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ArticlePloS one2025

Binaural speech intelligibility for combinations of noise, reverberation, and hearing-aid signal processing.

James M Kates, Mathieu Lavandier, Ramesh Kumar Muralimanohar, Emily M H Lundberg, Kathryn H Arehart

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James M KatesDeptartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Mathieu LavandierENPTE, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, CNRS, LTDS, UMR5513, Vaulx-en-Velin, France.
Ramesh Kumar MuralimanoharDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9440-7888
Emily M H LundbergDeptartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Kathryn H ArehartDeptartment of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5767-6584

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Abstract

Binaural speech intelligibility in rooms is a complex process that is affected by many factors including room acoustics, hearing loss, and hearing aid (HA) signal processing. Intelligibility is evaluated in this paper for a simulated room combined with a simulated hearing aid. The test conditions comprise three spatial configurations of the speech and noise sources, simulated anechoic and concert hall acoustics, three amounts of multitalker babble interference, the hearing status of the listeners, and three degrees of simulated HA processing provided to compensate for the noise and/or hearing loss. The impact of these factors and their interactions is considered for normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners for sentence stimuli. Both listener groups showed a significant reduction in intelligibility as the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decreased, and showed a reduction in intelligibility in reverberation when compared to anechoic listening. There was no significant improvement in intelligibility for the NH group for the noise suppression algorithm used here, and no significant improvement in intelligibility for the HI group for more advanced HA processing algorithms as opposed to linear amplification in either of the two acoustic spaces or at any of the three SNRs.

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Hearing AidsNoiseSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedSpeech IntelligibilitySpeech PerceptionAcoustic StimulationAdultAgedAlgorithmsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSignal-To-Noise Ratio

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PMID39813264
PMCPMC11734965

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