Widex has long been using real-time artificial intelligence to help hearing aid users customize their sound in the moment. Now the resulting large amounts of real-life user data can also be analyzed using artificial intelligence, revealing meaningful clusters of preferences for distinct listening situations.
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Is there solid scientific evidence that hearing aids can fend off cognitive decline? Researcher Samira Anderson, AuD, PhD, explains results from some of the most compelling studies on this topic—including those she has been involved with—and provides insights into this exciting area of hearing healthcare science.
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One of the most amazing abilities of the human brain is its capacity for change. Based on the findings of authors Hannah Glick and Anu Sharma, it appears that untreated hearing loss (even mild sensorineural hearing loss) is associated with neural re-organization and cognitive deficits.
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Research into how the brain and a person’s cognitive status is impacted by auditory input, speech, and social engagement continues at a fast pace. In this article, Douglas Beck and Michael Harvey summarize many of the most important and recent articles examining the relationships between cognition, audition, and amplification.
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Applying DNNs to hearing aids represents an entirely new sound processing approach and technology. In our profession, with regard to hearing aids, DNNs offer the promise of higher sound quality, an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), improved understanding of speech in noise, improved recall, and more.
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Under S-2441, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advisory Council’s membership will include new public members, including a parent of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing and has special needs, and a person who is deaf-blind.
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The University of Connecticut has been awarded a $179,000 grant from the US Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education for a new research project centered on reimagining dual-language education. The project’s purpose is to improve the ability of dual-language programs to promote the equitable bilingualism and biliteracy development of all students through a greater focus on sociocultural competence.
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After 42 years in the hearing industry, six of those with ESCO, President Jim Guthier announced his retirement. ESCO has named David Mumm as the company’s new president.
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Starkey announced that Livio Edge AI has won a 2021 BIG Innovation Award, presented by the Business Intelligence Group. The annual business awards program recognizes organizations, products, and people that are bringing “new ideas to life in innovative ways.”
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New compression and noise management strategies allow Radiant to help deliver what the company describes as “clear, brilliant sound to improve the user experience, even in noisy environments.”
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Oticon More is “the world’s first hearing aid that uses an on-board Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained on more than 12 million real-life sounds.”
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A team of neuroscientists of TU Dresden headed by Professor Katharina von Kriegstein presents new findings that show that not only the cerebral cortex, but the entire auditory pathway, represents sounds according to prior expectations.
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Philanthropist and Johns Hopkins Medicine trustee David M. Rubenstein has made a $15 million commitment to the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins to support the department’s research
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After a two-year term, Demant A/S CEO Søren Nielsen hands over the EHIMA Presidency to Eric Bernard, CEO of WS Audiology, the company formed from the merger between Sivantos and Widex in 2019.
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The findings are significant because no such FDA-approved drug currently exists, and the drug that has shown effectiveness to protect hearing in animal models in the study, dabrafenib, is an FDA-approved drug that is currently used in treating cancers.
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