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Dear Ross,
I suggest you look at this very interesting project:
http://musicandhearingaids.org/
in particular at their "resources" section (http://musicandhearingaids.org/resources/), where you can find some guidelines for hearing aids users and audiologists about music programs for the hearing aids.
Within the 3D Tune-In project (http://3d-tune-in.eu/) we developed a web-based application called Musiclarity, an interactive music listening service dedicated to improving the sound of music for hearing aid users. You can access it at the following link:
I hope this helps!
-- Dr Lorenzo Picinali Senior Lecturer in Audio Experience Design Director of Undergraduate Studies Dyson School of Design Engineering Imperial College London Dyson Building Imperial College Road South Kensington, SW7 2DB, London T: 0044 (0)20 7594 8158 E: l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/l.picinali www.imperial.ac.uk/design-engineering-school From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Ross Alexander Hendler <rah232@xxxxxxx>
Sent: 20 July 2018 03:51:15 To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AUDITORY] Music specific hearing loss Dear Colleagues,
I have a good friend who has moderate to severe hearing loss and although she can hear speech pretty well, thanks to her digital hearing aids, she is having big issues with hearing music. She claims that music sounds flat and distorted and that she can't
hear melodies.
She feels that part of the problem may have to do with bandwidth as hearing aids are designed for speech. She also says that if a piece of music is in a certain key such as C she will hear it as a Bb.
As a music lover this has become a big issue for her and I wanted to see if anyone might have any ideas or any engineers I might be able to refer her to.
Regards,
Ross
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