{"id":2123,"date":"2024-06-27T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besthearing.us\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2024-06-27T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:51:31","slug":"understanding-speech-testing-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besthearing.us\/understanding-speech-testing-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Speech Testing: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Hearing loss can creep up on you. One day, you might notice that your phone alerts are quieter or struggle to understand your friends during a busy Friday night happy hour at The Fall River Taphouse. Hearing tests are a great way to identify hearing loss<\/a> before it adversely affects you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Audiologists use multiple methods to assess your hearing, with pure tone testing being one of the most common. Pure tone testing identifies the lowest volume and frequency you can hear. During the test, you will listen to a series of beeps and signal when you hear them. While pure tone testing is likely the most familiar, another critical yet lesser-known test is speech testing, which evaluates your ability to understand words or phrases.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Three Types of Speech Testing<\/h2>\n\n\n