Speech Audiometry Using Synthetic Words -A Review of the Literature-

Abstract

A speech audiometry trial is described for testing the degree of hearing loss. Usually, we used natural speech for the test. However, natural speech does not have universality and reproductibility, whereas synthetic speech does.
We have been trying to use synthetic words for speech a u diometry. This review traces the early work in the development of speech audiometry, distorted speech audiometry, speech synthesis and synthetic speech audiometry.