Human Auditory Ecology: Extending Hearing Research to the Perception of Natural Soundscapes by Humans in Rapidly Changing Environments

C Lorenzi, F Apoux, E Grinfeder, B Krause… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Research in hearing sciences has provided extensive knowledge about how the human
auditory system processes speech and assists communication. In contrast, little is known …

Effect of hearing aid technology level and individual characteristics on listener outcome measures

PN Plyler, J Hausladen, M Capps, MA Cox - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of hearing aid technology
level on listener outcome measures. In addition, we aimed to determine if individual …

Sensorineural hearing loss alters auditory discrimination of natural soundscapes

N Miller-Viacava, D Lazard, T Delmas… - … Journal of Audiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The ability to discriminate natural soundscapes recorded in a temperate terrestrial
biome was measured in 15 hearing-impaired (HI) listeners with bilateral, mild to severe …

Evaluating Real-World Benefits of Hearing Aids With Deep Neural Network–Based Noise Reduction: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

JH Christensen, H Whiston, M Lough… - American journal of …, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Noise reduction technologies in hearing aids provide benefits under controlled
conditions. However, differences in their real-life effectiveness are not established. We …

Impact of auditory environments on language outcomes in children with a cochlear implant

NS Poupore, S Chidarala, NS Morris… - … Journal of Audiology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives To analyse the effects of auditory environments on receptive and expressive
language outcomes in children with a CI. Design A single-institution retrospective review …

Predicting Individual Hearing-Aid Preference From Self-Reported Listening Experiences in Daily Life

JH Christensen, J Rumley, JC Gil-Carvajal… - Ear and …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The study compared the utility of two approaches for collecting real-world
listening experiences to predict hearing-aid preference: a retrospective questionnaire …

Spectral Masking With Explicit Time-Context Windowing for Neural Network-Based Monaural Speech Enhancement

LV Fiorio, B Karanov, B Defraene, J David… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and analyze the use of an explicit time-context window for neural network-
based spectral masking speech enhancement to leverage signal context dependencies …

Effect of hearing aid technology level on new hearing aid users

J Hausladen, PN Plyler, B Clausen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background Hearing aid manufacturers offer several different levels of technology that vary
in sophistication and cost. It would stand to reason that higher technology hearing aids …

The Noise Reduction Algorithm May Not Compensate for the Degradation in Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio Caused by Wide Dynamic Range Compression

D Yun, J Lentz, Y Shen - American Journal of Audiology, 2024 - ASHA
Purpose: Most modern hearing aids (HAs) employ wide dynamic range compression
(WDRC) and noise reduction (NR) algorithms. It is known that the nonlinear effects of WDRC …

Auditory environment diversity quantified using entropy from real-world hearing aid data

E Jorgensen, J Xu, O Chipara, YH Wu - Frontiers in digital health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Using data collected from hearing aid users' own hearing aids could improve
the customization of hearing aid processing for different users based on the auditory …