System and method for audiometric assessment and user-specific audio enhancement

A system for audiometric assessment and user-specific acoustic enhancement, comprising:

• an audiometry management module;
• a tone generator coupled to the audiometry management module and adapted to generate streams of acoustical output;
• a hearing profile data file;
• and
• a custom equalizer module adapted to modify an incoming audio stream by adjusting at least a plurality of the frequency components of the audio stream based on data stored in the custom hearing profile data file;
• wherein the audiometry management module, in a plurality of sessions, instructs the tone generator to send a series of streams of acoustical output of varying acoustical intensity;
• wherein, on receiving a series of user responses responsive to audible perception of sounds generated from the streams of acoustical data, the audiometric management module determines, for each of a plurality of frequencies, a hearing threshold, and stores at least that threshold in the hearing profile data file;
• and
• further wherein, on measuring acoustical response to a given frequency for a given user during two or more sessions conducted at different times, the hearing threshold stored in the hearing profile data file is modified based at least in part on a time series derived from measurements of the given frequency during each of the two or more sessions.