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  • Title: The Sharvard Corpus: a phonemically-balanced Spanish sentence resource for audiology.
    Author: Aubanel V, Lecumberri ML, Cooke M.
    Journal: Int J Audiol; 2014 Sep; 53(9):633-8. PubMed ID: 24863133.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: The current study describes the collection of a new phonemically-balanced Spanish sentence resource, known as the Sharvard Corpus. DESIGN: The resource contains 700 sentences inspired by the original English Harvard sentences along with speech recordings from a male and female native peninsular Spanish talker. Sentences each contain five keywords for scoring and are grouped into 70 lists of 10 sentences using an automatic phoneme-balancing procedure. STUDY SAMPLE: Twenty-three native Spanish listeners identified keywords in the Sharvard sentences in speech-shaped noise. RESULTS: Psychometric functions for the Sharvard sentences indicate mean speech reception thresholds of -6.07 and -6.24 dB, and slopes of 10.53 and 11.03 percentage points per dB at the 50% keywords correct point for male and female talkers respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The resulting open source collection of Spanish sentence material for speech perception testing is available online.
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