Scoring speech audiometry
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorFiliep J. Vanpoucke
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Abstract
This application relates to audiometric testing techniques. An example implementation is based on audibly providing a target word to a user and receiving a response of what the user audibly perceived in text form. The text is then converted into phonemes and compared with phonemes of the target word. In many examples, the process is repeated for multiple target words. The resulting comparison data can be used to determine the user's ability to hear and can be the basis for one or more treatment actions if the results reveal the user may suffer from hearing loss. The treatment actions can include providing the user with a hearing device or modifying an existing hearing device of the user.
Claims20
A computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- select a target word from a plurality of words of an audiometric test;
- provide test audio of the target word being pronounced;
- obtain a user response as text data over a user interface;
- generate a user response phonetic representation of the text data;
- obtain a target word phonetic representation for the target word;
- compare the user response phonetic representation and the target word phonetic representation to obtain a distance between the user response phonetic representation and the target word phonetic representation;
- determine an ability of a user to hear based on the distance;
- and
- modify an auditory device of the user based on the determined ability of the user to hear.
A method comprising:
- providing, to a user, test audio that includes a target word being pronounced;
- obtaining a user response from the user;
- converting the user response into a user response phonetic representation;
- converting the target word into a target word phonetic representation;
- determining a distance between the user response phonetic representation and the target word phonetic representation;
- determining an ability of the user to hear based on the distance;
- and
- modifying an auditory device of the user based on the determined ability of the user to hear.
A system comprising:
- a text input component;
- a sound output component;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- provide, via the sound output component, test audio that includes a target word being pronounced;
- obtain text data from the text input component;
- generate a user response phonetic representation of the text data;
- obtain a target word phonetic representation for the target word;
- compare the user response phonetic representation and the target word phonetic representation to obtain a distance between the user response phonetic representation and the target word phonetic representation;
- determine an ability of a user to hear based on the distance;
- and
- modify an auditory device of the user based on the determined ability of the user to hear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.