A Compact Two-Loudspeaker Virtual Sound Reproduction System for Clinical Testing of Spatial Hearing With Hearing-Assistive Devices.

ABSTRACT: Exciting developments in hearing aid and cochlear implant technology for linking signal processing across the ears have improved spatial hearing outcomes. This has resulted in an increased emphasis on clinical assessment of the spatial hearing abilities of hearing-assistive device users. Effective assessment of spatial hearing currently requires a large and costly loudspeaker array system, housed in a heavily acoustically treated testing room. This imposes economic and logistical constraints that limit proliferation of array systems, particularly in developing nations. Despite their size and cost, the ability of current clinical array systems to reproduce realistic spatial sound fields is limited, which substantially reduces the range of realistic acoustic scenes that can be used for diagn

SUBMITTER: Hamdan EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8835348 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature