Device, method, and program for adjustment of hearing aid

摘要

An adjustment device for a hearing aid includes: an audio extraction section for, through an acoustic process of a collected audio signal, utilizing information of a phoneme or syllable contained in the audio signal to output time information, the time information identifying a point of uttering the phoneme or syllable; an electroencephalogram measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a determination section for determining a difficulty of hearing of the phoneme or syllable by relying on an event-related potential in the electroencephalogram signal based on the identified point of uttering the phoneme or syllable as a starting point; a phoneme identification section for, when a plurality of phonemes or syllables are determined as difficult to hear, identifying a chronologically preceding phoneme or syllable among them to be difficult to hear; and a gain adjustment section for, with respect to the phoneme or syllable identified by the phoneme identification section, determining a gain adjustment method based on a type of the phoneme or syllable, and adjusting a gain for the phoneme or syllable in accordance with the determined gain adjustment method.

主权项

1. An adjustment device for a hearing aid, comprising:
an acoustic transducer section for collecting ambient sounds and outputting an audio signal; an audio extraction section for utilizing information of a phoneme or syllable contained in the audio signal to output time information, the time information identifying a point in time of uttering the phoneme or syllable; an electroencephalogram measurement section for measuring an electroencephalogram signal of a user; a hearing determination section for determining a difficulty of hearing of the phoneme or syllable by relying on an event-related potential based on the identified point of uttering the phoneme or syllable as a starting point, the event-related potential being acquired from the electroencephalogram signal measured by the electroencephalogram measurement section; a phoneme identification section for, when a plurality of phonemes or syllables are determined by the hearing determination section as difficult to hear, identifying a phoneme or syllable closest to a beginning among the plurality of phonemes or syllables to be difficult to hear; and a gain adjustment section for, with respect to the phoneme or syllable identified by the phoneme identification section, determining a gain adjustment method based on a type of the phoneme or syllable, and adjusting a gain of the outputted audio signal for the phoneme or syllable based on the determined gain adjustment method.