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.
Authors:
Minnaar, Pauli; Albeck, Signe Frølund; Simonsen, Christian Stender; Søndersted, Boris; Oakley, Sebastian Alex Dalgas; Bennedbæk, Jesper
Affiliation:
Oticon A/S, Smørum, Denmark
AES Convention:
135 (October 2013)
Paper Number:
8951
Publication Date:
October 16, 2013
Subject:
Spatial Audio
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