ADA Greets the New Millennium
A report on the recent Academy of Dispensing Audiologists convention in San Diego.
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Month: January 2001
Examination of a Multi-Band Noise System
A technical review of a noise reduction/speech enhancement system.
Read MoreThe Annual HR Programmable & DSP Buyer’s Guide
A review of the available digital and analog programmable instruments in the hearing health care field.
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Fine Tuning Multi-Channel Compression Hearing Instruments
When fine tuning a hearing instrument in response to a patient’s complaint, the dispensing professional has to gain a clear understanding of the problem (and the listening situation in which the problem occurs) as well as an understanding of the hearing instrument itself. This article addresses basic fine-tuning concepts and also describes the use of a worksheet that can help drive the process.
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Temporal Pattern Processing of Hearing Instruments
Spectrograms of sound samples are illustrated as examples of a relatively simple and inexpensive method for providing valuable information during the assessment of hearing instrument function. Examples include distortion caused by a drained battery, the effect of a frequency transposition algorithm and the implementation of a speech enhancement algorithm.
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