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4.9.1 The work area in the Speech screen
Selecting tabular or graphical view
In the Speech test screen of the OTOsuite Audiometry module you can use either tabular view or graphical view.
1. To select the view you wish to use, select
Tools
>
Options
>
Audiometry
>
Speech
>
Speech View Mode
>
Tabular
View
or
Graphical View
.
The work area can be shown in two modes:
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• Speech testing - graph view ► 49
4.9.2 Speech feature boxes
You can access a number of speech display options directly from the Speech main screen.
Feature boxes
Pure Tone Data Displays the pure tone average for air conduction and bone conduction as well as the articulation
index.
•
To configure pure tone average (PTA) calculation, select
Tools
>
Options
>
Audiometry
>
Gen-
eral
>
Misc.
>
PTA Frequency AC/BC
.
• The AI is calculated according to the “Count-the-dot” method.
Stenger
Displays the results of a speech Stenger test (optional).
•
Scoring options are positive (+) or negative (-).
4.9.3 Terms and abbreviations used in Speech testing
SDT Speech Detection Threshold
SRT Speech Recognition Threshold
MCL Most Comfortable Loudness Level
UCL UnComfortable Loudness Level
WRS/SRS Word Recognition Score/Sentence Recognition Score
• Score
Percentage of correct/incorrect words.
• Level
dB level at which the words were presented.
• [Msk]
Effective masking level (dB EML) used for contralateral masking.
• SNR
Signal-to-Noise Ratio.
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4 Navigating in the OTOsuiteAudiometry Module