Speech Locator In-car Performance Evaluation

Speech Locator In-car Performance Evaluation

Listeners will conduct sound quality ratings of recordings talkers in a moving car processed using three different microphone processing strategies: an investigational adaptive directional microphone, an omnidirectional microphone and a fixed directional microphone. Participants will listen to the recordings streamed via commercially-available and individually-prescribed hearing aids, and conduct ratings onsite in the lab. The procedure will involve a training session and within-subject repeated measures. Stimuli will be randomized.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adults (18-99 years) with ≥3 months hearing aid experience
• binaural, symmetric, sensorineural N2 (mild) to N5 (severe) hearing loss
• fluent in English

Exclusion Criteria:

• children/teenagers
• normal hearing or hearing loss exceeding N5 (severe) by 10 dB