensity Functions for Digitally Recorded Japanese Speech Audiometry Materials
… of this study was to develop digitally recorded speech audiometry materials in the Japanese language to evaluate Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) and speech discrimination. Trisyllabic words were used to evaluate the SRT and bisyllabic words were used for speech discrimination. Words were …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Cantonese Bisyllabic Word Recognition Materials Spoken by Male and Female Talkers
The purpose of this study was to create psychometrically equivalent word lists in the language of Cantonese for word recognition testing. Frequently used bisyllabic Cantonese words were recorded by a native female and male talker. The word lists were evaluated by administering the word recognition …