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  • Title: Relationship between listening difficulty rating and objective measures in reverberant and noisy sound fields for young adults and elderly persons.
    Author: Sato H, Morimoto M, Wada M.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 2012 Jun; 131(6):4596-605. PubMed ID: 22712933.
    Abstract:
    Listening difficulty ratings [Morimoto et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 1607-1613 (2004)] were obtained for 20 young adult listeners and 34 elderly listeners in reverberant and noisy sound fields simulated in an anechoic room. The listening difficulty ratings were compared with acoustical objective measures. The results and analyses showed the following: (i) The correlation between listening difficulty ratings and the revised speech transmission index (STI(r)), and that for the useful-detrimental ratio (U(50)) were high, regardless of the age of the listeners. (ii) STI(r) and U(50) need to be increased by 0.12 and 4.2 dB, respectively, to equalize the listening difficulty ratings for the elderly listeners with those for the young listeners. (iii) The estimation accuracies for STI(r) and U(50) can be improved by calculating them with the L(eq) of background noise linearly increased by 4 to 10 dB, which depends on the age of the listeners and the objective measures. However, the improvement was not statistically significant for the elderly listeners.
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