A comparison of speech intelligibility and subjective quality with hearing-aid processing in older adults with hearing loss.

This study characterised the relationship between speech intelligibility and quality in listeners with hearing loss for a range of hearing-aid processing settings and acoustic conditions. Binaural speech intelligibility scores and quality ratings were measured for sentences presented in babble noise...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Audiology Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 46 - 59
Autores principales: Arehart, Kathryn H., Chon, Song Hui, Lundberg, Emily M. H., Harvey Jr., Lewis O., Kates, James M., Anderson, Melinda C., Rallapalli, Varsha H., Souza, Pamela E.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan 2022
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          Arehart, Kathryn H.
          Chon, Song Hui
          Lundberg, Emily M. H.
          Harvey Jr., Lewis O.
          Kates, James M.
          Anderson, Melinda C.
          Rallapalli, Varsha H.
          Souza, Pamela E.
        affil: SLHS Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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          Speech Intelligibility Evaluation
          Hearing Aids In Old Age
          Hearing Disorders Therapy
          Acoustics
          Speech Perception
          Human
          Word Lists
          Noise
          Simulations
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Adult
          Male
          Female
          Middle Age
          Aged
          Psychometrics
          Descriptive Statistics
          Funding Source
          Data Analysis Software
          Signal Processing, Computer Assisted
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Male
          Female
      ab: This study characterised the relationship between speech intelligibility and quality in listeners with hearing loss for a range of hearing-aid processing settings and acoustic conditions. Binaural speech intelligibility scores and quality ratings were measured for sentences presented in babble noise and processed through a hearing-aid simulation. The intelligibility–quality relationship was investigated by (1) assessing the effects of experimental conditions on each task; (2) directly comparing intelligibility scores and quality ratings for each participant across the range of conditions; and (3) comparing the association between signal envelope fidelity (represented by a cepstral correlation metric) and intelligibility and quality. Participants were 15 adults (7 females; age range 59–81 years) with mild to moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss. Intelligibility and quality showed a positive association both with each other and with changes to signal fidelity introduced by the entire acoustic and signal-processing system including the additive noise and the hearing-aid output. As signal fidelity decreased, quality ratings changed at a slower rate than intelligibility scores. Individual psychometric functions were more variable for quality compared to intelligibility. Variability in the intelligibility–quality relationship reinforces the importance of measuring both intelligibility and quality in clinical hearing-aid fittings.
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