Source and Receiver Behavior in the Use of a Criterion
James P. Egan, Frank R. Clarke · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1956
A listener in an articulation test is confident of some of his responses and dubious about others. On the basis of this fact, it is reasonable to require that a receiver decide whether or not his response is correct. If he adopts various criteria from test to test, a receiver operating characteristic may be obtained which will be one way of describing quantitatively this type of behavior. The curve showing the confirming and rejecting behavior of the receiver is compared to that of the source using the same test materials and the same speech-to-noise ratio.