Articulation Testing and Standards for Articulation Tests
Mones E. Hawley · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1955
Articulation tests are frequently used for four purposes: (1) audiometry, (2) evaluation of building acoustics, (3) evaluation of speech communication equipment, and (4) research in speech, hearing, and related topics. Several different kinds of tests are used, but all are relatively difficult to administer and evaluate, require special training or facilities for the experimenter, and are expensive. Frequently, training of the subjects poses a major problem. Quite a few laboratories are using articulation tests, but at present it is difficult to reproduce results among them. A subcommittee of the American Standards Association is endeavoring to write a standard for procedures in these tests which will result at least in the same rank order among a group of systems when each group is tested by several different laboratories. The major concerns of this committee have been test materials, selection and training of subjects, talker and listener levels, system usage, and the reporting of results. Recorded samples of a few tests will be reproduced.