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Difference between pure tone and speech audiometer

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Speech audiometry assesses your ability to hear and comprehend spoken words. ... They are also charted on an audiogram, which measures the decibel level, frequency and gravity of hearing loss.

Pure-tone audiometry only measures audibility thresholds, rather than other aspects of hearing such as sound localization and speech recognition. ... However, there are benefits to using pure-tone audiometry over other forms of hearing test, such as click auditory brainstem response pure tone audiometry, which only gives an indication of absolute perceptual thresholds of tonal sounds (peripheral function), whereas speech audiometry determines speech intelligibility and discrimination

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