Conversation-tolerance is a novel scale for speech-in-noise meaningfulness

Evidence

For the conversation tolerance test, listeners heard the same sentence at two SNRs, one at an estimate of their speech-in-noise reception threshold (SNR50) and one at SNR50 plus an increment of 0.5–8 dB. In each of a pair of intervals, the participant was asked, “How many conversations in this situation would you tolerate?” (i.e., a paired single-interval task). Twenty-one adults (median age: 66 years; range: 52–73) with varying hearing ability (median BE4FA: 24 dB HL; range: 4–61) completed the task, repeating each increment in randomized order ten times. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 5684

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the conversation-tolerance rating task as a methodological option for quantifying meaningful hearing aid benefit.