British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sound level recordings at a London Underground station showed public transit trips that peaked at 109 dB, according to an article on BBC.com.
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British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) sound level recordings at a London Underground station showed public transit trips that peaked at 109 dB, according to an article on BBC.com.
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Microson will introduce its new Personal Sound Amplifier (PSA), an auditory solution that is designed to amplify sound and reduce high volume background noise.
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To benefit from the increasing number of properly installed loops, worldwide (one that meet IEC 60118-4), consumers need access to a vertical telecoil with a frequency response that closely matches the microphone sensitivity at equal input levels for the speech frequencies (70 dB SPL vs 100 mA/m inputs)—something called transparency.
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Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States grew by 3.4% in 2017, with a 4.0% growth rate for the commercial/private sector and 0.92% for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Assn (HIA), Washington, DC.
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The issue is that in perception we rarely need to hear the exact frequency (or frequency spectrum) of speech or of music. However, we do need to hear the relative differences in spectral cues.
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As technology expands in all directions, we should be thinking of the future and how things may change for hearing aids—and at the same time, recognize that some things will likely never change. Viewing the CES exhibits focused me on the future and made me wonder what we have to look forward to with hearing aids in the near future, say in 2020 (Y2.02K).
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The Earlens Light-Driven Hearing Aid is designed to provide patients and clinicians with an amplification option that produces superior sound quality and extended bandwidth relative to traditional acoustic hearing aids. Here are answers to the top 10 commonly asked questions about the device.
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This clinical trial suggests that Signia OVP provides a substantial improvement in own-voice satisfaction, and that this improvement is present for different fitting strategies, and for different ear-canal couplings. Moreover, when the satisfaction with OVP is compared to alternative solutions from competitive products, a significant OVP advantage was seen—to the extent that own-voice satisfaction with OVP using a closed fitting is equal or superior to other products using an open fitting.
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Her areas of specialization and clinical research include the diagnosis of hearing loss in children, fitting of amplification in infants, and the audiological management of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder.
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This study looks at how advanced hearing aid features may affect the results of routine real-ear measurement (REM). One of the key points is that, by using speech noise stimuli (like the ISTS stimuli) during REM, you should be able to obtain an accurate representation of speech gain while not having to turn off all of the advanced features.
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The TNT is a reliable and efficient clinical test that allows measurement of a hearing-impaired listener’s tolerance for noise—with and without hearing aids—so that the results can be compared to normal-hearing listeners, among various hearing aid features, and on the same individual over time. This tool may also be useful for estimating potential satisfaction of the fitted hearing aids in real-life noisy environments.
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Screening a patient for potential skin cancer lesions and referring patients to a medical professional, when warranted, can result in a life-saving intervention. Here’s how to do it.
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The researchers found that keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations in the eardrums, even in the absence of any sounds.
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Since its launch, the Hearing Aid Project has collected hearing aids that have sat in drawers or have been discarded after users purchased new hearing aids.
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