Hearing Loss at 3 Kilohertz and the Chaba 'Proposed Clinical Test of Speech Discrimination in Noise'

Abstract

Forty-eight young men, 21 with rather sharp audiometric losses above 2 kiloHertz, were given a standard test of monsyllables in noise. On the average, these 47 men scored 10 fewer words correct per 100 than has been reported for normal controls. Scattergrams of performance vs a variety of pure- tone and speech threshold data, however, showed that no audiometric information could predict performance in noise. It was concluded that the standardized speech-in-noise test itself should be considered as the predictor instead of threshold tests, and that it should be validated against actual job performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 27, 1972
Accession Number
AD0757337

Entities

People

  • C. K. Myers
  • Cynthia Angermeier

Organizations

  • Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Audiometry
  • Auditory Acuity
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Biomedical Research
  • Classification
  • Discrimination
  • Frequency
  • Hearing
  • Hearing Loss
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Medical Personnel
  • Navy
  • Security
  • Speech
  • Standards
  • Submarines
  • Voice Communications

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Regression Analysis.