Subject: 12-Talker Babble origins From: "Dr. Michael Gordon" <mgordon@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:17:59 -0600 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Dear List, This is probably a naive question, but do any of you know the origin for using 12-talker babble as a background noise? Did it first get used in the Speech-in-Noise (SPIN) testing with Kalikow and colleagues or was it somewhere else? Thanks in advance for all your help! Cheers, Mike -- Dr. Michael S. Gordon Department of Psychology Life Sciences Building Rm. 320 University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36688-0002 USA 251.460.6546 (v) 251.460.6320 (f) mgordon@xxxxxxxx