How Accurate are Environmental Classifiers in Hearing Aids?

All modern hearing aids with any kind of automatic functionality use analysis of the acoustic environment. The most basic is the compression system, which uses level detectors to determine how much gain should be applied to the input signal according to the amplification scheme. However, when speaking of environmental classification, what we usually mean is the system by which the hearing aid decides what sort of listening situation it is in.

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