[Automatic hearing screening for better monitoring of hearing health using the example of the German armed forces].

In the present study, the concept of a systematic automated screening of temporary soldiers was evaluated based on the example of the ENT Department of the Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz. From 2014 to 2017, anonymized data of 169 individuals were collected from the setting of the Bundeswehr Central Hospital. Included in the data are results from measurements with automated pure-tone audiometry (APTA; e.

Development and evaluation of video recordings for the OLSA matrix sentence test.

Objective: The aim was to create and validate an audiovisual version of the German matrix sentence test (MST), which uses the existing audio-only speech material.

Design: Video recordings were recorded and dubbed with the audio of the existing German MST. The current study evaluates the MST in conditions including audio and visual modalities, speech in quiet and noise, and open and closed-set response formats.

The Finnish simplified matrix sentence test for the assessment of speech intelligibility in the elderly.

A simplified version of the Finnish matrix sentence test (FMST) was developed to improve the reliability of hearing diagnostic for children and for patients with limited working memory capacity and/or vocabulary. Study 1 evaluated the word matrix of the Finnish simplified matrix sentence test (FINSIMAT) to rule out systematic differences between the new FINSIMAT test lists, and to provide reference values for normal-hearing (NH) young adults (YA). In Study 2, the FINSIMAT and the FMST were evaluated in elderly listeners with mild-to-moderate hearing impairment (HI).

Relation Between Listening Effort and Speech Intelligibility in Noise.

Purpose: Subjective ratings of listening effort might be applicable to estimate hearing difficulties at positive signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) at which speech intelligibility scores are near 100%. Hence, ratings of listening effort were compared with speech intelligibility scores at different SNRs, and the benefit of hearing aids was evaluated.

Method: Two groups of listeners, 1 with normal hearing and 1 with hearing impairment, performed adaptive speech intelligibility and adaptive listening effort tests (Adaptive Categorical Listening Effort Scaling; Krueger, Schulte, Brand, & Holube, 2017) with sentences of the Oldenburg Sentence Test (Wagener, Brand, & Kollmeier, 1999a, 1999b; Wagener, Kühnel, & Kollmeier, 1999) in 4 different maskers.

Diagnosing and Screening in a Minority Language: A Validation Study.

Purpose: The Turkish Digit Triplet Test for hearing self-screening purposes and the Turkish Matrix Test (TURMatrix) for follow-up hearing diagnostics offer an automated closed-set response format where patients respond by choosing from response alternatives. Their applicability for testing Turkish-speaking patients in their native language by German audiologists with different Turkish language skills was investigated.

Method: Tests were composed of spoken numbers (Turkish Digit Triplet Test) or sentences (TURMatrix).