title: A method for measuring the intelligibility of uninterrupted, continuous speech.
abstract: Speech-in-noise tests commonly use short, discrete sentences as representative samples of everyday speech. These tests cannot, however, fully represent the added demands of understanding ongoing, linguistically complex speech. Using a new monitoring method to measure the intelligibility of continuous speech and a standard trial-by-trial, speech-in-noise test the effects of target duration and linguistic complexity were examined. For a group of older hearing-impaired listeners, significantly higher speech reception thresholds were found for continuous, complex speech targets than for syntactically simple sentences. The results highlight the need to sample speech intelligibility in a variety of everyday speech-in-noise scenarios.
authors.affiliation: MRC/CSO Institute of Hearing Research - Scottish Section, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Alexandra Parade, Glasgow G31 2ER, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: MacPherson
authors.affiliation: MRC/CSO Institute of Hearing Research - Scottish Section, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Alexandra Parade, Glasgow G31 2ER, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Akeroyd
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001302:Audiometry, Speech / Q000379:methods*; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D032882:Comprehension; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception