Errors on a Speech-in-Babble Sentence Recognition Test Reveal Individual Differences in Acoustic Phonetic Perception and Babble Misallocations

Conclusions: Individual differences among NH listeners arise both in terms of words accurately identified and errors committed during open-set recognition of sentences in babble maskers. Error mining to characterize individual listeners can be done automatically at the levels of acoustic phonetic perception and the misallocation of background babble words into open-set responses. Error mining can increase test information and the efficiency and accuracy of characterizing individual listeners.
Source: Ear and Hearing - Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research