Children are more impaired than adults by unfavorable listening conditions such as reverberation and noise. Nevertheless, the acoustical conditions in classrooms often do not fit the specific needs of young listeners. This field study aimed to analyze effects of classroom reverberation on reading abilities, annoyance due to indoor noise, and school attitudes in second graders. Performance and q...

Speech intelligibility is an important factor for successful speech communication in today’s society. So-called near-end listening enhancement (NELE) algorithms aim at improving speech intelligibility in conditions where the (clean) speech signal is accessible and can be modified prior to its presentation. However, many of these algorithms only consider the detrimental effect of noise and disre...

The indoor acoustic environment is very important for auditory learning, and the completion of various learning tasks cannot be separated from sustained attention. Noise reverberation time (RT) are two most common indicators that affect Based on this, experiments attention under factors noise masking effect alone were conducted in an anechoic chamber a chamber, respectively. In addition, nine k...

Cochlear implants are neural prostheses which give a sense of hearing to deaf people by stimulating the auditory nerve. In many users they restore the ability to understand speech in quiet, but noise and reverberation cause severe problems. It seems that implant users have difficulties hearing out one source in a potpourri of sources. This so called “auditory scene analysis” relies, amongst oth...