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Speech in Babble Test (SiB)

MB Margot Buyle
VA Viktoria Azoidou
MP Marousa Pavlou
VR Vincent Van Rompaey
DB Doris-Eva Bamiou
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The SiB test is an adaptive, low redundancy speech in babble type noise test, that uses real words as targets, pronounced by a phonetically-trained adult female speaker of Standard Southern British English origin and presented in the background of 20-talker babble noise (22). The test was presented monaurally in a silent room on a calibrated computer using custom-written Matlab software via Sony WIRELESS COMFORT MDR-RF811RK headphones. A signal to noise ratio (SNR) threshold value is calculated as the mean of six to eight reversals, which represents the SNR needed for a performance level of about 50% correct, also known as the Speech Reception Threshold (SRT), which is referred to as SiB score (22).

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