Eargo 5 is Eargo’s fifth-generation device and is a medical-grade, FDA Class II exempt hearing device designed to be “customizable by the user to their hearing preferences through all new Sound Match technology,” according to Eargo’s announcement. Through Sound Match, Eargo 5 “helps enable custom tuning with no clinic visits or waiting rooms.”
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Early in Dr Michael McKee’s career, one of his patients, who was deaf, died from a heart attack. It led him to study how to prevent it from happening to others. That tragic event might not have happened, he said, if there had been “accessible community health education programs to allow for deaf individuals to learn ways to improve their health and to recognize common danger signs of serious health conditions.”
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Aerosol generated by playing woodwind and brass instruments is less than that produced during vocalization (speaking and singing) and is no different than a person breathing, new research has found.
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Mead Killion, PhD, points out that, in churches and choirs, the risk of Covid-19 for people who remain unvaccinated appears to be greatly increased due to the dramatic increase in aerosol disbursement from loud singing.
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According to the conference organizers, the scientific program will combine “keynotes as well as featured and invited talks with scientific contributions to highlight the wide range of world-class research and hot topics in computational audiology.”
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Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) announced that it is launching a public health ad campaign on June 22 that will greet transit commuters in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago to drive the message—especially to young people—that playing music too loud on personal listening devices can permanently damage their hearing.
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Sonova announced that it has won a silver medal for in the Health and Living Environment category for its film at the 2021 Deauville Green Awards, an international festival celebrating film productions about social responsibility and eco-innovation.
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With life, comes noise. From the chorus of weed whackers and lawn mowers in the summer months, these background noises form the soundtrack to our daily routines. Though it may be easy to tune out the constant screech of a subway train or the incessant honking of car horns, at a certain sustained level, noise can potentially damage the sensitive structures within the ear.
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Widex USA Inc announced Widex My Sound, a portfolio of AI features including a new solution that “instantly enables intelligent customization of the company’s Widex MOMENT hearing aids based on a users’ activity and listening intent.”
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During its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 7, Apple announced new speech-in-noise enhancement capabilities in iOS 15 called “Conversation Boost,” which uses computational audio and beamforming microphones for use in Apple AirPod Pros.
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A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the “speech-to-song illusion,” can offer a window into how the mind operates and give insight into conditions that affect people’s ability to communicate, like aphasia and aging people’s decreased ability to recall words.
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MCK Audio, the company making HearHooks and Companion Mics, has just launched a new website offering detailed product information, case studies, and research on music practices during a pandemic.
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A team of researchers from Western University, in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, has designed a mathematical tool to help do just that — program the implant with precision for each patient’s unique anatomy.
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According to the company, OTC Ready helps enable headphone/earbud manufacturers using the Qualcomm 51XX SoC to address the “likely requirements of the upcoming US over-the-counter hearing aid market.”
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Researchers writing in the journal “Trends in Ecology & Evolution” on May 26 say that embryos of many different animal species also rely on acoustic signals in important ways.
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