Sentence examples for aids listeners from inspiring English sources
This suggests that, compared with omnidirectional mode, when using the directional mode of their hearing aids, listeners took less time to orient to nearby targets, but more time to orient to more distant targets.
They are useful aids for listeners who want to follow in outline a foreign-language play, but they do not erase the fact that direct verbal communication from actors to audience is impossible.
For small target angles, directional microphones aid the listener in initiating an orienting turn in the correct direction with a good estimate of the angle of the target sound.
It is unknown whether this pattern occurred by chance, given our small sample, or whether there are systematic differences in the directionality of hearing aids supplied to listeners with different levels of hearing impairment.
The present study addressed whether this kind of perceptual learning comes to the aid of a listener confronted with an unfamiliar foreign regional accent.
This is understandable given that this group was defined as those listeners whose hearing aids' directional mode was no more than 2 dB more directional than its omnidirectional mode (and for two participants, the omnidirectional mode was more directional in situ than the directional mode).
Listeners' comprehension is particularly aided when the information is difficult to code in language or relates to the relative position and size of objects (Beattie & Shovelton, 1999; Graham & Argyle, 1975).
The typical assumption is that a listener using directional hearing aids in a complex environment such as a restaurant will simply orient toward each signal of interest in turn.
Listeners used their own hearing-aid moulds.
Using KEMAR in measurements also avoids potentially loud intensity sound exposure to real listeners when an OTC hearing aid volume control is turned to a high output level or when feedback occurs.
Storytelling aids literacy, lateral thinking and creativity, often leaving listeners with a sense of well being.
