OPRA-RS: A Hearing-Aid Fitting Method Based on Automatic Speech Recognition and Random Search.

ABSTRACT: Hearing-aid (HA) prescription rules (such as NAL-NL2, DSL-v5, and CAM2) are used by HA audiologists to define initial HA settings (e.g., insertion gains, IGs) for patients. This initial fitting is later individually adjusted for each patient to improve clinical outcomes in terms of speech intelligibility and listening comfort. During this fine-tuning stage, speech-intelligibility tests are often carried out with the patient to assess the benefits associated with different HA settings. As these tests tend to be time-consuming and performance on them depends on the patient's level of fatigue and familiarity with the test material, only a limited number of HA settings can be explored. Consequently, it is likely that a suboptimal fitting is used for the patient. Recent studies have shown that

SUBMITTER: Goncalves Braz L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8899657 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature