GN confirms its intention to launch Jabra Enhance Plus, a miniaturized “true wireless earbud that delivers a 3-in-1 experience of hearing enhancement, music, and calls,” in the OTC hearing aid category.
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GN Hearing announced the launch of ReSound Omnia – a new hearing aid platform that will “set a new standard in hearing technology and improve how people interact with the world around them.” According to the company, ReSound Omnia provides “significantly better hearing in noisy environments than any previous ReSound hearing aid.”
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SoundRelax is a new palette of fractal sounds to support well-being.
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Does lower-level noise play a factor in long-term health consequences?
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An insightful study of environmental noise and its potential impacts on health.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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