Signia Introduces Hearing Aid Tech for Noisy Group Conversations
Signia launched a new technology that enables hearing aid wearers to hear all speakers in noisy group conversations clearly.
Signia launched a new technology that enables hearing aid wearers to hear all speakers in noisy group conversations clearly.
Extending the Blu line of hearing aids, Unitron announced the official launch of its Insera ITE (In-the-ear) hearing aids, powered by Blu. The Insera family offers “flexibility and personalization through a range of choices in size, functionality, and features based on individual needs and preferences,” according to the company's announcement.
GN Hearing announced the launch of ReSound Omnia – a new hearing aid platform that will “set a new standard in hearing technology and improve how people interact with the world around them.” According to the company, ReSound Omnia provides “significantly better hearing in noisy environments than any previous ReSound hearing aid.”
From the WKRN TV studios in Nashville, Tennessee, Meaghan Thomas speaks to nearly three million people every day. But when Meaghan Thomas posted recently on social media about overcoming hearing loss with hearing aids, the people spoke back, hearing aid company Signia announced. Many had been dealing with the same challenges.
Read MoreAnecdotally, wearers of Widex ZeroDelay technology report that sounds are perceived as “more three-dimensional,” “having more layers,” and “spacious.” This article explores the effects of reverberation on hearing aid listening and offers an explanation about why wearers may have made such observations.
Read MoreHearing enhancement device developer and distributor Noopl has announced it is suspending the sales and marketing of its device. Launched at CES 2021 and honored with a CES 2022 Innovation Award, Noopl was a small $199 hearing accessory that clipped onto the bottom of an iPhone.
Read MoreSignia announced the availability of its latest feature enhancements for its Augmented Xperience (AX) hearing aid platform: HandsFree, Auto EchoShield, and Own Voice Processing (OVP) 2.0 – which, together, help to “enhance hearing performance in a wide variety of situations.”
Read MoreOticon, Inc announced the expansion of the Oticon More family with two new Polaris miniBTE solutions that give VA audiologists “the ability to bring the superior sound quality of Oticon More to even more veterans.”
Read MoreCompatible with LucidShape, fio allows the user to develop custom hearing levels for all types of environments making wearing fio a way to bring the user back into the conversation.
Read MoreThe next-gen Olive Max features “cutting-edge adaptable sound settings and a sleek wraparound design that resembles today’s popular consumer earbuds rather than traditional hearing aids,” according to the company’s announcement.
Read MoreAccording to the company’s announcement, Whisper’s V1.5 launch delivers a new feedback cancellation system that’s said to “improve sound quality and expand the fitting range for the hearing aid to adults with up to 90 dB of hearing loss.”
Read MoreHow effective are the Conversation Boost (CB) and Ambient Noise Reduction (ANR) features in the extremely popular Apple Airpods Pro? Research at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) show an improvement in SII-weighted SNR of around 7 dB for a talker located in front of the listener in a noisy environment for the CB-on and ANR-100% condition.
Read MoreThe earbuds were announced, in tandem, with a website “Thinking About Hearing Health” dedicated to educating people about Safe Listening, particularly since hearing loss from listening to loud music at high volumes for extended periods of time.
Read MoreThe AV30s are available now at ZVOX.com and Amazon.com for $99.99, including recharging case and three different sizes of ear domes.
Read MoreHearing aid signal processing is central to the sound that surrounds the user every day. This article lays out different possible signal-processing strategies, focusing on the choice of filter bank and sampling rate, and how these relate to sound quality. Although both time- and frequency-domain filter banks have their advantages, the sound-quality benefits of a time-domain filter bank outweigh other considerations.
Read MoreWith a free software update to the hearing aid, Beltone Imagine users will now be able to make and answer phone or FaceTime calls simply by tapping a button, using them like any other earbuds to listen and talk with friends, family, or co-workers.
Read MoreAshi has upgraded to the latest Signia CROS Pure Charge&Go AX hearing aids, built on Signia’s Augmented Xperience (AX) hearing aid platform that uses two digital processors to intelligently understand which sounds should be pulled to the foreground and prioritized, and which should remain in the background.
Read MoreThis 3-part series is a high-level review of the data that has accumulated across more than 10 years of clinical research with the technology at the heart of the Earlens system. In Part 1, we dove into the speech understanding data to demonstrate how increasing the audible bandwidth of processed sound results in improved speech understanding performance from several perspectives. In Part 2, we discussed the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll deep dive into the restoration of audibility and how the Earlens approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in fittings via direct drive—as well as who may benefit from this.
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