Measurement and optimisation of the perceptual equivalence of the Dutch consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word lists using synthetic speech and list pairs

Objectives: (1) to determine whether the standard Dutch word lists for speech audiometry are equally intelligible in normal-hearing listeners (Experiment 1), (2) to investigate whether synthetic speech can be used to create word lists (Experiment 1) and (3) to determine whether the list effect found in Experiment 1 can be reduced by combining two lists into pairs (Experiment 2). Design: Participants performed speech tests in quiet with the original (natural) and synthetic word lists (Experiment 1.). In Experiment 2, new participants performed speech tests with list pairs from the original list... Mehr ...