Subjective Intelligibility and Hearing Loss
People with hearing loss think they understand more than they actually do, says a new study on subjective intelligibility and hearing loss.
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A Digital Therapeutic and Hearing Health Coach for Enhancing First-time Hearing Aid Experiences
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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GN Hearing Launches ReSound ONE Hearing Aid
This solution places an additional microphone inside the ear canal, “for the first time, allowing people relying on hearing aids to experience the world with their own ears while preserving the comfort of an open-fit device.”
Speech Processing is Complex Before Reaching Cerebral Cortex, Researchers Find
Previously, it was assumed that all auditory information was equally transmitted via the auditory pathways from the ear to the cerebral cortex. The current recordings of the increased activity of the vMGB show that the processing of the auditory information begins before the auditory pathways reach the cerebral cortex.
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Speech-in-Noise Training May Help Speech Perception for Cochlear Implant Users
To assess the effect of training on speech perception in noise, a group of pre-lingually hearing impaired cochlear implant users with years of cochlear implant experience was compared with normal hearing young adults.
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Purdue Researchers Find Noise-induced Trauma May Have Greater Impact on Hearing Loss
The researchers found that noise trauma causes substantially greater changes in neural processing of complex sounds compared with age-related metabolic loss, potentially explaining large differences in speech perception commonly seen between people with the same clinically defined degree of hearing loss based on an audiogram.
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Finnish Researchers Develop Guidelines for Using Music to Develop Spoken Language Skills
The guidelines are suitable for the parents of children with hearing impairments, early childhood education providers, teachers, speech therapists, and other rehabilitators of children with hearing disabilities, as well as the hearing-impaired themselves.
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Finnish Researchers Develop Guidelines for Using Music to Develop Spoken Language Skills
The guidelines are suitable for the parents of children with hearing impairments, early childhood education providers, teachers, speech therapists, and other rehabilitators of children with hearing disabilities, as well as the hearing-impaired themselves.
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Researchers Develop Virtual Model of Cochlea
Improved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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Researchers Develop Virtual Model of Cochlea
Improved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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Problems in Fitting Asymmetric Hearing Losses
Aiding asymmetric losses—especially in cases with very distorted perception of speech and discomfort—can be very frustrating. I think trying amplification initially is required, but the process will be difficult, especially when there is a better ear to compare to.
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Problems in Fitting Asymmetric Hearing Losses
Aiding asymmetric losses—especially in cases with very distorted perception of speech and discomfort—can be very frustrating. I think trying amplification initially is required, but the process will be difficult, especially when there is a better ear to compare to.
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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.
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Boys Town Study Shows Improved Speech Understanding with Oticon OSN
The ability of OSN to preserve speech coming from different locations allows access to other talkers in the background, which is said to be fundamental to incidental learning in school-age children.
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Infant Speech Processing Important to Establishment of Language-Cognition Link
A new Northwestern University study provides the first evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language sets constraints on the range of human languages they will link to cognition.
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Passings: Robert Schulein, Audio Engineer, Inventor
Audio engineer Robert Schulein, known for his work at Shure, Etymotic Research, and RBS Consultants, died peacefully in his home on New Years’ Day 2019 after a valiant, seven-year battle with cancer.
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Novel Benefits in CROS and BiCROS Hearing Aid Fitting Technology
Overall, the findings of this study demonstrate that the two new CROS/BiCROS systems from Signia—the Pure 312 Nx CROS with Narrow directionality and the Silk Nx CROS—provide a superior solution to the daily listening problems encountered by people with SSD.
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Microsoft to Add Live Captions and Subtitles Feature to PowerPoint
In honor of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Microsoft announced this new feature—powered by artificial intelligence (AI)—which provides captions and subtitles for presentations in real time.
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