Hearing Instrument Manufacturers: ‘Bluetooth LE Audio is a Major Step Ahead for Hearing Aid Users’
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announces LE Audio as the next generation of Bluetooth...
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Med-El Releases Sonnet 2 Audio Processor
MED-EL USA announced that the new SONNET 2 audio processor is now available. Because MED-EL...
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Mattel Launches New American Girl Doll with Hearing Loss
American Girl, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mattel (NASDAQ: MAT), announced the launch of...
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ASHA Poll Shows Holiday Tech Purchases Despite Parental Concern for Child’s Hearing
The polling also shows that despite concerns, over half of parents plan to purchase a tech-related gift for their child this holiday season, according to an announcement by ASHA.
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Demant Launches High-end Audio Headset Company, EPOS
Demant—the Danish parent group of Oticon, Sonic, and several leading hearing healthcare brands—has launched EPOS, a new high-end audio solutions company that will develop and manufacture headsets used by businesses and gamers.
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Signia Launches Pure Charge&Go X Hearing Aid
Pure Charge&Go X is a receiver-in-canal (RIC) device that includes “the world’s first acoustic-motion sensors,” according to the company’s announcement. Since a hearing aid wearer’s sound environment can change suddenly, this technology can reportedly adapt to changes in their soundscape and detect when the wearer is in motion, responding automatically to “deliver natural and personalized sound from any direction, in any situation—even when moving.”
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5th International Conference on Hyperacusis to Take Place July 16-17, 2020 in London
This event is suitable for audiologists and other healthcare professionals who are involved in assessment and/or management of patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis/misophonia. This conference brings together studies of audiology, mental health, neuroscience, psychoacoustics, neurology, and other areas.
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Asymptotic Hearing Loss: When Is a Metaphor Just a Metaphor?
Like all healthcare fields where the clinician needs to explain complex concepts to the lay public, metaphors are used. In the optical field, “nearsighted” and “farsighted” are actually good metaphors despite their simplicity and academic inaccuracy. In the field of audiology, we have the description of the audiogram with the piano keyboard across the top; a good explanation, but limited in that it’s only the right hand side of the keyboard and musical notes are not pure-tones.
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New Dimensions in Automatic Steering for Hearing Aids: Clinical and Real-world Findings
Identification of acoustic scenes using an enhanced signal classification system and motion sensors has been recently employed in the Signia Xperience hearing aids. This study evaluates the effectiveness of these systems in both the laboratory and real-world environments.
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A Comparison of Direct Audio Streaming Quality in Hearing Aids
In a test conducted by an independent laboratory, 16 hearing aid users who are part of a trained panel of sound quality assessors evaluated individualized recordings of streamed speech and music samples through ReSound LiNX Quattro, ReSound LiNX 3D, and 5 other premium hearing aids. ReSound LiNX Quattro and ReSound LiNX 3D were preferred for different types of streamed content. The influence of various attributes of sound quality are discussed.
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Demant Presents Philips Hearing Solutions at 2019 EUHA Congress
Demant has launched a complete range of premium Philips HearLink hearing aids, accessories, and applications which are designed to help people with hearing loss to connect to friends and family, enjoy their favorite music and entertainment, and, ultimately, improve their lives.
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Sonion Joins Global Qualcomm Extension Program
The company will offer the Sonion Voice Pick Up Bone Sensor on the Qualcomm Ultra-Low Power QCC5100 Bluetooth SoC series in Q1 2020.
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Sonic to Display Captivate and Trek at EUHA Congress
At the Sonic exhibit (STAND 3A.408), conference participants will be able to experience firsthand how the SoundDNA platform is said to ”bring together Sonic’s most automatic, adaptive, and flexible hearing aid technologies to deliver on Sonic’s 4S Foundation of natural sound, speech understanding in noise, simplicity, and style.”
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Contralateral Routing of Signal: A Status Report 2019
Douglas Beck & Virginia Ramachandran examine the various forms of unilateral hearing loss and review the various treatment methods with particular emphasis on the effectiveness of CROS and BiCROS hearing aid fittings.
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Huey Lewis and the News Release New Song
Huey Lewis and the News recently released a new song, “Her Love Is Killin’ Me,” in anticipation of a full-length album that’s expected in 2020, according to an article in the “San Francisco Chronicle.”
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