Ashi 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.
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A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is using sonification – the use of sound to convey information – to depict biochemical processes and better understand how they happen.
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This includes the Virto P Black—the fully-connected in-the-ear (ITE) hearing device that resembles a modern earbud, and the Virto P-Titanium—the “world’s only custom hearing aid made from titanium.”
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Beltone announced the upcoming availability of the Jabra Enhance Plus earbuds that will bring “hearing enhancement in a sleek design to help address the hearing needs of those with mild-to-moderate hearing loss” starting February 25 at select Beltone Hearing Care Centers nationwide.
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GN 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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Podcaster Richard Pocker announced the availability of a book of the transcripts of 25 interviews form his website, cochlearimplantbasics.com
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Mimi announced a new partnership with Circulr Sound, the creator of personal AI audio devices called Hybrid Neckphones. Circulr Sound will bring Mimi Sound Personalization to its Smart Audio Wearables.
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In Part 2, Suzanne Carr Levy, PhD, and Drew Dundas, PhD, discuss the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality of the direct drive approach used in the Earlens system.
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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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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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With the amount of sound exposure that comes with being a touring musician, Ross has come to realize how critical it is to keep his volume levels in check – especially with the long shows that Dave Matthews Band is known for.
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This “oldie but goodie” podcast features an introduction to cochlear dead zones by perhaps the world’s foremost authority on the subject. Dr Moore describes how these regions might be created, possible tell-tale signs and tip-offs for presenting in a patient, and their implications for treatment of hearing loss and hearing aid fittings.
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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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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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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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