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  • Title: Effect on the speech reception threshold in noise of the recovery time of the compressor in the high-frequency channel of a two-channel aid.
    Author: Moore BC, Glasberg BR, Stone MA.
    Journal: Scand Audiol Suppl; 1993; 38():82-91. PubMed ID: 8153569.
    Abstract:
    This paper describes two experiments in a series evaluating and optimising a hearing aid incorporating two forms of automatic gain control (AGC). The first form is a front-end AGC which is normally slow acting and which compensates for variations in the overall level of speech from one situation to another. The second form of AGC follows the front-end AGC. The signal is split into two frequency bands, and fast-acting AGC is applied in the upper band only. The bands are then recombined. The two experiments described here were aimed at determining the optimum value of the recovery time of the AGC in the high-frequency channel. Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured in the presence of speech-shaped noise as a function of the recovery time, for subjects with mild-to-moderate sensorineural loss. In the first experiment the recovery time was varied over the range 10-80 ms. SRTs tended to be lowest (best) at the shorter recovery times but the effects were small. In the second experiment, the recovery time was varied over the range 5-320 ms. In this case, there was a clear trend for SRTs to increase with increasing recovery time. A recovery time of about 20 ms appears to be optimal.
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