Considerations for the Development and Fitting of Hearing-Aids for Auditory-Visual Communication

10/1/1998

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Considerations for the Development and Fitting of Hearing-Aids for Auditory-Visual Communication

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Auditory-Visual Listening Environments

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If we improve auditory-only speech recognition, do we necessarily improve auditory-visual speech recognition?

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What speech information is provided by speechreading?

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HYPOTHESIS: The amount of benefit obtained from the combination of visual and auditory speech cues depends of the degree of redundancy between the two modalities. 

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What speech information is provided by hearing aids?

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To what extent is the information provided by speechreading and by hearing aids redundant?

What frequency regions best convey information that is complementary to speechreading?

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SUMMARY

Recommendations for designing hearing aids for Auditory-Visual speech communication

Acknowledgement

Author: Army Audiology & Speech Center 

Email: grant@tidalwave.net

Home Page: http://www.avspeechlab.com

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