Nano Unveils New OTC RIC Hearing Aid
Nano Hearing Aids is launching Audacity, an OTC-compliant, RIC hearing aid with comprehensive app control for personalized sound settings.
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A Faster Way to Setting Up External Receivers: Using Roger and Hearing Aids with RogerDirect
Remote microphone technology (RMT) continues to become more effective and smaller, as well as faster and easier to set up. This field trial demonstrates how the new RogerDirect system makes it faster and easier for hearing care professionals to employ RMT technology in hearing aids.
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A Method to Evaluate the Effect of Signal Processing on the Temporal Envelope of Speech
How do hearing aid features such as compression, noise reduction, and directional microphones affect the amplitude of the temporal envelope in the processed sound? Here is a new hearing aid pre-selection tool for clinicians.
Oticon to Offer VA Audiologists Opn Rechargeable and ConnectClip
Opn miniRITE rechargeable hearing aids can be charged overnight so that a user can have power to last throughout the day. ConnectClip, an intermediary device, is designed to turn Opn hearing aids into a high-quality wireless headset for clear, hands-free calls from modern mobile phones, including iPhone® and Android™ smartphones.
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Oticon ConnectClip Wins 2018 Red Dot Award for Product Design
A panel of international jurors recognized ConnectClip for what was said to be “outstanding design aesthetics” that incorporated a variety of technical, performance, and functionality innovations.
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Etymotic Research Merges with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio
Two well-known names and company owners in hearing device manufacturing are joining forces. Etymotic Research Founder Mead Killion announced that his company has merged with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio, a prominent hearing aid and PSAP manufacturer owned by Henry Smith, founder of Authorized Hearing Systems (AHS), America Hears, and more recently Liberty Hearing Aids and Lucid Audio.
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How Should Modern Hearing Aids Be Programmed for Verification with REM?
This study looks at how advanced hearing aid features may affect the results of routine real-ear measurement (REM). One of the key points is that, by using speech noise stimuli (like the ISTS stimuli) during REM, you should be able to obtain an accurate representation of speech gain while not having to turn off all of the advanced features.
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Using Tracking of Noise Tolerance (TNT) as an Outcome Measure for Hearing Aids
The TNT is a reliable and efficient clinical test that allows measurement of a hearing-impaired listener’s tolerance for noise—with and without hearing aids—so that the results can be compared to normal-hearing listeners, among various hearing aid features, and on the same individual over time. This tool may also be useful for estimating potential satisfaction of the fitted hearing aids in real-life noisy environments.
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Researchers Study Sound Quality of Spider Silk
Would you want a spider web inside your ear? Probably not. But if you’re able to put aside the creepy factor, new research shows that fine fibers like spider silk actually improve the quality of microphones for hearing aids.
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ON Semiconductor to Present Ezairo Pre Suite at EUHA 2017
The wireless-enabled Ezairo 7150 SL is reportedly the first hybrid module to be supported by the Ezairo Pre Suite, with a firmware bundle that is designed to make it easier to build wireless-enabled hearing aids.
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Speech-In-Noise Test Results for Oticon Opn
A discussion of signal-to-noise ratio problems and solutions, and a summary of findings of a study involving Oticon Opn hearing aids.
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‘CNN’ Profiles Inventor of HearGlass
Sprague was frustrated by how standard hearing aids “distorted audio” and has incorporated directional microphones, Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities, and a discreet design into his fourth-generation prototype.
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'CNN' Profiles Inventor of HearGlass
Sprague was frustrated by how standard hearing aids “distorted audio” and has incorporated directional microphones, Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities, and a discreet design into his fourth-generation prototype.
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Unitron Expands Tempus Platform with Insera ITE and Stride M R
The new products further extend the Tempus platform’s conversation capabilities to wearers of custom hearing instruments and to those patients seeking a greater variety of rechargeable options.
Read MoreDirectionality in Hearing Aids…Revisited
This article, written in 1996 by Starkey Labs’ engineer Dr Jerry Agnew, re-examines the basic principles of directional hearing instruments and looks ahead at the use of “directionality in CIC and DSP hearing instruments of the future.”
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