在噪音中临床改善语音感知,使用自动声音管理3.0
Andreas Büchner1, Tobias Rottmann1, Thomas Lenarz1
1Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Hearing research
|October 20, 2025
概括
新的自动声音管理3.0 (ASM 3.0) 显著提高了耳植入物用户在分离噪声中听到语音的能力. RONDO 3处理器的用户报告了高度满意和感知到的声音质量.
科学领域:
- 听力学和听力科学 听力学和听力科学
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 信号处理 信号处理
背景情况:
- 耳植入物 (CI) 用户在杂的环境中遇到语音感知困难.
- 现有的信号处理框架需要针对复杂的声学条件进行优化.
- 评估新的信号处理技术对于提高CI用户体验至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估新型自动声音管理3.0 (ASM 3.0) 信号处理框架对噪音中的语音感知的影响.
- 为了比较ASM 3.0的性能与其前身ASM 1.0.0.的性能.
- 用两个不同的音频处理器评估ASM 3.0的有效性:RONDO 3和SONNET 2.
主要方法:
- 20名经验丰富的耳植入物使用者参与了这项研究.
- 在噪音中的语音感知在两个条件下进行了测试:空间共定位 (S0N0) 和空间分离 (S0N±90N180) 噪音.
- 性能指标在ASM 3.0和ASM 1.0之间,以及在RONDO 3和SONNET 2处理器之间进行了比较;患者报告的结果也被收集到.
主要成果:
- 与ASM 1.0.0相比,ASM 3.0在RONDO 3 (4.1dB SRT80改进) 和SONNET 2 (4.4dB SRT80改进) 用户的空间分离噪声中显示了语音感知显著改善.
- 在与ASM 3.0和RONDO 3 (1.2dB SRT80改进) 相同位置的空间噪声中,没有观察到对语音感知的显著改善.
- RONDO 3用户表示对处理器的高满意度 (8.7/10) 和感知到的听力质量 (84.8/133 HISQUI19).
结论:
- 在复杂的,空间分离的噪音环境中,ASM 3.0为语音感知提供了实质性和临床上有意义的好处.
- 在空间同位的噪声条件下,ASM 3.0的好处不那么明显,而且在统计学上并不显著.
- 与ASM 3.0相结合的RONDO 3音频处理器在日常使用中提供了高水平的用户满意度和感知到的声音质量.
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