Srinivasan Nirmal, Patro Chhayakanta, Kansangra Radhika, Trotman Angelica
Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USA.
Audiol Res. 2024 May 22;14(3):469-478. doi: 10.3390/audiolres14030039.
The use of remote testing to collect behavioral data has been on the rise, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we present psychometric functions for a commonly used speech corpus obtained in remote testing and laboratory testing conditions on young normal hearing listeners in the presence of different types of maskers. Headphone use for the remote testing group was checked by supplementing procedures from prior literature using a Huggins pitch task. Results revealed no significant differences in the measured thresholds using the remote testing and laboratory testing conditions for all the three masker types. Also, the thresholds measured obtained in these two conditions were strongly correlated for a different group of young normal hearing listeners. Based on the results, excellent outcomes on auditory threshold measurements where the stimuli are presented both at levels lower than and above an individual's speech-recognition threshold can be obtained by remotely testing the listeners.
使用远程测试来收集行为数据的情况一直在增加，尤其是在新冠疫情之后。在此，我们展示了在不同类型掩蔽声存在的情况下，针对年轻听力正常的听众在远程测试和实验室测试条件下获得的一个常用语音语料库的心理测量函数。通过使用哈金斯音高任务补充先前文献中的程序，对远程测试组的耳机使用情况进行了检查。结果显示，对于所有三种掩蔽声类型，在远程测试和实验室测试条件下测得的阈值没有显著差异。此外，在这两种条件下测得的阈值对于另一组年轻听力正常的听众也具有很强的相关性。基于这些结果，通过对听众进行远程测试，可以在刺激呈现水平低于和高于个体语音识别阈值的情况下，在听觉阈值测量方面获得优异的结果。
