Requirements for Mass Adoption of Assistive Listening Technology by the General Public
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| author | Kaufmann, Thomas B. Foroogozar, Mehdi Liss, Julie Berisha, Visar |
| author_facet | Kaufmann, Thomas B. Foroogozar, Mehdi Liss, Julie Berisha, Visar |
| contents | Assistive listening systems (ALSs) dramatically increase speech intelligibility and reduce listening effort. It is very likely that essentially everyone, not only individuals with hearing loss, would benefit from the increased signal-to-noise ratio an ALS provides in almost any listening scenario. However, ALSs are rarely used by anyone other than people with severe to profound hearing losses. To date, the reasons for this poor adoption have not been systematically investigated.
The authors hypothesize that the reasons for poor adoption of assistive listening technology include (1) an inability to use personally owned receiving devices, (2) a lack of high-fidelity stereo sound, (3) receiving devices not providing an unoccluded listening experience, (4) distortion from alignment delay and (5) a lack of automatic connectivity to an available assistive listening audio signal.
We propose solutions to each of these problems in an effort to pave the way for mass adoption of assistive listening technology by the general public. |
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| spellingShingle | Requirements for Mass Adoption of Assistive Listening Technology by the General Public Kaufmann, Thomas B. Foroogozar, Mehdi Liss, Julie Berisha, Visar Audio and Speech Processing Sound Assistive listening systems (ALSs) dramatically increase speech intelligibility and reduce listening effort. It is very likely that essentially everyone, not only individuals with hearing loss, would benefit from the increased signal-to-noise ratio an ALS provides in almost any listening scenario. However, ALSs are rarely used by anyone other than people with severe to profound hearing losses. To date, the reasons for this poor adoption have not been systematically investigated. The authors hypothesize that the reasons for poor adoption of assistive listening technology include (1) an inability to use personally owned receiving devices, (2) a lack of high-fidelity stereo sound, (3) receiving devices not providing an unoccluded listening experience, (4) distortion from alignment delay and (5) a lack of automatic connectivity to an available assistive listening audio signal. We propose solutions to each of these problems in an effort to pave the way for mass adoption of assistive listening technology by the general public. |
| title | Requirements for Mass Adoption of Assistive Listening Technology by the General Public |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02523 |