Quantifying Telecoil Performance: Understanding Historical and Current ANSI Standards

ABSTRACT

Methods for telecoil performance measurement have advanced from the relatively primitive physics lab procedure specified in the 1976 and 1986 American National Standards Institute hearing aid standards to the simulated telephone tests in the 1996 standard. Parallel advances in defining a hearing aid compatible telephone receiver as well as new telecoil testing methods had to occur for the 1996 tests to become possible. The new tests allow more accurate assessment of telecoil parameters and better estimation of expected real-life performance in telecoil mode.

KEYWORDS

Telecoil - telephone simulator - ANSI S3.22-1996 - SPLITS - STS - TMFS

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