Fig. 3

Estimated marginal mean listening effort (left) and listening accuracy (right). Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. *p <.05. **p <.01. ***p <.001. Standard refers to the hearing aid’s default start-up program, which implements omnidirectional microphones, speech enhancement and fast-acting compression. DNN refers to the DNN-listening program, which implements a combination of directional microphones DNN-based noise management, and slow-acting compression.