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Introduction: The main complaint of the elderly population with high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss is related to the difficulty in understanding speech both in quiet and noise environment. The nonlinear compression frequency algorithm came to solve this problem. Objective: This study aims to compare the perception and performance of elderly...
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PURPOSE:
to evaluate and compare the performance of elderly people with and without cochlear dead regions in speech recognition tests, in silence and in noise, using hearing aids with and without the activation of the nonlinear frequency compression algorithm.
METHODS:
38 elderly people with mild to moderate hearing loss and descending configurati...
Objective: Previous studies have already documented improved speech intelligibility and music performance with the use of Nonlinear Frequency Compression (NFC) but as it is widely acknowledged that hearing aid users may gain increasing benefit with longer experience it is interesting to look into long-term effects of this technology. Speech percept...