title: The influence of pauses in the competing signal on synthetic sentence identification scores.
abstract: Thirty normal-hearing subjects participated in an experiment testing the effects of pauses in the competing discourse on the synthetic sentence identification (SSI) task. When speech noise was added to the continuous discourse used for competition, subjects found it more difficult to identify the key words in the synthetic sentences.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013060:Speech; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000379:methods*; D013637:Tape Recording