Individualized estimation of the Speech Intelligibility Index for short sentences: Test-retest reliability
Autor: | Yi Shen, Donghyeon Yun, Yi Liu |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Speech Communication
Index (economics) Speech perception Acoustics and Ultrasonics Hearing Loss Sensorineural Speech recognition Speech Intelligibility Bayesian probability Reproducibility of Results Auditory Threshold Bayes Theorem Ranging Test (assessment) 03 medical and health sciences Bayes' theorem 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Speech Perception Humans 030223 otorhinolaryngology Sound pressure 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Reliability (statistics) Mathematics |
Zdroj: | J Acoust Soc Am |
ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
DOI: | 10.1121/10.0001994 |
Popis: | The speech intelligibility index (SII) model was modified to allow individualized parameters. These parameters included the relative weights of speech cues in five octave-frequency bands ranging from 0.25 to 4 kHz, i.e., the band importance function, and the transfer function that allows the SII to generate predictions on speech-recognition scores. A Bayesian adaptive procedure, the quick-band-importance-function (qBIF) procedure, was utilized to enable efficient estimation of the SII parameters from individual listeners. In two experiments, the SII parameters were estimated for 30 normal-hearing adults using Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) sentences at speech levels of 55, 65, and 75 dB sound pressure level (in Experiment I) and for 15 hearing-impaired (HI) adult listeners using amplified IEEE or AzBio sentences (in Experiment II). In both experiments, even without prior training, the estimated model parameters showed satisfactory reliability between two runs of the qBIF procedure at least one week apart. For the HI listeners, inter-listener variability in most estimated SII parameters was larger than intra-listener variability of the qBIF procedure. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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