Speech audiometry in the Tatar language in the diagnosis of sensorineural hearing loss

Among the existing methods of studying human auditory function, speech audiometry is widely used, which provides an opportunity to quantitatively and qualitatively judge the condition of the subject's hearing by the degree of intelligibility of speech sounds. Each language has its own phonetic, grammatical, acoustic and other features, which requires the creation of verbal tests in the respective language, suitable for speech audiometry. It has been found that the method of speech audiometry achieves a consistency of recording and reproducing a speech test, there is no influence of the acoustics of the room, and elements of subjectivity in the pronunciation of words are excluded. Due to the lack of balanced speech material, the method of verbal audiometry has not yet been used with Tatar nationals who do not speak or speak poorly Russian.