Description of a new low-cost and open-source audiometer and its validation with normal-hearing listeners: The Aupiometer.

ABSTRACT: Hearing loss is a major public health problem. In 2050, it could affect 2.5 billion people. It has therefore become necessary to prevent and diagnose them as early and as widely as possible. However, the costs of clinical equipment dedicated to the functional exploration of hearing remain high and hamper their distribution, while the technologies used are relatively basic. For example, the gold-standard pure-tone audiometry (PTA) essentially consists of emitting pure sounds. In addition, clinical audiometers are generally limited to PTA or few audiological tests, while hearing loss induce multiple functional deficits. Here, we present the Aupiometer, a low-cost audiometer implemented on a modular open-source system based on Raspberry Pi, and which integrates the entire technical framework

SUBMITTER: Isnard V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11315275 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature