Semantically unpredictable sentences with fixed keyword slots assess speech intelligibility without context cues.

Evidence

The speech material used for the target sentences was designed by Raake and Katz ( 2006 ) and consisted of 24 lists of 12 anechoic recordings of the same male voice digitized and down-sampled here at 44.1 kHz with 16-bit quantization. These recordings were semantically unpredictable sentences in French and contained four key words (nouns, adjectives, and verbs). For instance, one sentence was “la LOI BRILLE par la CHANCE CREUSE” (the LAW SHINES by the HOLLOW CHANCE). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3544

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the specific type of speech test material used: semantically unpredictable sentences with four scored keywords.