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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
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Jing Chen, Zhe Wang, Ruijuan Dong, Xinxing Fu, Yuan Wang, Shuo Wang
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Tilde Van Hirtum, Ben Somers, Benjamin Dieudonne, Eline Verschueren, Jan Wouters, Tom Francart
Summary: This study investigates the application of neural envelope tracking in children with hearing loss and suggests that it could be a valuable tool for predicting the benefits of personal hearing aids on speech intelligibility. The study also shows that using personal hearing aids can enhance neural envelope tracking, particularly in challenging speech conditions.
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Lionel Fontan, Libio Goncalves Braz, Julien Pinquier, Michael A. Stone, Christian Fullgrabe
Summary: Combining automatic speech recognition (ASR) with hearing-aid (HA) simulations can predict the speech-identification performance of persons with age-related hearing loss. This study investigated optimizing time constants using a random-search algorithm and found that it significantly improved ASR scores when using specific HA configurations.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Chan -Jae Park, Seung-Min Lee, A-Hyeon Jo, Chan-Hoon Haan
Summary: This study aims to establish learning background noise criteria for people with incomplete hearing. The study found that the group with incomplete hearing performed worse in speech intelligibility tests compared to the normal hearing adult group. Based on the experimental results, the appropriate signal to noise ratio (SNR) for educational spaces for people with incomplete hearing was determined to be 20 dB for the Elderly group and 15 dB for the children group.
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Kelly Miles, Timothy Beechey, Virginia Best, Jorg Buchholz
Summary: Laboratory and clinical assessments of speech intelligibility need to evolve to better predict real-world speech intelligibility. This study evaluated speech intelligibility using standard sentence recall tasks and more realistic sentence recall tasks. The results showed that the more realistic speech tasks provided a better dynamic range for capturing individual performance and hearing-aid benefit across a range of real-world environments.
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Anna-Lena Moennich, Sebastian Strieth, Andrea Bohnert, Benjamin Philipp Ernst, Tobias Rader
Summary: The aim of this study was to develop the German Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) with a female speaker and compare it with the norms of male speech tests. Results showed that the norms for the HINT with a female speaker are comparable to the norms with a male speaker.
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(2023)
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Hendrik Kayser, Tobias Herzke, Paul Maanen, Max Zimmermann, Giso Grimm, Volker Hohmann
Summary: open Master Hearing Aid (openMHA) is an open-source software platform developed for the hearing aid research community. It aims to support sustainable and reproducible research towards improvement of new types of assistive hearing systems. The software provides a flexible framework for conducting hearing aid research using tools, signal processing plugins, and custom methods.
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Hafeez Ur Rehman Siddiqui, Adil Ali Saleem, Muhammad Amjad Raza, Kainat Zafar, Riccardo Russo, Sandra Dudley
Summary: The goal of this study is to automate the BioAid assistive hearing system with a scene classification algorithm, eliminating the inconvenience of manual adjustment and automatically adjusting the hearing aid settings based on acoustic scenes, thereby improving the user experience for individuals with hearing loss.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jungmin Ahn, Jihyun Lim, Minwoong Kang, Yang-Sun Cho
Summary: This study analyzed the outcomes of hearing aid use and examined the correlation between common audiological tests, such as pure-tone audiometry or word recognition test, and the subjective benefit of hearing aid wearers. The results showed that the word recognition score after using the hearing aids was the most associated factor with the subjective outcomes of the hearing aids.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2023)
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James M. Kates, Kathryn H. Arehart
Summary: This study presents a revised version of the Hearing-Aid Speech Perception Index (HASPI), which shows a statistically significant reduction in RMS error compared to the original version for most of the data considered, and significantly improved accuracy for speech in reverberation when compared to the original version.
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Peng Ji, Jiling Yang, Nan Zhang, Qian Zhai, Minjie Li, Yueyi Wang, Tianlun Shen, Alfrendo Satyanaga
Summary: In this study, an in-situ test was conducted in Jiangsu Province using standard penetration test instruments. Time history curves and data on strain, acceleration, force, velocity, energy, and penetration degree were obtained through the stress wave test. The energy transfer efficiency of the domestic SPT system was measured, with an average energy efficiency of 78.7%. The results can be used to improve the quantitative level of domestic investigation and correct the results obtained from different SPT systems at home and abroad.
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Ulrich Hoppe, Anne Hast, Thomas Hocke
Summary: Hearing loss is associated with decreased speech perception and changes in the auditory pathway. The effects of hearing aids on binaural speech perception are not fully understood. This study conducted various speech perception tests in bilateral hearing aid users and found that the poorer ear's thresholds had a detrimental effect on both unaided and aided word recognition scores achieved by the better ear. Furthermore, aided binaural word recognition was affected in a way that cannot be solely explained by bilateral summation. This study provides evidence of reorganization and altered functioning of the auditory pathway due to asymmetric hearing loss, highlighting the importance of early provision of hearing aids for each ear.
