Smartphone-based self hearing assessment using phonemes

Phonemes provide an interesting alternative to pure tones in hearing tests. We propose a new smartphone-based method for self hearing assessment using the four Korean phonemes which are similar to the English phonemes /a/,/i/,/sh/, and/s/, respectively. We conducted tests on 15 subjects diagnosed wi...

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Published in2013 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) pp. 356 - 357
Main Authors Min Choi, Jong, Sohn, Junil, Ku, Yunseo, Kim, Dongwook
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.01.2013
Subjects
Assessments
Audiometry
Auditory system
Codecs
Conferences
Consumption
Ear
Frequency estimation
Hearing
Noise levels
Phonemes
Smart phones
Thresholds
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Summary:Phonemes provide an interesting alternative to pure tones in hearing tests. We propose a new smartphone-based method for self hearing assessment using the four Korean phonemes which are similar to the English phonemes /a/,/i/,/sh/, and/s/, respectively. We conducted tests on 15 subjects diagnosed with mild to severe hearing loss and estimated their conventional pure tone hearing thresholds from their phoneme hearing thresholds using regression analysis. The phoneme-based self hearing assessment (PhoSHA) was found to be sufficiently reliable in estimating the hearing thresholds of hearing-impaired subjects. The difference between the hearing thresholds obtained through conventional pure tone audiometry and those obtained using our method was 5.6 dB HL on average. The proposed hearing assessment was able to significantly reduce the mean test time compared to conventional pure tone audiometry.
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ISBN:1467313610
9781467313612
ISSN:2158-3994
DOI:10.1109/ICCE.2013.6486927