title: Comparison of three types of French speech-in-noise tests: a multi-center study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare results on the everyday sentence test 'FIST', the new closed-set sentence test 'FrMatrix', and the digit triplet screening test 'FrDigit3'.
  
  
  METHODS
  First, the FrMatrix was developed and normative values were obtained. Subsequently, speech reception thresholds (SRTs) for the three types of tests were gathered at four study centers representing different geographic regions in Belgium and France.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-seven normal-hearing listeners took part in the normative study of the FrMatrix, and 118 subjects, with a wide range of hearing thresholds, participated in the comparative study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Homogenizing the individual words of the FrMatrix with regard to their intelligibility resulted in a reference SRT of -6.0 (±0.6) dB SNR and slope at the SRT of 14.0 %/dB. The within-subject variability was only 0.4 dB. Comparison of the three tests showed high correlations between the SRTs mutually (>0.81). The FrMatrix had the highest discriminative power, both in stationary and in fluctuating noise. For all three tests, differences across the participating study centers were small and not significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The FIST, the FrMatrix, and the FrDigit3 provide similar results and reliably evaluate speech recognition performance in noise both in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.
authors: ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, Leuven, Belgium. Sofie.Jansen@med.kuleuven.be
authors: Sofie
authors: S
authors: Jansen
authors: Heleen
authors: H
authors: Luts
authors: Kirsten Carola
authors: KC
authors: Wagener
authors: Birger
authors: B
authors: Kollmeier
authors: Matthieu
authors: M
authors: Del Rio
authors: René
authors: R
authors: Dauman
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: James
authors: Bernard
authors: B
authors: Fraysse
authors: Emilie
authors: E
authors: Vormès
authors: Bruno
authors: B
authors: Frachet
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Wouters
authors: Astrid
authors: A
authors: van Wieringen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001530:Belgium; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test; D055815:Young Adult