When computer science becomes useful, it turns out that it is also possible to take audiometric tests and exams on your own, without having to go to the ENT forcefully and find out that you are deaf. We could more than call it a preliminary test because it is certainly not possible to replace a doctor with software or a computer program, however it could be convenient to do checks on the fly.
If you want to quickly check your hearing health, you can use these websites, they provide an easy, but effective online audiometric test, to get an indication of hearing loss (if found).
1) Ear Test is a truly a very simple and easy to use PC program with which you can do a hearing test and audiometric examination and, using headphones, test the various acoustic frequencies for each ear . The test therefore serves to verify and measure how good a person's hearing is and how often it can hear sounds. Generally speaking, a child can hear frequencies even higher than 20, 000 Hz (oscillations per second) while an elderly person generally reaches a maximum of 5, 000 Hz. To use the Ear Test program and use it with precision, you should use headphones and use a low volume otherwise the sound could be unbearable and harmful to hearing.
By starting the test with an average frequency, pressing the Start button, you can easily hear the sound even with a very low volume. To find the volume to take the test, it is better to lower it until you hear this initial sound that is around 2000 Hz. Once you have identified the basic audio volume, you can start to raise the frequency slowly and press the "I can hear it!" button which means "I can feel it". By changing the listening channel between "Left" and "Right" the eardrums of the two ears can be measured separately . By measuring the higher and higher frequencies, a graph that should be your own auditory curve is also drawn at the bottom.
2) Beltone provides an online hearing test in Italian that guides the person (or patient) to the sound calibration procedure and audiometric measurement tests, explaining what they mean and coming to the conclusion with an analysis. It is not necessary to register to take the test, just visit the site and press the START button. The test first asks for some of the personal information such as gender and age, then is asked to choose the device used for the hearing test and it is preferable to use headphones.
After doing the calibration, you can proceed by following the various steps, listening carefully to the sounds reproduced and selecting the images displayed on the screen.
3) Phonak is a test to check the threshold values that the ears are able to detect for low, medium and high tones.
4) Another excellent online audiometric test is Onlinetonegenerator . Using headphones, you can test your hearing by trying to hear sounds at certain frequencies. By pressing Play, you can listen to a sound whose frequency increases progressively; when you no longer feel anything, you can stop and measure your limit. The test can also be done by pressing play on the video below
5) Hear It is a free website where you can take an online hearing test and see if there are any problems. Always with headphones on your ears, you can try to see if you recognize the words spoken by a voice, amid so much background noise.
6) In addition, I also report an online service, the Hearing Test from the Amplifon website. Amplifon is the web page of a hearing aid whose sale is clearly promoted, however the application for testing and examination of hearing made available is very simple and pretty.
7) On Audika.it there is a hearing test, while on the earinfo.com website you can find a detailed explanation of how audiometric tests are made and interpreted scientifically.
8) Less serious and very fun, the test to discover the ability of one's ear to hear music and to recognize different musical notes. Practically for each test, two chords of notes are heard, of which one must say if one is identical to the other or not.
Speaking instead of Android smartphones we see at least 5 apps that work as audiometric test :
1) Hearing exam will ask you to use headphones to do a real hearing test to be done separately for the right and left ears.
You can then answer "I can't hear", "hear" or "Maximum silence".
A graph in the center of the screen shows any problems found.
2) Petralex is an app for Android that will ask you to connect a headset and take a test with 6 tones to listen to and say how good they feel.
3) Hearing test Mimi allows you to configure different volume levels and hearing test frequencies.
4) Dectone Hearing Test works in practically the same way as the previous app, very nice graphically.
The best iPhone app for measuring hearing is Mimi Hearing, free and very accurate. The app should be used with standard earphones, in a quiet environment. There are two types of tests: the rapid test that measures both ears to see how well six-frequency sounds hear and the extended test that controls hearing ability instead.
