Systems and methods for fitting hearing aids

A system for configuring a hearing aid device comprising:

• a) a sound database comprising a plurality of sound files, each sound file comprising a digital representation of a spoken language passage;
• b) a sound processing device configured to generate processed stimuli for playing to a user, the processed stimuli based on one or more sound files and one or more sound processing parameter settings;
• c) a database comprising vector quantized hearing loss characteristics across a range of auditory frequencies, the vector quantized hearing loss characteristics organized according to coarse hearing loss level and hearing loss shape;
• d) at least one memory storing instructions;
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• e) at least one processor being configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• i) automatically selecting a sound file from the sound database;
• ii) automatically processing the sound file with a first set of sound processing parameter settings to generate two distinct processed coarse stimuli through employment of the sound processing device;
• iii) automatically playing the two distinct processed coarse stimuli to a user;
• iv) automatically recording a preferred coarse setting by the user;
• v) automatically processing the sound file with a second set of sound processing parameter settings to generate two distinct processed hearing loss shape stimuli through employment of the sound processing device;
• vi) automatically playing the two distinct processed hearing loss shape stimuli to the user;
• vii) automatically recording a preferred hearing loss shape setting by the user;
• viii) automatically processing the sound file with a third set of sound processing parameter settings to generate two distinct processed fine resolution stimuli with a hearing loss shape through employment of the sound processing device;
• ix) automatically playing the two distinct processed fine resolution stimuli with the hearing loss shape to the user;
• x) automatically recording a preferred fine resolution setting for the hearing loss shape by the user;
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• xi) automatically determining hearing aid parameter settings for the user based on the fine resolution setting.