Patent ID: 8844358
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: A61B,H04R

Abstract:
1. A method for testing hearing of a person, which comprises the steps of: a) providing a hearing-test application on a network-accessible computer; b) calling the hearing-test application by the person via a network by means of a personal computer of the person; c) selecting and presenting an acoustic speech signal in a form of at least one meaningless syllable and superposing a fluctuating interference signal onto the acoustic speech signal presented, the acoustic speech signal being presented in a region of a minimum of the fluctuating interference signal; d) presenting the meaningless syllable and a number of additional meaningless syllables on a graphical user interface of the personal computer; e) selecting, via the person, a heard meaningless syllable from displayed meaningless syllables; f) evaluating a selection that was made; and g) repeating the method steps c) to f) until an interrupt criterion is satisfied.