Re: SII Software -- New Web Site (Speech Intelligibility Index)

["C.M. Rankovic" <rankovic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suggest that there should be a validation study associated with the new
SII standard.  This could be something like the report published by Kryter
that was associated with ANSI S3.5-1969 (Kryter, KD, 1962, Validation of the
Articulation Index, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 34,
no. 11, 1698-1702).

Sincerely,
Christine Rankovic, PhD
Articulation Incorporated
Cambridge, MA  02139

A=V*E*F*H

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chas Pavlovic" <cpavlovic@YAHOO.COM>
To: <AUDITORY@LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:40 PM
Subject: SII Software -- New Web Site (Speech Intelligibility Index)


>         A new site www.sii.to  has been created by members of
> the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Working Group
> S3-79, which is in  charge of reviewing American
> National Standard ANSI S3.5-1997 ("Methods for
> Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index"). The
> site provides software for calculating the Speech
> Intelligibility Index (SII), as well as notes relevant
> to potential future changes of the standard and the
> listing of known errors to be corrected in the next
> version of the standard.  You are encouraged to
> contact us with any information that may help make the
> Standard better and easier to use.  Also, if you have
> other software that can facilitate SII calculations,
> we urge you to send it to us for a review and posting
> on this site.
>         This standard defines a method for computing a
> physical measure that is highly correlated with the
> intelligibility of speech as evaluated by speech
> perception tests given a group of talkers and
> listeners.  This measure is called the Speech
> Intelligibility Index, or SII.  The SII is calculated
> from acoustical measurements of speech and noise.
>
> Chas Pavlovic, chairman
> John Hou
> Tammo Houtgast
> Harry Levitt
> Hannes Muesch
> Gerald Studebaker
> Pat Zurek
>
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