Text transcriptions of the spoken word can benefit deaf people and also anyone who needs to review what has been said (e.g. at lectures, presentations, meetings etc.) Real time captioning (i.e. creating a live verbatim transcript of what is being spoken) using phonetic keyboards can provide an accurate live transcription for deaf people but is often not available because of the cost and shortag...

Larson et al (2000) reported the findings of a multicenter, NIDCDNA clinical trial that compared hearing aid performance for three output limiting circuits in 360 adults with symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss. The current study was undertaken to examine long-term hearing aid benefit in this same group of participants following five to six years of hearing aid use. The speech-recognition po...

Background: sensorineural hearing impaired individuals benefit themselves with the use of nonlinear amplification, once the compression tries to reestablish the sensation of normal loudness. However, the literature is still controversial in relation to the benefits for speech recognition in users of linear and nonlinear hearing aids. Aim: for this reason, the purpose of this study was to compar...