Category: Hearing Aids

Hearing Aids

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Direct-To-Ear Audio Streaming Can Improve Accessibility and Well-Being

Addressing in-person communication is no longer enough. Direct-to-ear audio streaming—via hearing aids, TV streamers, and emerging technologies like Auracast—reduces listening fatigue, improves recall and engagement, and enables people with hearing loss to more fully participate in online work and public venues.

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Reducing Hearing Aid Delay for Optimal Sound Quality: A New Paradigm in Processing

Sound quality in digital hearing aids is often compromised due to signal-processing delay and the resulting “comb-filter effect.” To change this, Widex recently introduced a new solution, designed particularly for mild-to-moderate hearing losses, which employs an ultralow delay. This results in a sound quality that has, until now, been unattainable in digital hearing aids. This article describes the physics of hearing aid delay, and presents a field study on the sound quality experience of the new system.