Development and validation of the AzBio sentence lists.

Objectives: The goal of this study was to create and validate a new set of sentence lists that could be used to evaluate the speech perception abilities of hearing-impaired listeners and cochlear implant (CI) users. Our intention was to generate a large number of sentence lists with an equivalent level of difficulty for the evaluation of performance over time and across conditions.

Design: The AzBio sentence corpus includes 1000 sentences recorded from two female and two male talkers.