Comparison of calculated, measured and self-assessed intelligibility of speech in noise for hearing-aid users
| Autor: | Mia Karlsson, Björn Israelsson, Anders Ringdahl, Lennart Magnusson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Hearing aid Self-Assessment medicine.medical_specialty Frequency response Computer science Hearing loss Speech recognition medicine.medical_treatment Within person Paired comparison Intelligibility (communication) Audiology Speech in noise Hearing Aids medicine Humans Correction of Hearing Impairment Aged Percentage point Middle Aged Otorhinolaryngology Speech Discrimination Tests Speech Perception Female medicine.symptom Noise |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Audiology. 30:160-171 |
| ISSN: | 0105-0397 |
| Popis: | The Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) was used along with paired-comparison judgements and speech recognition scores to compare the speech intelligibility provided by two hearing-aid frequency responses in two different background noises. The purpose was to validate an SII-based procedure. Test subjects were 26 hearing-aid users representing a wide range of hearing loss configurations. One hearing-aid setting was in close agreement with the NAL-R prescription, whereas the other setting was achieved by reducing the high-frequency gain by about 10 dB compared to NAL-R. There were good overall agreements between results of the three methods. Average speech recognition scores were about 4 percentage points higher for the NAL-R frequency response, which also was subjectively judged as significantly better in terms of speech intelligibility. The SII based procedure was found to be suitable for comparing hearing-aid characteristics within subjects. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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