Abstract
The use of a closed-message set of synthetic or artificial sentences has been explored in studies on speech intelligibility in English for the past 4 yr. Each alternative sentence was constructed as an approximation to a real sentence by selecting each successive word on the basis of the conditional probabilities of word sequences. This method for generating test materials can, in theory, be generalized to any language that is characterized by rules of syntax. This paper describes the development and evaluation of synthetic sentence message sets in the Spanish language. Performance-intensity functions in quiet and in the presence of a competing speech message will be described and compared with similar data for English sentences. The advantages of the synthetic sentences for assessing speech-discrimination scores for hearing-impaired Spanish-speaking listeners will be described.
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