Assessment of Novel Sound Changing Principles in Hearing Instruments to Determine Their Application - 2018_16

Each participant will be fitted with the Noise Reduction (NR) and Beamforming (BF) disabled. Disabled means that no sound processing algorithm that removes noise from the speech signal is active.

Each participant will be fitted with the Noise Reduction (NR)(Sound Changing) program on the same hearing aid. Noise Reduction principle is a sound processing algorithm to remove noise from a speech signal to improve the speech intelligibility and comfort. The Noise Reduction is working spatially independent.

Each participant will be fitted with a beam forming program on the same hearing aid. Beam forming (BF) principle is a sound processing algorithm to remove noise from certain directions to improve the speech intelligibility and comfort.