title: Development of a Dutch matrix sentence test to assess speech intelligibility in noise.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  A Dutch matrix sentence test was developed and evaluated. A matrix test is a speech-in-noise test based on a closed speech corpus of sentences derived from words from fixed categories. An example is "Mark gives five large flowers."
  
  
  METHODS
  This report consists of the development of the speech test and a multi-center evaluation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-five normal-hearing participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The developed matrix test has a speech reception threshold in stationary noise of - 8.4 dB with an inter-list standard deviation of 0.2 dB. The slope of the intelligibility function is 10.2 %/dB and this is slightly lower than that of similar tests in other languages (12.6 to 17.1 %/dB).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The matrix test is now also available in Dutch and can be used in both Flanders and the Netherlands.
authors: * Clinical and Experimental Audiology, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
authors: Rolph
authors: R
authors: Houben
authors: Jan
authors: J
authors: Koopman
authors: Heleen
authors: H
authors: Luts
authors: Kirsten C
authors: KC
authors: Wagener
authors: Astrid
authors: A
authors: van Wieringen
authors: Hans
authors: H
authors: Verschuure
authors: Wouter A
authors: WA
authors: Dreschler
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D009622:Noise; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Speech-in-noise; normative data; speech intelligibility; speech test