Mobile device based techniques for detection and prevention of hearing loss

One or more non-transitory computer readable storage mediums comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• obtain hearing loss indicator data associated with one or more devices of a user, the hearing loss indicator data including one or more of ambient sound characteristics, a volume level of user speech, and a user volume setting of the one or more devices;
• obtain context data associated with use of the one or more devices by the user;
• perform statistical analysis of the hearing loss indicator data and the context data to group the hearing loss indicator data into clusters associated with contexts for the user;
• identify trends in the hearing loss indicator data for respective ones of the clusters over a period of time;
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• estimate hearing loss of the user for respective ones of the clusters over the period of time based on the identified trends.

A system for detection of hearing loss of a user, the system comprising:

• a device interface circuit to receive (a) hearing loss indicator data associated with the user from one or more devices of the user, the hearing loss indicator data including one or more of ambient sound characteristics, user speech volume level, user volume setting of the device, estimated word rate of the user speech, or a count of requests by the user for repetition of speech from another party, and (b) context data associated with use of the devices by the user;
• a context cluster generation circuit to perform statistical analysis of the hearing loss indicator data and the context data to group the hearing loss indicator data into clusters associated with contexts for the user;
• a trend identification circuit to identify trends in the hearing loss indicator data for respective ones of the generated clusters over a period of time;
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• a hearing loss estimation circuit to estimate the hearing loss of the user for the respective ones of the clusters over the period of time based on the identified trends.