Reproducing Real-Life Listening Situations in the Laboratory for Testing Hearing Aids

Minnaar P, Albeck SF, Simonsen CS, Søndersted B, Oakley SAD, Bennedbæk J. Reproducing Real-Life Listening Situations in the Laboratory for Testing Hearing Aids. In: AES Convention 135. Audio Engineering Society; 2013. Paper 8951. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17001

@inproceedings{Minnaar2013_17001,
  author = {Minnaar, Pauli and Albeck, Signe Frølund and Simonsen, Christian Stender and Søndersted, Boris and Oakley, Sebastian Alex Dalgas and Bennedbæk, Jesper},
  title = {{Reproducing Real-Life Listening Situations in the Laboratory for Testing Hearing Aids}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 135},
  note = {Paper 8951},
  year = {2013},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17001}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Reproducing Real-Life Listening Situations in the Laboratory for Testing Hearing Aids
AU  - Minnaar, Pauli
AU  - Albeck, Signe Frølund
AU  - Simonsen, Christian Stender
AU  - Søndersted, Boris
AU  - Oakley, Sebastian Alex Dalgas
AU  - Bennedbæk, Jesper
T2  - AES Convention 135
M1  - Paper 8951
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013/10/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The main purpose of the current study was to demonstrate how a Virtual Sound Environment (VSE), consisting of 29 loudspeakers, can be used in the development of hearing aids. A listening test was done by recording everyday sound scenes with a spherical microphone array that has 32 microphone capsules. The playback in the VSE was implemented by convolving the recordings with inverse filters, which were derived by directly inverting a matrix of 928 measured transfer functions. While listening to 5 sound scenes, 10 hearing-impaired listeners could switch between hearing aid settings in real time, by interacting with a touch screen in a MUSHRA-like test. The setup proves to be very valuable for ensuring that hearing aid settings work well in real-world situations.
ER  -