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Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies
Effective hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation requires personalization of the HA fitting parameters, but in current clinical practice only the gain prescription is typically individualized. To optimize the fitting process, advanced HA settings such as noise reduction and microphone directionality can al...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216520960861 |
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author | Wu, Mengfan Sanchez-Lopez, Raul El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad Nielsen, Silje G. Fereczkowski, Michal Dau, Torsten Santurette, Sébastien Neher, Tobias |
author_facet | Wu, Mengfan Sanchez-Lopez, Raul El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad Nielsen, Silje G. Fereczkowski, Michal Dau, Torsten Santurette, Sébastien Neher, Tobias |
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description | Effective hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation requires personalization of the HA fitting parameters, but in current clinical practice only the gain prescription is typically individualized. To optimize the fitting process, advanced HA settings such as noise reduction and microphone directionality can also be tailored to individual hearing deficits. In two earlier studies, an auditory test battery and a data-driven approach that allow classifying hearing-impaired listeners into four auditory profiles were developed. Because these profiles were found to be characterized by markedly different hearing abilities, it was hypothesized that more tailored HA fittings would lead to better outcomes for such listeners. Here, we explored potential interactions between the four auditory profiles and HA outcome as assessed with three different measures (speech recognition, overall quality, and noise annoyance) and six HA processing strategies with various noise reduction, directionality, and compression settings. Using virtual acoustics, a realistic speech-in-noise environment was simulated. The stimuli were generated using a HA simulator and presented to 49 habitual HA users who had previously been profiled. The four auditory profiles differed clearly in terms of their mean aided speech reception thresholds, thereby implying different needs in terms of signal-to-noise ratio improvement. However, no clear interactions with the tested HA processing strategies were found. Overall, these findings suggest that the auditory profiles can capture some of the individual differences in HA processing needs and that further research is required to identify suitable HA solutions for them. |
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spelling | pubmed-75942162020-11-12 Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies Wu, Mengfan Sanchez-Lopez, Raul El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad Nielsen, Silje G. Fereczkowski, Michal Dau, Torsten Santurette, Sébastien Neher, Tobias Trends Hear 2019 ISAAR special collection: Original Article Effective hearing aid (HA) rehabilitation requires personalization of the HA fitting parameters, but in current clinical practice only the gain prescription is typically individualized. To optimize the fitting process, advanced HA settings such as noise reduction and microphone directionality can also be tailored to individual hearing deficits. In two earlier studies, an auditory test battery and a data-driven approach that allow classifying hearing-impaired listeners into four auditory profiles were developed. Because these profiles were found to be characterized by markedly different hearing abilities, it was hypothesized that more tailored HA fittings would lead to better outcomes for such listeners. Here, we explored potential interactions between the four auditory profiles and HA outcome as assessed with three different measures (speech recognition, overall quality, and noise annoyance) and six HA processing strategies with various noise reduction, directionality, and compression settings. Using virtual acoustics, a realistic speech-in-noise environment was simulated. The stimuli were generated using a HA simulator and presented to 49 habitual HA users who had previously been profiled. The four auditory profiles differed clearly in terms of their mean aided speech reception thresholds, thereby implying different needs in terms of signal-to-noise ratio improvement. However, no clear interactions with the tested HA processing strategies were found. Overall, these findings suggest that the auditory profiles can capture some of the individual differences in HA processing needs and that further research is required to identify suitable HA solutions for them. SAGE Publications 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7594216/ /pubmed/33073727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216520960861 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | 2019 ISAAR special collection: Original Article Wu, Mengfan Sanchez-Lopez, Raul El-Haj-Ali, Mouhamad Nielsen, Silje G. Fereczkowski, Michal Dau, Torsten Santurette, Sébastien Neher, Tobias Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title | Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech
Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated
Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title_full | Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech
Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated
Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title_fullStr | Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech
Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated
Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech
Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated
Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title_short | Investigating the Effects of Four Auditory Profiles on Speech
Recognition, Overall Quality, and Noise Annoyance With Simulated
Hearing-Aid Processing Strategies |
title_sort | investigating the effects of four auditory profiles on speech
recognition, overall quality, and noise annoyance with simulated
hearing-aid processing strategies |
topic | 2019 ISAAR special collection: Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216520960861 |
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