Predictive Value of Directional Sensitivity Diagrams of Hearing AIDS for Word Discrimination in Noise
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Audiology
- Vol. 12 (1) , 57-61
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01050398309076225
Abstract
In an anchoic room the directional characteristics of 17 different hearing aids were evaluated using KEMAR Word discrimination scores in the presence of speech-like masking noise—a reliable parameter for the performance of a hearing aid—were compared with the directional sensitivity of the hearing aid under study for different signals. The directional characteristics of a hearing aid have the best predictive value for word discrimination scores in the presence of masking noise if this masking noise is used to measure these characteristics.Keywords
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