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BIHIMA Releases Q4 2020 Market Data

The latest UK and Irish hearing instrument data for Q4 2020 shows significant NHS recovery in the final months of the year, despite a second national lockdown in December, according to an announcement from the British Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA).

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Signia Introduces Xperience Platform with Motion Sensor Technology

Signia has launched Signia Xperience, a new platform that features a combination of advanced acoustic sensors with a built-in motion sensor, as well as 80% more transistors and 7 times the memory of the previous Signia Nx chip. Signia Xperience hearing aids are designed to provide a complete analysis of the wearer’s dynamic soundscape, allowing for automatic adjustments between sounds in front of and all around the wearer for a personalized listening experience.

Oticon Hearing Foundation Supports 2014 Project Amazon

Two audiologists from Illinois State University—Lindsay Bondurant, PhD and second-year AuD student Ellen Avoletta—have been selected to travel to the Oticon Clinic in Parintins, Brazil as part of Project Amazon. The Oticon Hearing Foundation will again underwrite the costs for the humanitarian mission that provides audiology care and hearing solutions to children and adults from some of Brazil’s most impoverished communities.

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Bits, Bytes and Chips: Understanding Digital Hearing Aids, by Brian Csermak and Steve Armstrong

“Bits, Bytes and Chips” by Brian Csermak and Steve Armstrong looks at hearing aid digital signal processing (DSP) as the first DSP hearing aids were coming available in 1999. The authors explain sampling rates, MIPs, and detail how the A/D converter (analog-to-digital) can limit the performance of hearing aids. They also discuss the concepts of the noise floor, dynamic range, sampling resolution, over-sampling, and noise shaping.

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