Hearing Aid Performance Study for Different Spatial Configurations

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

44

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 21, 2022

Primary Completion Date

July 5, 2022

Study Completion Date

July 5, 2022

Conditions
Hearing Loss
Interventions
OTHER

Beamformer Benefit: Speech intelligibility and Listening effort

Confirm the improvement in terms of speech intelligibility (measured by OLSA, Oldenburg Sentence Test) and the reduction in terms of listening effort (measured by ACALES) of the I-BF (investigational Beamformer) compared to the R-BF (reference Beamformer), when speech is not coming from the front.

OTHER

Speech Enhancer benefit: Speech intelligibility, Listening effort and Subjective Speech intelligibility

"Confirm the improvement in terms of speech intelligibility (measured by Oldenburg Sentence test) and the reduction in terms of listening effort (measured by ACALES) when the Speech Enhancer is on (SE ON) compared to Speech Enhancer is off (SE OFF) for distant speech or speech from adjacent room.~Confirm the improvement in terms of subjective level to follow a conversation in quiet when SE ON compared to SE OFF for distant speech or speech from adjacent room. Measured by a subjective assessment."

OTHER

Hearing aid benefit: Speech intelligibility in noise (unaided vs aided condition)

Confirm the improvement in terms of speech intelligibility (measured by OLSA) in noise with the investigational device (aided condition) compared to the unaided condition.

OTHER

Hearing aid benefit: Speech intelligibility in noise (aided condition)

Confirm the improvement in terms of speech intelligibility (measured by OLSA) with the Reference binaural beamformer compared to the fixed directional.

Trial Locations (1)

26129

Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Sonova AG

INDUSTRY