CUNY Nonsense Syllable Test
Download: CUNY-NST,

The CUNY Nonsense Syllable Test (Resnick, Dubno, Hoffnung, and Levitt, 1975) is a closed set test consisting of VC and CV syllables in three vowel environments. There are 11 sets, seven "core" sets and four optional sets.

The 11 sets are as follows:

For an explanation of test administration and a sample answer sheet, see Dubno and Dirks, 1982.

Each syllable was recorded embedded in a carrier phrase "You will mark ____, please". In each set one syllable is repeated (a different syllable in each protocol). When scoring, the two identical syllables each receive one-half point. There are six test protocols, i.e., six different recordings of the entire test. The files stored here were digitized from the original reel-to-reel recordings (sub-masters). In the original recordings the order of the sets was randomized, as was the order of the syllables in each set. You will find a calibration signal for each protocol. The calibration signal is equal to the average level of the word "mark" in the carrier phrase.

Note: The competing noise used in collecting normative data was an equalized cafeteria noise.

File naming convention format:

ppsc..cx.WAV

pp is the two character protocol code
s is the one character set number
c..c is the one to four letter graphical representation of the sound
x is 1 or 2 (or omitted for syllables not duplicated)


References

Dubno, J.R. and Dirks, D.D. Evaluation of hearing-impaired listeners using a nonsense-syllable test I. Test reliability. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1982, 25, 135-141.

Dubno, J.R.,Dirks, D.D., and Langhofer, L. Evaluation of hearing-impaired listeners using a nonsense-syllable test II. Syllable recognition and consonant confusion patterns, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1982, 25, 141-148.

Levitt, H. and Resnick, S.B. Speech reception by the hearing impaired: Methods of testing and development of new tests. Scandinavian Audiology Supplementum No. 6, C. Ludvigsen and J. Barfod (*Eds.), Spring , 1978.

Resnick, S.B., Dubno, J.R., Hoffnung, S., and Levitt, H. Phoneme errors on a nonsense syllable test. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1975, 58 (Suppl. 1), 114

Cafeteria Noise and Caltone
Download: Cafeteria Noise and Caltone

AB Word List
Download: ABLIST

Lab and Field evaluation files:

Dinner Table

Food Preparation_Kitchen

In the car

Noisy Apartment

Noisy Restaurant

On the bus

Outdoor

All eight files in this folder were recognized as 'outdoors' by 100% of the participants.
 

Quiet Apartment

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