Speech discrimination and dynamic compression. A comparative study with hearing aids (author's transl)]

A hearing aid with dynamic compression and the very same one without dynamic compression were used for an examination of 13 patients with recruitment who were hard of hearing with respect to sound perception. The maximum degree of speech discrimination possible to be reached was determined. Although in general the hearing aid with dynamic compression yielded better results, the differences between the two aids were, however, small and showed a high scattering range. Thus, we have to draw the conclusion that the lacking 100% speech discrimination in the case of recruitment-positive disorders with respect to sound perception is not due to distorted sound volume dynamics.