• DocumentCode
    3143364
  • Title

    Annoyance perception and modeling for hearing-impaired listeners

  • Author

    Vishnubhotla, Srikanth ; Xiao, Jinjun ; Xu, Buye ; McKinney, Martin ; Zhang, Tao

  • Author_Institution
    Starkey Labs., Inc., Eden Prairie, NC, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    25-30 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    161
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    Perceptual annoyance of environmental sounds is measured for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners under iso-level and iso-loudness conditions. Data from the hearing-impaired listeners shows similar trends to that from normal-hearing listeners, but with greater variability across individuals. A regression model based on the statistics of specific loudness and other perceptual features is fit to the data from the normal-hearing listeners, and is used to predict annoyance for the hearing-impaired listeners. Differences across the subject populations are discussed.
  • Keywords
    hearing aids; regression analysis; annoyance perception; environmental sounds; hearing-impaired listeners; iso-level; iso-loudness conditions; normal-hearing listeners; regression model; Data models; Modulation; Noise; Predictive models; Psychoacoustic models; Resonant frequency; Psycho-acoustic annoyance; hearing aids; hearing impaired; modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0045-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1520-6149
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6287842
  • Filename
    6287842