The development and evaluation of the Finnish Matrix Sentence Test for speech intelligibility assessment

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 728-737

  Dietz, Aarno ^a,b   Buschermöhle, Michael ^c,d   Aarnisalo, Antti A ^e   Vanhanen, Annukka ^f   Hyyrynen, Taneli ^e   Aaltonen, Olli ^f   Löppönen, Heikki ^a,g   Zokoll, Melanie A ^b,d   Kollmeier, Birger ^b,c,d  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c Center of Competence HörTech GGmbH   (Germany)

^d Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all   (Germany)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Matrix test; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Speech audiometry; Speech recognition in noise; Speech recognition threshold; SRT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FINLAND; FINNISH MATRIX SENTENCE TEST; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LOUDNESS; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULTANEOUS MASKING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RATE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NOISE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902595434     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2014.898185     Document Type: Article

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