With the press of a tiny button on the aid, sound comes through to people with impaired hearing with even greater clarity than can be heard by someone with normal hearing.
Sandwiched between a Nandos and a run of 24-hour supermarkets, it's a delightfully baroque old hall, with ridiculously high ceilings to aid sound clarity, and a separate bar to keep the natterers out of earshot.
In order to aid sound design by quickly identifying regions of basic events in a large audio file, we apply the SVM classifier to fixed-size windows taken from the input sound and grouping consecutive windows of the same class into segments.
Perceived continuity not only allows listeners to keep better track of sounds as they unfold over time, but can also aid sound recognition, as in the case of speech in noise [6], [7].
The probable reason for this difference is suggested by the aided sound field thresholds in Figure 5.
However, aided sound field threshold shows smaller differences and aided speech understanding in quiet and in noise does not differ significantly between the two transmission paths.
Four different measurements were performed: bone conduction thresholds directly through the sound processor (BC Direct), aided sound field thresholds, aided speech understanding in quiet, and aided speech understanding in noise.
However, aided sound field hearing thresholds show that a substantial part of this attenuation, mainly in the frequency range up to 3000 Hz, can be compensated by the individual fitting of the sound processor.
No significant difference between the two magnets (3 and 5) was found in any of the tests (BC Direct, aided sound field thresholds, speech understanding in quiet, and speech understanding in noise; Figures 4 to 7).
For each of the 4 measurements (BC Direct, aided sound field thresholds, speech in quiet, and speech in noise), the difference between the "Abutment" and the "Magnet 3" setting was analyzed.
