Effects of room reverberation upon hearing aid quality judgments.
Hearing-aid-processed speech recorded in reverberant and nonreverberant environments was ranked utilizing quality judgment and speech discrimination tasks. 21 normally hearing and 20 hearing-impaired listeners ranked the hearing-aid-processed speech. Quality judgments in reverberant environments may yield important information with respect to hearing aid selection. In contrast, speech discrimination rankings in a nonreverberant environment appeared to be similar to the speech discrimination rankings obtained in the reverberant condition.
D000162:Acoustics; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004777:Environment; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests; D013067:Speech Perception