Speech perception in complex acoustic environments:
Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, listeners with hearing impairments still complain about their speech perception in...
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| description | Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, listeners with hearing impairments still complain about their speech perception in the presence of noise. The basic tonal audiometry only gives a cursory idea of the degree of difficulty in spoken communication caused by hearing loss because it does not assess the ability to understand speech. Therefore, the use of speech-in-noise tests to measure hearing loss in complex scenes is an integral part of a patient's audiological study. Most research has concentrated on studying only stationary sound sources, but in natural acoustic scenes, conversations may become very difficult to understand in the presence of moving sound sources such as a moving talker or a passing vehicle. Therefore, this thesis deals with quantifying speech perception in the presence of moving maskers through virtual sound sources presented binaurally via headphones. Significant differences in several conditions were found, revealing that the auditory system assesses differently the moving maskers than the stationary maskers. Therefore, the inclusion of moving conditions in clinical listening tests is recommended, in order to assess speech-in-noise perception in a more realistic environment. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-644122024-04-14T10:27:41Z Speech perception in complex acoustic environments: Viveros Muñoz, Rhoddy A. speech-in-noise perception binaural technology room acoustics moving sound sources head movements thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences Listeners with hearing impairments have difficulties understanding speech in the presence of background noise. Although prosthetic devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants may improve the hearing capability, listeners with hearing impairments still complain about their speech perception in the presence of noise. The basic tonal audiometry only gives a cursory idea of the degree of difficulty in spoken communication caused by hearing loss because it does not assess the ability to understand speech. Therefore, the use of speech-in-noise tests to measure hearing loss in complex scenes is an integral part of a patient's audiological study. Most research has concentrated on studying only stationary sound sources, but in natural acoustic scenes, conversations may become very difficult to understand in the presence of moving sound sources such as a moving talker or a passing vehicle. Therefore, this thesis deals with quantifying speech perception in the presence of moving maskers through virtual sound sources presented binaurally via headphones. Significant differences in several conditions were found, revealing that the auditory system assesses differently the moving maskers than the stationary maskers. Therefore, the inclusion of moving conditions in clinical listening tests is recommended, in order to assess speech-in-noise perception in a more realistic environment. 2021-04-08T15:34:11Z 2021-04-08T15:34:11Z 2019 book ONIX_20210408_9783832549633_54 9783832549633 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64412 eng Aachener Beiträge zur Akustik image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=4963&lng=eng&id= https://www.logos-verlag.de/ebooks/OA/978-3-8325-4963-3.pdf Logos Verlag Berlin Logos Verlag Berlin 10.30819/4963 10.30819/4963 04b263a1-7fba-4491-9eae-1c394ac42fc3 9783832549633 Logos Verlag Berlin 31 166 Berlin/Germany open access |
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| topic | speech-in-noise perception binaural technology room acoustics moving sound sources head movements thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TT Other technologies and applied sciences |
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