Development of a "virtual cocktail party" for the measurement of speech intelligibility in a sound field

David J. Lilly; Michele M. Hutter; M. Samantha Lewis; Robert Folmer; Jeffrey Shannon

doi:10.3766/jaaa.22.5.6

Development of a "virtual cocktail party" for the measurement of speech intelligibility in a sound field

David J. Lilly, Michele M. Hutter, M. Samantha Lewis, Robert Folmer, Jeffrey Shannon

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This technical report describes an approach to the measurement of speech intelligibility for sentences presented in a sound field in the presence of 16-talker babble. More specifically, we detail our (1) selection and preparation of target speech materials, (2) selection and preparation of experimental babble, (3) analog instrumentation, (4) software routines for attenuator control, (5) calibration, (6) experimental subjects, and (7) experimental protocol. In the final section of this report we present speech-intelligibility data from 16 young adults (21-30 yr of age) with normal hearing sensitivity for pure-tone signals.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	294-305
Number of pages	12
Journal	Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
Volume	22
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3766/jaaa.22.5.6
State	Published - May 2011
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cocktail-party effect
Sound field
Spatial release from masking
Speech intelligibility
Speech-in-noise test

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Speech and Hearing

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