Subject: Re: SII Software -- New Web Site (Speech Intelligibility Index) From: "C.M. Rankovic" <rankovic(at)ARTICULATION.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:58:37 -0400I suggest that there should be a validation study associated with the new SII standard. This could be something like the report published by Kryter that was associated with ANSI S3.5-1969 (Kryter, KD, 1962, Validation of the Articulation Index, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 34, no. 11, 1698-1702). Sincerely, Christine Rankovic, PhD Articulation Incorporated Cambridge, MA 02139 A=V*E*F*H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chas Pavlovic" <cpavlovic(at)YAHOO.COM> To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:40 PM Subject: SII Software -- New Web Site (Speech Intelligibility Index) > A new site www.sii.to has been created by members of > the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Working Group > S3-79, which is in charge of reviewing American > National Standard ANSI S3.5-1997 ("Methods for > Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index"). The > site provides software for calculating the Speech > Intelligibility Index (SII), as well as notes relevant > to potential future changes of the standard and the > listing of known errors to be corrected in the next > version of the standard. You are encouraged to > contact us with any information that may help make the > Standard better and easier to use. Also, if you have > other software that can facilitate SII calculations, > we urge you to send it to us for a review and posting > on this site. > This standard defines a method for computing a > physical measure that is highly correlated with the > intelligibility of speech as evaluated by speech > perception tests given a group of talkers and > listeners. This measure is called the Speech > Intelligibility Index, or SII. The SII is calculated > from acoustical measurements of speech and noise. > > Chas Pavlovic, chairman > John Hou > Tammo Houtgast > Harry Levitt > Hannes Muesch > Gerald Studebaker > Pat Zurek > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com