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Exploring Oticon’s Proprietary Fitting Rationale: VAC+

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1. What is the name of Oticon’s proprietary fitting rationale? Voice Aligned Compression Voice Adaptive Compression Vocal Adaptive Compression Voice Aligned Gain
2. What year was Oticon’s proprietary fitting rational introduced? 1999 2002 2004 2006
3. VAC+ targets can currently be accessed by all of the listed REM systems via AutoFit except which of the following? Natus Aurical Freefit: Otosuite® Interacoustics: Affinity 1.0/2.0, Affinity Compact, Callisto™: Affinity Suite, Callisto Suite MedRX®: AVANT ARC, AVANT REM Speech+: Studio Audioscan®: Verifit® 1/2
4. In addition to matching frequency-specific targets for a fitting rationale, what additional metric can be used to estimate the audibility of the speech signal? Speech Understanding Index SUI Speech Intelligibility Index SII Speech Intelligibility Score SIS Speech Audibility Index SAI
5. In the pilot study described in the lecture, which of the following was true concerning aided SII values? SII values were equivalent for NAL-NL2 and VAC+ for moderate and loud stimulus intensity levels. VAC+ resulted in a higher SII value for soft stimulus intensity levels. SII values were equivalent for NAL-NL2 and VAC+ for all stimulus intensity levels. SII values were equivalent for NAL-NL2 and VAC+ for soft and moderate stimulus intensity levels. VAC+ resulted in a higher SII value for loud stimulus intensity levels. SII values were higher for NAL-NL2 than for VAC+ for all stimulus intensity levels.