Development of the Mandarin Hearing in Noise Test (MHINT)

Wong, Lena L. N.; Soli, Sigfrid D.; Li, Sha; Han, Ning; Huang, Ming-Wei

doi:10.1097/aud.0b013e31803154d0

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“…The "×" stands for row number and "−" stands for a test word. Chinese Mandarin Hearing in Noise Test (MHINT) (Wong et al, 2007) was used for the sentence intelligibility test. Every list contained 10 test sentences and each sentence was composed of 10 target words, for example, " (This team enters the finals at last)".…”

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Chinese Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility in Primary School Classrooms

Peng¹,

Jiang²

2016

Archives of Acoustics

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The Chinese word identification and sentence intelligibility are evaluated by grades 3 and 5 students in the classrooms with different reverberation times (RTs) from three primary school under different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). The relationships between subjective word identification and sentence intelligibility scores and speech transmission index (STI) are analyzed. The results show that both Chinese word identification and sentence intelligibility scores for grades 3 and 5 students in the classroom increased with the increase of SNR (and STI), increased with the increase of the age of students, and decreased with the increase of RT. To achieve a 99% sentence intelligibility score, the STIs required for grades 3, grade 5 students, and adults are 0.71, 0.61, and 0.51, respectively. The required objective acoustical index determined by a certain threshold of the word identification test might be underestimated for younger children (grade 3 students) in classroom but overestimated for adults. A method based on the sentence test is more useful for speech intelligibility evaluation in classrooms than that based on the word test for different age groups. Younger children need more favorable classroom acoustical environment with a higher STI than older children and adults to achieve the optimum speech communication in the classroom.

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Section: Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility Testmentioning

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Chinese Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility in Primary School Classrooms

Peng¹,

Jiang²

2016

Archives of Acoustics

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“…Although these differences were found to be statistically significant, they were all below 2 dB. This variability is primarily influenced by the step size used during adaptive testing (Wong et al, 2007). The step size in the current study was 2 dB, and the average difference between test and retest for all lists was therefore smaller than the adaptive step size, indicating an acceptable variability.…”

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“…For this procedure, the noise was added to each sentence so as to ensure an SNR of -5 dB (noise 5 dB louder than speech). This level was chosen in accordance with the findings of previous researchers (Plomp & Mimpen, 1979;Nilsson et al, 1994;Kollmeier & Wesselkamp, 1996;Versfeld et al, 2000;Wong & Soli, 2005;Vaillancourt et al, 2005;Hällgren et al, 2006;Wong et al, 2007), who indicated that an SNR of -5 dB should yield an intelligibility score (defined in this instance as the percentage of syllables correctly discerned) of approximately 50%. Scoring each syllable provided a means of determining a percentage intelligibility score for each separate sentence.…”

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The development of an Afrikaans test for sentence recognition thresholds in noise

Theunissen

Hanekom

Swanepoel

2010

International Journal of Audiology

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“…The sentence material consisted of sentences taken from the Mandarin Hearing in Noise Test database (Wong et al, 2007). All the sentences were produced by a male speaker, with fundamental frequency ranging from 75 to 180 Hz.…”

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The effects of binaural spectral resolution mismatch on Mandarin speech perception in simulated electric hearing

Chen

Wong

Tahmina

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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This study assessed the effects of binaural spectral resolution mismatch on the intelligibility of Mandarin speech in noise using bilateral cochlear implant simulations. Noise-vocoded Mandarin speech, corrupted by speech-shaped noise at 0 and 5 dB signal-to-noise ratios, were presented unilaterally or bilaterally to normal-hearing listeners with mismatched spectral resolution between ears. Significant binaural benefits for Mandarin speech recognition were observed only with matched spectral resolution between ears. In addition, the performance of tone identification was more robust to noise than that of sentence recognition, suggesting factors other than tone identification might account more for the degraded sentence recognition in noise.

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Development of the Mandarin Hearing in Noise Test (MHINT)

Cited by 204 publications

References 6 publications

Chinese Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility in Primary School Classrooms

Chinese Word Identification and Sentence Intelligibility in Primary School Classrooms

The development of an Afrikaans test for sentence recognition thresholds in noise

The effects of binaural spectral resolution mismatch on Mandarin speech perception in simulated electric hearing

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