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HandsFree and CallControl in Signia AX deliver a great phone experience for the wearer and the conversation partner.
HandsFree and CallControl in Signia AX deliver a great phone experience for the wearer and the conversation partner.
The new solution strives to “deliver the perfection of natural sound by expanding the benefits of Widex PureSound to more users; adding advanced software and hardware technologies that support engagement and improved well-being; and elevating design standards for a user experience that instills pride and confidence in ownership.”
SoundRelax is a new palette of fractal sounds to support well-being.
Anecdotally, wearers of Widex ZeroDelay technology report that sounds are perceived as “more three-dimensional,” “having more layers,” and “spacious.” This article explores the effects of reverberation on hearing aid listening and offers an explanation about why wearers may have made such observations.
Read MoreHearing enhancement device developer and distributor Noopl has announced it is suspending the sales and marketing of its device. Launched at CES 2021 and honored with a CES 2022 Innovation Award, Noopl was a small $199 hearing accessory that clipped onto the bottom of an iPhone.
Read MoreSignia announced the availability of its latest feature enhancements for its Augmented Xperience (AX) hearing aid platform: HandsFree, Auto EchoShield, and Own Voice Processing (OVP) 2.0 – which, together, help to “enhance hearing performance in a wide variety of situations.”
Read MoreOticon, Inc announced the expansion of the Oticon More family with two new Polaris miniBTE solutions that give VA audiologists “the ability to bring the superior sound quality of Oticon More to even more veterans.”
Read MoreCompatible with LucidShape, fio allows the user to develop custom hearing levels for all types of environments making wearing fio a way to bring the user back into the conversation.
Read MoreThe next-gen Olive Max features “cutting-edge adaptable sound settings and a sleek wraparound design that resembles today’s popular consumer earbuds rather than traditional hearing aids,” according to the company’s announcement.
Read MoreAccording to the company’s announcement, Whisper’s V1.5 launch delivers a new feedback cancellation system that’s said to “improve sound quality and expand the fitting range for the hearing aid to adults with up to 90 dB of hearing loss.”
Read MoreHow effective are the Conversation Boost (CB) and Ambient Noise Reduction (ANR) features in the extremely popular Apple Airpods Pro? Research at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) show an improvement in SII-weighted SNR of around 7 dB for a talker located in front of the listener in a noisy environment for the CB-on and ANR-100% condition.
Read MoreThe earbuds were announced, in tandem, with a website “Thinking About Hearing Health” dedicated to educating people about Safe Listening, particularly since hearing loss from listening to loud music at high volumes for extended periods of time.
Read MoreThe AV30s are available now at ZVOX.com and Amazon.com for $99.99, including recharging case and three different sizes of ear domes.
Read MoreHearing aid signal processing is central to the sound that surrounds the user every day. This article lays out different possible signal-processing strategies, focusing on the choice of filter bank and sampling rate, and how these relate to sound quality. Although both time- and frequency-domain filter banks have their advantages, the sound-quality benefits of a time-domain filter bank outweigh other considerations.
Read MoreWith a free software update to the hearing aid, Beltone Imagine users will now be able to make and answer phone or FaceTime calls simply by tapping a button, using them like any other earbuds to listen and talk with friends, family, or co-workers.
Read MoreAshi has upgraded to the latest Signia CROS Pure Charge&Go AX hearing aids, built on Signia’s Augmented Xperience (AX) hearing aid platform that uses two digital processors to intelligently understand which sounds should be pulled to the foreground and prioritized, and which should remain in the background.
Read MoreThis 3-part series is a high-level review of the data that has accumulated across more than 10 years of clinical research with the technology at the heart of the Earlens system. In Part 1, we dove into the speech understanding data to demonstrate how increasing the audible bandwidth of processed sound results in improved speech understanding performance from several perspectives. In Part 2, we discussed the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll deep dive into the restoration of audibility and how the Earlens approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in fittings via direct drive—as well as who may benefit from this.
Read MoreGN announced availability of the “first-of-its-kind innovative Jabra Enhance Plus earbuds engineered for hearing enhancement” in the US on February 25.
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