3 IO. R 0 C Ahsn-oct-Speech perception is crucial Tor users using hearing aids. The performance of hearing aids i s degraded with respect to the sensorineural hearing loss. This factor leads to decrease the speech discrimination in syllable or phoneme recognition. I n the clinical protocol, pure tone audiometn (PTA) and speech reception threshold (SRT) i s adopted to assess the hearing loss. n e clinician subjectively utilizes this information to fit the hearing aids. But, this approach is hard to perform a lot various kinds oierperiments, and even worse. their responses are not reliable from time to time. I n this paper, a novel objective assessment mechanism was proposed to explore the effect of speech discrimination A robust continuous phoneme recognizer and a statistical testing method tiere developed to provide more quantitative and objective information. This study makes benefits for the design and fitting of hearing aids.
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