Psychoacoustics of normal and impaired hearing and applications to hearing aid design and fitting

正常和听力受损的心理声学及其在助听器设计和验配中的应用

• 批准号: G0701870/1
• 负责人: Brian Moore
• 金额: $ 252.15万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=G0701870%2F1
• 关键词: Psychoacoustics; normal; impaired; hearing; applications

In recent years many improvements have been made in the quality of hearing aids provided to hearing-impaired people. The majority of hearing-impaired people are now being fitted with digital hearing aids that offer great flexibility for tailoring the sound to best fit the residual hearing capacity of the person. However, even the best current hearing aids do not restore auditory perception to normal, and many users of hearing aids complain of difficulty in understanding speech, especially in noisy situations. Our goal is to make hearing aids work more effectively for hearing-impaired people, who constitute approximately 7% of the population in the UK. We also aim to develop ways of fitting hearing aids more effectively, so as to optimise the benefit to each individual.

近年来，为听障人士提供的助听器的质量有了许多改进。大多数听力受损的人现在都配备了数字助听器，它提供了很大的灵活性来定制声音，以最适合人的残余听力能力。然而，即使是目前最好的助听器也不能使听觉恢复正常，许多助听器使用者抱怨难以理解言语，特别是在嘈杂的情况下。我们的目标是让助听器更有效地为听力受损的人工作，他们约占英国人口的7%。我们亦致力发展更有效验配助听器的方法，使每个人的得益最大化。