Clinical trials: Hearing in Noise, open to volunteers
Hearing Loss
AI Noise Reduction in Phonak Hearing Aids
The purpose of this study is to determine if artificial intelligence- based noise reduction can offer objective improvement in hearing and speech perception for hearing impaired patients.
- Trial name
- NCT06743295
- Testing
- DEEPSONIC™ Deep Sound Optimized Neural Integrated Chip Artificial intelligence-based noise reduction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 500 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Hearing, Healthy
Understanding Speech in Background Noise
The goal of this clinical trial is to establish how speech understanding is affected by background noise in people with normal hearing.
- Conditions
- Hearing, Healthy, Speech Perception
- Trial name
- NCT07822802
- Testing
- Speech filtering, Speech with background noise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Cochlear Hearing Loss
MeasurIng and Restoring Auditory Awareness for Cochlear Implant Listeners in noisE
The goal of this interventional study is to describe how people with cochlear implants perceive the perceive speech in noise and their sound environment on adults who are native French speakers with typical hearing or with…
- Trial name
- MIRACLE (NCT06420921)
- Testing
- Speech in noise comprehension test, Objective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise, Subjective tests of perception of ambient sound cues in noise
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Hearing Impaired (Partially)
A Treatment for a Form of Age-Related Central Auditory Processing Disorder Consisting of Clemastine Fumarate Plus Engineered Sound
The goal of this clinical trial is to determine the efficacy of Clemastine Fumarate in the presence of engineered sound to treat age-related central auditory processing disorder (CAPD).
- Conditions
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Hearing Impaired (Partially), Hearing, Hearing Abnormality
- Trial name
- CAPD-LOOT (NCT07304024)
- Testing
- Clemastine Fumarate Combined With Engineered Sound, Clemastine Fumarate Combined With Pink Noise
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 344 people
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Hearing
Investigating the Effect of Caffeine Consumption on Speech Understanding in Noise in Young Adults
Caffeine is a widely consumed substance worldwide and is often used to increase alertness and improve cognitive functions. Caffeine stimulates brain activity by binding to adenosine receptors, which increases alertness instead of…
- Trial name
- NCT06942117
- Testing
- Experimental
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Aydın University
Hearing Loss, Age-Related, Speech Intelligibility
Benefits of Choir for Older Adults With Unaddressed Hearing Loss (WP2)
Unaddressed age-related hearing loss is highly prevalent among older adults, typified by negative consequences for speech-in-noise perception and psychosocial wellbeing.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Age-Related, Speech Intelligibility, Psychosocial Functioning
- Trial name
- NCT06580847
- Testing
- Group Singing, Audiobook Club
- Where
- 7 sites in United States, Australia and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 210 people
- Sponsor
- Toronto Metropolitan University
Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Hearing Loss, Bilateral
Spatial Cues, Task Demands, and Auditory Selective Attention
Understanding speech in restaurants and other noisy environments is the most common complaint from the more than 60 million Americans with hearing impairment.
- Conditions
- Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Hearing Loss, Bilateral, Healthy
- Trial name
- NCT07765186
- Testing
- Existing bilateral cochlear implants, Normal Hearing Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of South Florida
Traumatic Brain Injury, Hearing Loss
Improving Speech in Noise Using Noninvasive Stimulation
Traumatic brain injury, a common injury in military service personnel, often leads to poor processing of speech in noisy environments.
- Trial name
- NCT07176936
- Testing
- Cymba Conchae stimulation, Earlobe stimulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Florida
Hearing Disorders and Deafness
ListenFuture-Listening for Their Future: Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adolescents
ListenFuture, a nation-wide multidisciplinary project, brings new knowledge on complex associations between listening, cognition, language, literacy, and psychosocial wellbeing in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) adolescents.
- Trial name
- ListenFuture (NCT07416292)
- Where
- 7 sites in Finland
- Volunteers
- 256 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Heikki Löppönen
Presbycusis
Hearing and Cognition in Aging Adults
This cohort study is expected to provide valuable insights into the complex interplay between auditory and cognitive functions and how they change over time.
- Trial name
- ACAV (NCT06183450)
- Testing
- auditory level, cognitive level, quality of life level
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 262 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Amnestic, Parkinson Disease (PD)
Early Stage of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases, HearIng Relevance (SAPHIR)
The study aims to phenotype hearing in patients with early stage of neurodegenerative disorders to explore the prevalence of various hearing disorders in comparison to a control population.
