title: The HSM sentence test as a tool for evaluating the speech understanding in noise of cochlear implant users.
abstract: The German HSM Sentence Test, available on compact disc (CD), consists of 30 lists of 20 everyday sentences. It was developed in the desire to have a sufficient number of test sentences for the repeated evaluation of speech understanding of CI users. A noise with speech-shaped spectrum on the CD allows the evaluation of speech understanding in noise. With the HSM Sentence Test we evaluated the speech understanding of participants of the Combi-40 European Multicentric Study. Results are shown for sentences presented without noise and with signal-to-noise ratios of 15, 10, 5 and 0 dB.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewandte Physik der Universität Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hochmair-Desoyer
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D003638:Deafness / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013067:Speech Perception