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Pushkar Deshpande, Christian Brandt, Stefan Debener, Tobias Neher
Summary: Individuals with mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss appear to have intact comprehension-related electrophysiological responses regardless of prior experience with amplified sound, when speech audibility is ensured.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Helen Henshaw, Antje Heinrich, Ashana Tittle, Melanie Ferguson
Summary: This study investigated whether training targeting the storage component of working memory could improve cognition, speech-in-noise perception, and self-reported hearing in adult hearing aid users. The results showed improvements in trained tasks and a small improvement in self-reported hearing ability, but no generalized improvements in untrained measures of cognition, speech-in-noise perception, or self-reported hearing in everyday life.
Letter
Otorhinolaryngology
I. Holube, T. Steffens, A. Winkler
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Alexandra Winkler, Rebecca Carroll, Inga Holube
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A. Winkler, I. Holube, H. Husstedt
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Petra von Gablenz, Eckhard Hoffmann, Inga Holube
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Andreas Buechner, Benjamin Krueger, Silke Klawitter, Denise Zimmermann, Stefan Fredelake, Inga Holube
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Gitte Keidser, Graham Naylor, Douglas S. Brungart, Andreas Caduff, Jennifer Campos, Simon Carlile, Mark G. Carpenter, Giso Grimm, Volker Hohmann, Inga Holube, Stefan Launer, Thomas Lunner, Ravish Mehra, Frances Rapport, Malcolm Slaney, Karolina Smeds
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Inga Holube, Petra von Gablenz, Joerg Bitzer
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Theresa Nuesse, Anne Schlueter, Ulrike Lemke, Inga Holube
Summary: By conducting various health-related tests and calculating a frailty index, outcomes of the HHI questionnaire can be predicted.
Results showed significant contributions of pure-tone hearing thresholds, speech recognition, age, frailty, mental health, and willingness to use hearing aids on HHI outcomes.
When using the HHI, it is important to be aware of the influences of age and health-related variables on the results.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Arne Leijon, Petra von Gablenz, Inga Holube, Jalil Taghia, Karolina Smeds
Summary: This paper presents a new Bayesian method for analyzing Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data and applies it in a re-analysis of previous data. The method has been implemented as a Python package called EmaCalc, RRID:SCR 022943. It can handle EMA input data with nominal categories and ordinal ratings, using a variant of ordinal regression. The Bayesian method automatically estimates the statistical credibility of the analysis results and can reveal valuable insights for future potential customers.
FRONTIERS IN DIGITAL HEALTH
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Saskia Ibelings, Thomas Brand, Inga Holube
Summary: This study investigates the use of a Text-To-Speech (TTS) system in reducing the time and effort of developing speech-recognition tests. The results show that the synthesized speech has improved speech-recognition threshold compared to natural speech, but no difference in listening effort. This finding suggests the potential for new speech tests with a large amount of speech material using TTS systems.
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Acoustics
Jule Pohlhausen, Inga Holube, Joerg Bitzer
Summary: Recently, there has been a lot of attention on exploring the acoustic conditions of people in their everyday environments. This contribution proposes an algorithm to determine the own-voice audio segments (OVS) and a method for measuring sound pressure levels (SPL). The algorithm, based on machine learning and acoustic features, allows for reliable own voice detection.
Letter
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Gitte Keidser, Graham Naylor, Douglas S. Brungart, Andreas Caduff, Jennifer Campos, Simon Carlile, Mark G. Carpenter, Giso Grimm, Volker Hohmann, Inga Holube, Stefan Launer, Thomas Lunner, Ravish Mehra, Frances Rapport, Malcolm Slaney, Karolina Smeds
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Jan Heeren, Theresa Nuesse, Matthias Latzel, Inga Holube, Volker Hohmann, Kirsten C. Wagener, Michael Schulte
Summary: This article introduces a multi-talker paradigm that adjusts speech-recognition scores using different attentional processes, aiming to conduct measurements at high signal-to-noise ratios. The study found that the performance of 22 young normal-hearing participants was affected by cognitive load when simultaneously detecting the speaker and repeating target words.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Petra von Gablenz, Ulrik Kowalk, Jorg Bitzer, Markus Meis, Inga Holube
Summary: The study utilized Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) in adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss to investigate the effects of hearing aid fitting. It found significant differences in hearing-related dimensions between first-time and experienced hearing aid users, while EMA data collected in the unaided condition did not accurately predict long-term hearing aid use.
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Theresa Nuesse, Bianca Wiercinski, Thomas Brand, Inga Holube