- Conditions
- Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) Amnestic, Parkinson Disease (PD), Healthy Participants
- Trial name
- SAPHIR (NCT07083089)
- Testing
- Thorough Hearing assessment
- Where
- 4 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 309 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cilcare SAS
Hidden Hearing Loss
Hidden Hearing Loss in Older Adults
The goal of this observational study is to investigate whether speech-in-noise perception deficits in older adults aged 60 years or older with objectively normal hearing thresholds are due to impaired ability of processing…
- Trial name
- NCT07646119
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Cochlear Implant, Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The Effect of Anatomy-based Fitting on the Perception of Speech in Noise and Music in Single-sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users
The present study evaluates the effect of anatomy-based fitting on speech perception in noise and music perception in newly implanted single-sided deaf (SSD) CI recipients.
- Conditions
- Cochlear Implant, Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Single Sided Deafness
- Trial name
- NCT07703800
- Testing
- Anatomy-based fitting, Default fitting
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Antwerp
Hearing Loss, Hearing Disorders in Children
Preschool Hearing Screening
Children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) are at risk of speech and language delays, which can be mitigated through early identification and intervention.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Hearing Disorders in Children, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, Hearing Loss, Conductive
- Trial name
- NCT06058767
- Testing
- Otoacoustic Emissions Testing, Pure Tone Audiometry
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 13,764 people
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Hearing Loss
Exploration of the Functional Effect of Different Hearing Aid Noise Reduction Algorithms in an Ecologically Valid Conversational Situation
A methodical evaluation of sound changing principles in CE-labelled Sonova brand hearing instruments (e.g. Phonak hearing instruments) is intended to be conducted on hearing impaired participants.
- Trial name
- NCT06992310
- Testing
- Hearing Aid with standard noise reduction (NR_1), Hearing Aid with NR_2, Hearing Aid with NR_3
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- Sebastian Griepentrog
Hearing Loss
Investigation of Sky Automatic Technologies in Pediatrics
The hypothesis of this research is that the AS Target setting provides the best estimate of the settings required to optimize listening in noise.
- Trial name
- SKY-MARVEL (NCT06400992)
- Testing
- Cochlear implant processor Sky CITM M90 (CI-5295), Hearing Aid, including sound processor Phonak: Sky Link M90, French simplified matrix test (FraSimat)
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Noise Exposure, Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced
A Multilevel Intervention to Prevent Noise Exposure in Farmworkers
This study will test a program to reduce noise exposure and prevent hearing loss among farmworkers. Farmworkers are often exposed to high levels of noise from machinery, which can lead to hearing loss over time.
- Conditions
- Noise Exposure, Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced, Occupational Exposure
- Trial name
- POP (NCT07554378)
- Testing
- Multilevel Hearing Protection Training
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Cochlear Implantation
Spatial Hearing Rehabilitation in Noise for Bilateral Cochlear Implant Children
In recent decades, there was a great expansion for bilateral cochlear implantation (bCI) in children, leading to an improvement of their quality of life.
- Trial name
- KidTrain (NCT06040892)
- Testing
- SPHERE protocol : Spatial hearing performances test, FRASIMAT Test : audiology test of speech in noise perception, Kid SSQ questionnaire of life : The Speech, Spatial and Other Qualities of Hearing Scale
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Severe to Profound Hearing Loss
Impact of Robotic Cochlear Implantation on Hearing Performance in Noise
The purpose of this study is to compare two methods of cochlear implantation : conventional manual insertion versus robot-assisted in order to verify whether robotic insertion provides better performance in the noisy environment.
- Trial name
- ROBOT-IC-BRUIT (NCT06248398)
- Testing
- Surgery with RobOtol®, Conventional manual surgery
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 140 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Occupational Noise Exposure
OCCUPATIONAL NOISE AND CHEMICAL EXPOSURE EFFECTS ON AUDITORY AND VESTIBULAR FUNCTION
This study aims to investigate the effects of occupational noise exposure on hearing and auditory functions among individuals working in noisy environments.
- Trial name
- NCT07806123
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ondokuz Mayıs University