Fact · Speech recognition
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recommends spondaic words as the usual test material for the speech recognition threshold, and defines them as two-syllable words with equal stress on both syllables.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Spondaic words are two-syllable words with equal stress on both syllables”
Determining Threshold Level for Speech (ASHA Guidelines, 1988), American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1988, Speech Threshold Definitions, Speech Recognition Threshold (SRT).
Open the original- What it measures
- Spondaic words are compound words such as baseball, hot dog or pancake, which are said with equal stress on each part. The guideline lists the spondaic words that clinics use.
- What it does not show
- The guideline notes that other test materials can be used, but then the material must be recorded with the result.