Auditec Auditory Test ASHA Spondees, NU-6A

ASHA Spondees is a speech threshold (speech reception threshold-SRT) recording. It is two sets of 18 spondaic words formulated by an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) committee of audiologists. The two lists are considered to be of equivalent difficulty. The SRT is 20 dB SPL. This list is considered an adult word list. The ASHA Spondees administration time is seven minutes.

The Northwestern University Auditory Test Number Six (NU-6) is a phonetically balanced word recognition test that employs CNC words. The talker has a General American dialect. The articulation function is approximately 4% /dB. There are four lists of 50 words each (200 words total). The NU-6 administration time is 10-19 minutes.