Development of a novel Italian speech-in-noise test using a roving-level adaptive method: adult population-based normative data.

Development of a novel Italian speech-in-noise test using a roving-level adaptive method: adult population-based normative data.

Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital. 2016 Dec;36(6):506-512

Authors: Canzi P, Manfrin M, Locatelli G, Nopp P, Perotti M, Benazzo M

Abstract
In recent years the increasing development of hearing devices has led to a critical analysis of the standard methods employed to evaluate hearing function. Being too far from reality, conventional investigation of hearing loss based on pure-tone threshold audiometry and on mono/disyllabic word lists, presented in quiet conditions, has been shown to be inadequate. A speech-in-noise test using a roving-level adaptive method employs target and competing signals varying in level in order to reproduce everyday life speaking conditions and explore a more complete sound range. Up to now, only few roving-level adaptive tests have been published in the literature. We conducted a rovinglevel adaptive test in healthy Italian adults to produce new normative data on a language of Latin origin.

PMID: 28177334 [PubMed - in process]

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