Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users

The paper presents the results of sentence and logatome speech intelligibility measured in rooms with induction loop for hearing aid users. Two rooms with different acoustic parameters were chosen. Twenty two subjects with mild, moderate and severe hearing impairment using hearing aids took part in...

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Main Authors: Jedrzej KOCIŃSKI, Edward OZIMEK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2015-01-01
Series:Archives of Acoustics
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/621
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description The paper presents the results of sentence and logatome speech intelligibility measured in rooms with induction loop for hearing aid users. Two rooms with different acoustic parameters were chosen. Twenty two subjects with mild, moderate and severe hearing impairment using hearing aids took part in the experiment. The intelligibility tests composed of sentences or logatomes were presented to the subjects at fixed measurement points of an enclosure. It was shown that a sentence test is more useful tool for speech intelligibility measurements in a room than logatome test. It was also shown that induction loop is very efficient system at improving speech intelligibility. Additionally, the questionnaire data showed that induction loop, apart from improving speech intelligibility, increased a subject’s general satisfaction with speech perception.
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spelling doaj-art-589f3fee5b6548ddaab2fdcc15d39a1e2025-08-20T03:25:26ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2015-01-0140110.1515/aoa-2015-0007Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid UsersJedrzej KOCIŃSKI0Edward OZIMEK1Institute of Acoustics, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska 85, 61-614 PoznańAdam Mickiewicz University in PoznańThe paper presents the results of sentence and logatome speech intelligibility measured in rooms with induction loop for hearing aid users. Two rooms with different acoustic parameters were chosen. Twenty two subjects with mild, moderate and severe hearing impairment using hearing aids took part in the experiment. The intelligibility tests composed of sentences or logatomes were presented to the subjects at fixed measurement points of an enclosure. It was shown that a sentence test is more useful tool for speech intelligibility measurements in a room than logatome test. It was also shown that induction loop is very efficient system at improving speech intelligibility. Additionally, the questionnaire data showed that induction loop, apart from improving speech intelligibility, increased a subject’s general satisfaction with speech perception.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/621speech intelligibilityinduction loophearing impairmentspeech enhancement.
spellingShingle Jedrzej KOCIŃSKI
Edward OZIMEK
Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
Archives of Acoustics
speech intelligibility
induction loop
hearing impairment
speech enhancement.
title Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
title_full Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
title_fullStr Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
title_full_unstemmed Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
title_short Speech Intelligibility in Rooms with and without an Induction Loop for Hearing Aid Users
title_sort speech intelligibility in rooms with and without an induction loop for hearing aid users
topic speech intelligibility
induction loop
hearing impairment
speech enhancement.
url https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/621
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