Evaluation Method for Hearing Aid Fitting under Reverberation: Comparison between Monaural and Binaural Hearing Aids

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• Some hearing-impaired persons with hearing aids complain of listening difficulty under reverberation. No method, however, is currently available for hearing aid fitting that permits evaluation of hearing difficulty caused by reverberations. In this study, we produced speech materials with a reverberation time of 2.02 s that mimicked a reverberant environment (a classroom). Speech materials with rever-beration times of 0 and 1.01 s were also made. Listening tests were performed with these materials in hearing-impaired subjects and normal-hearing subjects in a soundproof booth. Listening tests were also done in a classroom. Our results showed that speech material with a reverberation time of 2.02 s had a decreased listening-test score in hearing-impaired subjects with both monaural and binaural hearing aids. Similar results were ohtained in a reverberant environment. Our findings suggest the validity of using speech materials with different reverberation times to predict the listening performance under reverberation of hearing-impaired persons with hearing aids.

著者

• Inoue Megumi

  Department Of Acoustic Design Kyushu Institute Of Design

• Shiraishi Kimio

  Department of Human Science, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

• Yonemoto Kiyoshi

  Faculty of Social Welfare, Iwate Prefecture University

• Imamura Akihide

  Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University

• Shiraishi K

  Department Of Acoustic Design Faculty Of Design Kyushu University

• Imamura Akihide

  Department Of Otorhinolaryngology School Of Medicine Fukuoka University

• Yonemoto Kiyoshi

  Faculty Of Social Welfare Iwate Prefecture University

• Shiraishi Kimio

  Department of Acoustic Design, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

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