Classic Control Panel
A.
Control Panel
B.
Test Options panel
C.
Monitor/Level panel
Whenever the test buttons and other functions are used, you can use the corresponding keys on the keyboard, or the on-
screen controls located at the top of the screen or in the Control Panel to the left.
For detailed examples of audiometric testing, see the MADSEN Astera² Reference Manual.
1. Select the
Speech
(Speech) screen in the Otosuite Audiometry module.
2. If needed, click the
Scoring and Playing
(Scoring and Playing) icon to set up word or
phoneme scoring.
3. Prepare the patient. If you wish to instruct the patient after you have placed the transducers on the head of the
patient, you can use the
Talk Forward
(Talk Forward) button. You can talk to the patient to adjust the patient com-
munication levels when
Talk Forward
(Talk Forward) is active.
4. In the Control Panel, select test conditions for ear, transducer, unmasked/masked, and test type.
5. Select the stimulus level with the Up/Down arrow buttons (or on keypad).
6. Select speech input signals.
You can choose from either microphone input or recorded input source. Combining recorded
Source A
(Source A) and
Source B
(Source B) as
Input
(Input) sources in the
Test Options
(Test Options) section of the
Control Panel
(Control
Panel) will replace the audiometer speech masking with a recorded input.
7. Select your speech input from the right-click menu in the control panel.
–
Int. CD
(Int. CD) (CD material in CD/DVD drive)
–
() (integrated Otosuite Speech Material or regular sound files)
–
Line In
(Line In) (analog input from external sound players, eg. CD, MD, MP3 or cassette recorders connected to
the audiometer via the
Line In
(Line In) input).
Important
•
If an external playback device is used to generate speech stimuli via the line input, care must be
taken to ensure that the player has a flat frequency response in the range 125 to 6300 Hz. The maximum allow-
able deviation from the average response level is +/-1 dB; the average response level should be measured over the
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13 Performing speech audiometry
