  Over the past year, remote speech intelligibility testing has become a
popular and necessary alternative to traditional in-person experiments due to
the need for physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. A remote
framework was developed for conducting speech intelligibility tests with normal
hearing listeners. In this study, subjects used their personal computers to
complete sentence recognition tasks in anechoic and reverberant listening
environments. The results obtained using this remote framework were compared
with previously collected in-lab results, and showed higher levels of speech
intelligibility among remote study participants than subjects who completed the
test in the laboratory.
