Sound Advice: A Consumer's Perspective on Navigating the World of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

Abstract

This article describes the breadth of experiences associated with pursuing commercially available over-the-counter hearing aids (OTC-HAs). Dr. Katz behaved as a consumer pursuing various OTC-HAs. This activity was part of a larger project aimed at identifying overarching consumer listening goals, creating metrics to assess consumer-identified desired usability, features, and performance, and designing a consumer-friendly web-based application to support thoughtful hearing self-care. Additionally, we provide a review of the aims of the larger project to set the context for this work.

Keywords

over-the-counter hearing aids - amplification - natural language processing - artificial intelligence - large language model

Publikationsverlauf

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
01. April 2025

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