title: The Sharvard Corpus: a phonemically-balanced Spanish sentence resource for audiology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The current study describes the collection of a new phonemically-balanced Spanish sentence resource, known as the Sharvard Corpus.
  
  
  METHODS
  The resource contains 700 sentences inspired by the original English Harvard sentences along with speech recordings from a male and female native peninsular Spanish talker. Sentences each contain five keywords for scoring and are grouped into 70 lists of 10 sentences using an automatic phoneme-balancing procedure.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-three native Spanish listeners identified keywords in the Sharvard sentences in speech-shaped noise.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Psychometric functions for the Sharvard sentences indicate mean speech reception thresholds of -6.07 and -6.24 dB, and slopes of 10.53 and 11.03 percentage points per dB at the 50% keywords correct point for male and female talkers respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The resulting open source collection of Spanish sentence material for speech perception testing is available online.
authors.affiliation: * The MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney , Penrith, NSW , Australia.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aubanel
authors.forename: Maria Luisa García
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lecumberri
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cooke
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D010700:Phonetics; D011594:Psychometrics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013030:Spain; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test / Q000379:methods*; D014833:Voice Quality
keywords: Spanish; Speech perception in noise; open speech resource; phonemic balance