A fitting Method for Headphones to compensate individual Hearing Impairments
Baumgartner, Hannah and Schulz, Arne and Hein, Andreas and Holube, Inga and Herzke, Tobias
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conferenceon Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Sensorineural hearing loss often results in altered loudness perception and a smaller perceivable dynamic range.To compensate sensorineural hearing loss it is necessary to fit an individual compressive gain. Fitting of hearing aids is usually done by professionals together with the hearing aid user. To give the users of TV-headsets the possibility to adjust not only the volume of the acoustic signal but also the dynamics, three different versions of interactive elf-fitting systems were designed and evaluated. The user ests were performed with 11 subjects with mild to moderate hearing loss. The results were evaluated with regard to benefit in quailty, loudness perception and speech intelligibility.
01 / 2009
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