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Douglas Beck, AuD, Announces Retirement from Oticon

Douglas L. Beck, AuD, Vice President of Academic Sciences for Oticon, Inc, has announced he will retire in March 2022. Beck is a global presence in the world of hearing care. In more than 17 years of contributions to Oticon’s academic, clinical, and education efforts in the US and around the world, he developed into one of the hearing industry’s most in-demand speakers. 

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Hearing Aids Are Now Up to 109 dB!

The input-related dynamic range of modern hearing aids is important to know in order to prevent distortion and input-clipping of louder sounds in the environment. Typical loud input sounds are music and the level of a hearing aid consumer’s own voice.  

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xMEMS Launches Montara Pro MEMS Microspeaker

xMEMS Labs announced the launch of its Montara Pro, described as “the world’s first monolithic MEMS µspeaker with integrated DynamicVent enabling smart TWS earbuds and hearing aids that create best-of-both-worlds’ user experiences combining the benefits of closed-fit (occluded) and open-fit earbuds.”

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Perfecting Pitch Perception

In a study reported December 14 in the journal “Nature Communications,” researchers led by McGovern Institute for Brain Research associate investigator Josh McDermott used computational modeling to explore factors that influence how humans hear pitch.

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Understanding One Speaker in a Crowded Room

In a crowded room where many people are talking, such as a family birthday party or busy restaurant, our brains have the ability to focus our attention on a single speaker. Understanding this scenario and how the brain processes stimuli like speech, language, and music has been the research focus of Edmund Lalor, PhD, associate professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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