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Whisper Launches 4th Upgrade to Whisper Hearing System
Today’s latest upgrade is said to “improve the hearing experience offered by the Whisper earpieces so that users have a better experience if they don’t have the Whisper Brain with them.”
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Google Alphabet ‘Wolverine’ Hearing Tech Project Aims to Improve Hearing in Noise
A new Google Alphabet project codenamed “Wolverine” aims to develop sensor technology to improve hearing while in a noisy environment, according to an article on “The Verge.”
‘ConsumerAffairs’ Compares Hearing Devices at CES 2020
In an article on the ConsumerAffairs website, Gary Guthrie compared two different hearing devices...
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Oticon Xceed Now Available Through VA and Defense Department
Built on the Velox S platform, the new power hearing aid features BrainHearing technology “proven to deliver better speech clarity and better short-term recall while reducing the listening effort people with severe-to-profound hearing loss struggle with in day-to-day listening situations.”
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Oticon Team Presented at Recent Empower Conference in Orlando
The Oticon Team reported on hearing healthcare trends, technology innovations, and clinical advances at Empower Conference.
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Oticon Launches Xceed, Xceed Play, and CROS Hearing Solutions
Oticon announced the arrival of new adult and pediatric power hearing aids as well as a new CROS/BiCROS hearing solution to the Oticon Velox S family.
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Marvel 2.0 Makes RogerDirect Available in All Phonak Marvel Hearing Aids
The new portfolio includes the Phonak Audéo™ M-RT, said to be “the world’s only all-in-one hearing aid combining direct connectivity with iOS and Android, T-coil, and rechargeability,” according to Phonak.
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Lyric After 10 Years: New Data and Perspectives from a Private Practice
One of the world’s foremost clinics that provide Lyric extended-wear hearing aids offers perspectives on its evolution and its potential to change a practice—as well as all hearing healthcare.
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Toward Differential Diagnosis in Adult Hearing Healthcare
If the inquisitive individual starts asking about the why of his/her hearing loss—the actual physical reasons and possible proof—and what anatomical structures are involved (and/or by how much), I’m afraid most dispensing professionals necessarily resort to studious equivocation. Although important strides have been made, routine differential diagnosis remains something of a chimera when it comes to hearing loss.
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World Health Organization Releases New Noise Guidelines for European Region
The systematic reviews were based on several health outcomes—cardiovascular and metabolic effects, annoyance, effects on sleep, cognitive impairment, hearing impairment and tinnitus, adverse birth outcomes, and quality of life, mental health, and well-being—and the effectiveness of interventions in reducing noise exposure and negative health impacts.
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Merck Manuals Survey Finds Many Americans Rarely Think About Hearing Loss
Understanding the causes of hearing loss, along with effective ways to treat it, are crucial steps to limiting the extent to which hearing loss impacts communication and day-to-day life.
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Sonic to Present Enchant Hearing Aid Family at AAA 2018
In a side-by-side listening demo, hearing care professionals can discover for themselves how Enchant compares to the competition in noisy environments.
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These Hearing Aids Make Everything Sound Digital!
It is conceivable that the modern digitization process reduces the extraneous hearing aid (microphone) noise too much and a clinical strategy would be to reprogram the hearing aid with minimal expansion implemented in the hearing aid software.
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Real-life Applications of Machine Learning in Hearing Aids
A look into the present and future of hearing aid processing and post-fitting adjustments for patients.
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A Comparison of Feedback Cancellation Systems in Premier Hearing Aids
This study, which replicates earlier research on feedback cancellation (FBC) systems, uses three tests to evaluate the various aspects of hearing aid performance directly affected by the FBC: AGBF, Max-REIG, and a sound quality evaluation using Multi-Stimulus Test with Hidden Reference and Anchor (MUSHRA).
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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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