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International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests: ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests

Akeroyd, Michael A.; Arlinger, Stig; Bentler, Ruth A.; Boothroyd, Arthur; Dillier, Norbert; Dreschler, Wouter A.; Gagn�, Jean-Pierre; Lutman, Mark; Wouters, Jan; Wong, Lena; Kollmeier, Birger

Authors

Stig Arlinger

Ruth A. Bentler

Arthur Boothroyd

Norbert Dillier

Wouter A. Dreschler

Jean-Pierre Gagn�

Mark Lutman

Jan Wouters

Lena Wong

Birger Kollmeier



Abstract

Objective: To provide guidelines for the development of two types of closed-set speech-perception tests that can be applied and interpreted in the same way across languages. The guidelines cover the digit triplet and the matrix sentence tests that are most commonly used to test speech recognition in noise. They were developed by a working group on Multilingual Speech Tests of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA). Design: The recommendations are based on reviews of existing evaluations of the digit triplet and matrix tests as well as on the research experience of members of the ICRA Working Group. They represent the results of a consensus process. Results: The resulting recommendations deal with: Test design and word selection; Talker characteristics; Audio recording and stimulus preparation; Masking noise; Test administration; and Test validation. Conclusions: By following these guidelines for the development of any new test of this kind, clinicians and researchers working in any language will be able to perform tests whose results can be compared and combined in cross-language studies.

Citation

Akeroyd, M. A., Arlinger, S., Bentler, R. A., Boothroyd, A., Dillier, N., Dreschler, W. A., …Kollmeier, B. (2015). International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA) recommendations for the construction of multilingual speech tests: ICRA Working Group on Multilingual Speech Tests. International Journal of Audiology, 54(Sup. 2), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2015.1030513

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 12, 2015
Online Publication Date Apr 29, 2015
Publication Date 2015-05
Deposit Date Dec 13, 2018
Journal International Journal of Audiology
Print ISSN 1499-2027
Electronic ISSN 1708-8186
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 54
Issue Sup. 2
Pages 17-22
DOI https://doi.org/10.3109/14992027.2015.1030513
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1411880
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/14992027.2015.1030513