To enable reliable smartphone-based hearing assessments by developing methods to estimate device calibration offsets using categorical loudness scaling (CLS).
✦ Clinical Takeaway ✦
No actionable change yet; this is a methods-development study that may eventually improve the reliability of smartphone-based hearing screening, but findings require further validation before influencing clinical practice.
✦ Why It Matters ✦
Accurate calibration is the single biggest barrier to clinical-grade mobile hearing assessment, and a validated offset-estimation method could meaningfully lower the cost and access gap for hearing screening at scale.
✦ Key Points ✦
- 01Study developed a calibration offset estimation method for mobile hearing tests using categorical loudness scaling.
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