Non-auditory Effects of Lower-level Environmental Noise
Does lower-level noise play a factor in long-term health consequences?
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Non-auditory Effects of Environmental Noise
An insightful study of environmental noise and its potential impacts on health.
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MED-EL Showcases Audio Processor Cover Designs
Under the theme “What does sound mean to you?” four professional artists have created designs that will form limited-edition covers for the MED-EL hearing implant audio processors.
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Researchers Develop Seaweed-based Sound Absorber
From airplanes to apartments, most spaces are now designed with sound-absorbing materials that help dampen the droning, echoing, and murmuring sounds of everyday life. But most of the acoustic materials that can cancel out human voices, traffic, and music are made from plastic foams that aren’t easily recycled or degraded.
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NIH Researchers Find How Sound Reduces Pain in Mice
An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound reduces pain in mice, according to an announcement on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website.
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Researchers Design Device to Recognize Voices from Skin
Voice recognition technology is increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, from asking trivial questions, playing music, sending text messages, to controlling GPS navigation systems. It is a convenient technology with broad applications. However, to get the most of its intended functions, one must stand close to the device and articulate carefully. What if the skin on our bodies could recognize voices without using any devices?
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Beltone Introduces Imagine Custom Rechargeable Hearing Aids
The new hearing aids “restore natural hearing in a sleek and comfortable earbud design.” They are available in modern In-style or Blend-In colors, reportedly are “weather- and sweat-proof, and last all day on a single battery charge.”
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What Is Important to Your Hearing Aid Clients… and Are They Satisfied?
What are the major drivers of customer satisfaction with hearing aids? Almost all surveys emphasize the importance of hearing speech in noise. Recent consumer surveys also indicate that the main drivers of hearing aid satisfaction are sound quality or hearing aid performance over their satisfaction with the hearing care professional (HCP) or hearing aid physical qualities. Listening situations most important to hearing aid users for speech understanding are: 1:1 conversations and group conversations in noise, soft speech in quiet, understanding speech without visual cues, and speech at a distance.
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Can You Combine Safe Listening and Sound Quality? A Look at Apple AirPods Pro
Great listening experiences don’t require throwing safe sound levels and your hearing health to the wind. Here is a review of the popular Apple AirPods Pro relative to WHO and ITU safe listening standards.
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Knowles Releases Research Related to Earphone Design
Knowles Corporation, a global provider of advanced micro-acoustic microphones and speakers, audio solutions, and high-performance capacitors and RF products, announced research demonstrating a new Preferred Listening Response Curve for earphone design, “reflecting findings to ensure the best and most satisfying music listening experience for consumers.”
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Oticon Announces Three New Awards for Polaris Platform
Oticon MyMusic, already a CES 2022 Innovation Awards winner, received a second award for “Best New Hearing Aid Technology Solution” from the 2022 MedTech Breakthrough Awards. Oticon also secured a 2022 Red Dot Design Awards for Oticon Play PX in the Medical Devices category and for Oticon SmartCharger in the Technology category.
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Two Old Soft-Material Earmold Tricks
When I first started in this field there were two types of earmold materials that were in common usage: Lucite and Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC; Lucite being “hard” and PVC being “soft.” Since the mid-1990s, PVC earmolds such as Formaseal and Protint have given way to various forms of silicon-based materials.
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MarkeTrak 2022: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Hearing Healthcare
MarkeTrak 2022 updates and extends the findings of MT10 (2019) generated by this series of consumer surveys—the most comprehensive and oldest of its kind, dating back to 1989—of hearing aid users and non-users in the United States. In particular, MT2022 includes new information about hearing aid use by gender and race, and also includes data on cochlear implant use and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs), as well as the emerging class of what may soon become over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids.
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Hear.com Launches Horizon AX Hearing Aid Line
In support of hear.com’s mission to bring “high-quality hearing care to anyone, anywhere, the new family of hearing aids are for those seeking an affordable, easy-to-use solution that provides the most advanced sound experience possible,” according to the company’s announcement.
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Amazon Fire TV Cube Launches Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA)
This makes Amazon Fire TV Cube “the first-ever streaming media player to support ASHA and allow customers to directly connect compatible Bluetooth hearing aids,” according to the company.
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