Subject: Re: standards of speech intelligibilty for the hearing impaired? From: Stefanie Kruck <kruck.stefanie@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:44:10 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>That is very interesting to "hear" about. Since I am searching since years for hearing aids and fitting just fails. I am expecting that it is dependend on the temporal delay of the processing of digital aids? Since the intelligibility is most often very high in the beginning of wearing a new aid, but dissapears after about two hours. Recently I would like to test the synchronisation ability of my hearing. In case you are having any further information of how to solve the problem, I would be very thankful in finding back to easy listening. Yours sincerely Stefanie Richard F. Lyon schrieb: > Last night in his presidential lecture "Using Psychoacoustics to > Explore Cochlear Function: Basic Mechanisms and Applications to > Hearing Aids" at the ARO meeting in Phoenix where he got the big > award, BCJ Moore summarized a lot of very interesting stuff that's > been learned over the years about various forms of hearing > impairment. It's not well understood at all, but some impaired > listeners seem to lose the ability to access temporal fine structure > (TFS), while others are less impaired in this regard. The ones who > lose access to TFS seem also to be worse at listening "in the gaps" in > fluctuating interference. > > My impression, however, is that if one knew enough characterization of > an individual's loss, then one would have a hope of modeling it in a > way that would lead to intelligibility loss predictions. But it's > more complicated than something that's likely to be a standard method > any time soon. > > Moore has developed some testing techniques that can identify > different types of loss; he talked especially about identifying "dead > regions" (IHC function loss) in the cochlea, and the kinds of > processing strategies that helped or didn't in such cases. You can't > get there with the simple acoustic measurements (tone thresholds) that > audiologists typically rely on. > > This is not my specialty; forgive me if I've over-simplified or > mangled what I heard. > > Dick > > > At 4:46 PM -0800 2/20/08, Chuping Liu wrote: >> Dear List, >> >> I wonder if there are standards describing speech >> intelligibility for the hearing impaired from acoustic >> measurement? If yes, what are they? If no, what make >> such a standard impossible? >> >> Thanks, >> Chuping >> >> ************************************** >> "Everyone deserves a chance to fly." >> --Wicked The Musical >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> >> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >