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Title
Calibration of clinical audio recording and analysis systems for sound intensity measurement
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Abstract
Purpose: Sound intensity is an important acoustic feature of voice/speech signals. Yet recordings are performed with different microphone, amplifier, and computer configurations, and it is therefore crucial to calibrate sound intensity measures of clinical audio recording and analysis systems on the basis of output of a sound-level meter. This study was designed to evaluate feasibility, validity, and accuracy of calibration methods, including audiometric speech noise signals and human voice signals under typical speech conditions. Method: Calibration consisted of 3 comparisons between data from 29 measurement microphone-and-computer systems and data from the sound-level meter: signal-specific comparison with audiometric speech noise at 5 levels, signal-specific comparison with natural voice at 3 levels, and cross-signal comparison with natural voice at 3 levels. Intensity measures from recording systems were then linearly converted into calibrated data on the basis of these comparisons, and validity and accuracy of calibrated sound intensity were investigated. Results: Very strong correlations and quasisimilarity were found between calibrated data and sound-level meter data across calibration methods and recording systems. Conclusions: Calibration of clinical sound intensity measures according to this method is feasible, valid, accurate, and representative for a heterogeneous set of microphones and data acquisition systems in real-life circumstances with distinct noise contexts.
Language
English
Source (journal)
American journal of speech-language pathology / American Speech, Language, Hearing Association. - Rockville, Md, 1991, currens
Publication
Rockville, Md : American Speech-Language-Hearing Association , 2015
ISSN
1058-0360 [print]
1558-9110 [online]
DOI
10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0082
Volume/pages
24 :4 (2015) , p. 608-618
ISI
000368430100020
Pubmed ID
26161588
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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