Influence of Three Auditory Profiles on Aided Speech Perception in Different Noise Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Hearing aid (HA) users differ greatly in their speech-in-noise (SIN) outcomes. This could be because the degree to which current HA fittings can address individual listening needs differs across users and listening situations. In two earlier studies, an auditory test battery and a data-driven method were developed for classifying HA candidates into four distinct auditory profiles differing in audiometric hearing loss and suprathreshold hearing abilities. This study explored aided SIN outcome for three of these profiles in different noise scenarios. Thirty-one older habitual HA users and six young normal-hearing listeners participated. Two SIN tasks were administered: a speech recognition task and a "just follow conversation" task requiring the participants to self-adjust the target-speech

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8246576 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature