Signia announced its new Styletto AX hearing aid and two new capabilities for its Augmented Xperience (AX) platform — My WellBeing and CallControl — are now available to US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) audiologists treating military veterans, as well as audiologists within the US Department of Defense (DOD), for active military members, and the Indian Health Service (IHS) for Native Americans.
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.
Signia announced that it has been named a finalist in the 2021 Digiday Awards in the Best Product Launch Campaign category for Signia Active X.
Though the concept of “Zoom fatigue” is known to many who are weary of remote connection with co-workers nearly two years in to the pandemic, for those with hearing loss, Zoom videoconferencing can make communication even more challenging than before, according to a recent article on the “Forbes” website.
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The program is free to register for all students in audiology doctorate programs, “immersing them in in-depth, interactive sessions and empowering them with knowledge and insights as they prepare for careers in the hearing care industry,” according to Signia.
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The latest in hearing aid technology, including new innovative products from Widex, Oticon, Signia, Starkey, Phonak, Whisper, Unitron, Rexton, Earlens, NewSound, and Miracle Ear.
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Echoes received by bats are so simple that a sound file of their calls can be compressed 90% without losing much information, according to a study published in the journal “PLOS Computational Biology.”
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Apple announced the introduction of software features “designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.” According to Apple’s announcement, “these next-generation technologies showcase Apple’s belief that accessibility is a human right and advance the company’s long history of delivering industry-leading features that make Apple products customizable for all users.”
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Phonak announced that the Roger On remote microphone solution will be available to hearing aid and cochlear implant wearers via hearing care professionals as of June 15, 2021.
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Developed under an NIH research grant, Amptify is an online aural rehabilitation program and Hearing Health Coach that engages patients and enhances the new hearing aid experience without incurring additional time on the part of a patient’s audiologist. As teleaudiology becomes more commonplace, it is highly likely that Amptify will be the first of many digital therapeutics for the treatment of hearing loss.
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The scientists want to use genetic engineering methods to make the nerve cells in the ear sensitive to light so that they can then be stimulated with light instead of electricity, as is currently the case.
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Starkey announced that Chief Technology Officer Achin Bhowmik, PhD, has been named a 2021 Health Care Heroes honoree by the “Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.”
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As cochlear implant technology has significantly improved, the US Social Security Administration (SSA) should use a more difficult test than the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) to make disability benefit determinations in adults and children after cochlear implant surgery, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).
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Phonak announced the launch of the second generation of Roger Focus, the ear-level receiver that allows “children, teens, and adults to hear a speaker’s voice via any Roger microphone.”
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Ten months into COVID-19 living, people are adapting to speaking from behind, and understanding others who are wearing a cloth face mask, University of California, Davis (UC Davis), researchers suggest in a new study.
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Researchers identified common challenges these users face in their interactions with smart assistants, such as the default higher-pitched female voices used on many smart assistants being incompatible with hearing aids, and difficulty of use in public places with background noise that competes for their attention, such as nearby conversations or the average commotion in a grocery store.
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Starkey announced that the Livio Edge AI has been selected as a CES 2021 Innovation Awards honoree in the accessibility category.
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The technology Irwin and Sullivan are commercializing with their START funding is an interactive app that asks children to choose the word they hear in various levels of noise. It then adapts to match the child’s performance and provides a report on their performance for parents or professionals.
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