IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2013 May;17(3):526-9. doi: 10.1109/jbhi.2013.2238549.
Phonemes provide an interesting alternative to pure tones in hearing tests.We propose a new smartphone-based method for self-hearing assessment using the four Korean phonemes which are similar to the English phonemes /a/, /i/, /sh/, and /s/. We conducted tests on 15 subjects diagnosed with mild to severe hearing loss and estimated their conventional pure-tone hearing thresholds from their phoneme hearing thresholds using regression analysis. The phoneme-based self-hearing assessment was found to be sufficiently reliable in estimating the hearing thresholds of hearing impaired subjects. The difference between the hearing thresholds obtained through conventional pure-tone audiometry and those obtained using our method was 5.6 dB HL on average. The proposed hearing assessment was able to significantly reduce the mean test time compared to conventional pure-tone audiometry.
音位为听力测试提供了一种有趣的选择，与纯音不同。我们提出了一种新的基于智能手机的自我听力评估方法，使用与英语音位 /a/、/i/、/sh/和/s/相似的四个韩国音位。我们对 15 名被诊断为轻度至重度听力损失的受试者进行了测试，并使用回归分析根据他们的音位听力阈值估算他们的传统纯音听力阈值。基于音位的自我听力评估在估计听力受损受试者的听力阈值方面具有足够的可靠性。通过常规纯音测听获得的听力阈值与通过我们的方法获得的听力阈值之间的差异平均为 5.6 dB HL。与传统纯音测听相比，所提出的听力评估能够显著缩短平均测试时间。
