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Phonak Marvel Technology

February 25, 2020/in Hearing aids Devon, News /by admin

Phonak Marvel Technology Now Available in Customs and BTE Hearing Aids

 

 

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Phonak, a provider of hearing aid solutions, announced its Marvel technology availability in additional styles and form factors spanning “nearly ever degree of hearing loss.” This includes an expanded portfolio of custom in-the-ear (ITE), super-power, and pediatric hearing aids across multiple performance levels, according to Phonak. Marvel connectivity is said to allow “hand-free calls as well as audio streaming to virtually any Bluetooth enabled devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or TVs.”

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Phonak Virto Black Marvel and Naida Marvel

At January’s 2020 International CES, Phonak unveiled Virto™ M Black, described as “a fully-connected hearing aid shaped like a hearable.” Virto M Black is said to be Phonak’s first custom-made hearing aid equipped with Marvel technology, including universal Bluetooth®streaming, hands-free phone calls, and a personalized hearing experience via the myPhonak app. Virto M Black was named a “Best of CES Winner in Accessibility” from Engadget, the “Best Medical Device” by Slashgear, and was included among Newsweek’s “Best of CES 2020: The Top Tech Products You Can Actually Buy This Year.”

Phonak Virto Black Marvel

Continuing this momentum is the release of Virto M NW and Virto M-Titanium, which Phonak says offers Marvel’s “signature exceptional sound quality in a smaller device, down to an invisible-in-canal (IIC).” Thanks to the Titanium FitGuide, over 50% of people are said to get an “even more discreet Virto M-Titanium fitting by an average of 2.5 mm.1” All Virto M hearing aids include Biometric Calibration, which is said to analyze “over 1,600 biometric data points to precisely calibrate the device to a patient’s individual ear anatomy,” according to Phonak.

The Phonak Sky™ portfolio now includes the new Sky M-SP in all four performance levels. Sky Mis powered by AutoSense Sky OS 3.0, the next generation of Phonak’s operating system designed specifically for children. All Sky M hearing aids can stream audio from virtually any Bluetooth device and directly connect to Roger microphones, helping give children “easier access to words and conversation at school and home.”

Also available today is Naída™ M-SP, offering “powerful, rich sound, universal Bluetooth streaming from iOS®and Android™ devices, and RogerDirect™ connectivity for unparalleled hearing in noise and over distance.2” Naída M is suitable for people with severe-to-profound hearing loss and provides 24% less listening effort in noise and with StereoZoom.*3 For words which are difficult to predict, StereoZoom improves recall in noise by 10%.*3

Phonak’s expanded Marvel portfolio will be available in various countries around the globe over the coming weeks and pre-orders in the US began on February 19.

For more information, please visit: www.phonak.com.

  1. Bishop R, Stewart E, Loyola N. Titanium FitGuide—helping more than 50% of people get an even more discreet Virto B-Titanium. www.phonakpro.com/evidence. Accessed February 19, 2020.
  2. Thibodeau, L. (2014). Comparison of speech recognition with adaptive digital and FM remote microphone hearing assistance technology by listeners who use hearing aids. American Journal of Audiology. 23(2): 201-210.
  3. Winneke A, Schulte M, Latzel M. The effect of spatial noise processing in hearing aids on neural correlates of listening and memory effort: an EEG study. 2019. Manuscript submitted for publication.
  4. At the time of publication, datasheet analysis on 2cc coupler full-on-gain, Compared to Oticon Xceed SP, Widex EVOKE FP, and Starkey Livio.

*compared to Real Ear Sound

Bluetooth® word mark is a registered trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such mark by Sonova AG is under license.

iOS is a trademark of Cisco Technology, Inc

Android is a trademark of Google LLC

Source: Phonak

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Starkey hearing aid Devon

February 16, 2020/in News /by admin

Livio AI Now Compatible with Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Smartphones

  

Livio AI Now Compatible with Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Smartphones-Devon hearing

New Starkey hearing aids at Honiton hearing centre, Devon

Starkey announced that Livio AI is now compatible with “more devices than ever before,” including direct streaming support from the latest in Samsung’s smartphones. This capability expands Starkey’s streaming offering to Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+, and Note 10 smartphones, leveraging all the power-saving benefits of Bluetooth® Low Energy.

“This new ability to stream directly from Samsung smartphones to Livio AI will allow Starkey to continue to expand its global footprint,” said Achin Bhowmik, PhD, Starkey’s Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering. “Samsung smartphones are used around the world. This new compatibility will substantially increase the number of people who can access the groundbreaking technology that Livio AI offers.”

Livio AI is reportedly “the only hearing aid to use artificial intelligence to monitor brain and body activity, allowing people of all ages to take a proactive approach to their overall wellness,” according to Starkey. These devices continue to earn recognition inside and outside of the hearing industry, including TIME’s list of Best Inventions of 2019 and The Verge’s list of 100 best gadgets of the decade.

“We are pleased to have a chance to work with Starkey to incorporate the function for the hearing impaired in our devices,” said Jong-Mu Choi, head of convergence R&D for Samsung Electronics. “We look forward to our continued partnership, as we develop new technologies.”

Source: Starkey

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Widex Unveils BEYOND Hearing Aid

February 9, 2020/in Hearing aids Devon, News /by admin

Widex Unveils BEYOND Hearing Aid with Advanced Connectivity

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Widex Unveils BEYOND Hearing Aid, Devon hearing

With an intuitive swipe-function app, personalized sound programs, and multiple ways of connecting, the just-unveiled Widex BEYOND made-for-iPhone hearing aid is designed to deliver a high level of connectivity and sound.

Widex BEYOND app for iPhone Devon hearing According to Widex, BEYOND provides exceptional 2.4 GHz direct connectivity, while advanced TRI-LINK™ technology lets wearers instantly connect to iPhones, T-coils and a full range of DEX communication solutions. An integrated signal processing chip-set design, with 100% independent channel separation, minimal delay filters and 4 A/D converters, means BEYOND offers the cleanest sound of any hearing aid in the industry–even while streaming, reports Widex.

The company says that what makes Widex BEYOND special is its easy-to-use and customisable made-for-iPhone app. It allows full streaming functionality and control over the listening environment so hearing aid wearers are seamlessly connected anywhere and anytime – and provides unparalleled connectivity between their hearing aids. The app interface can be personalised by wearers, and also utilizes the familiar swipe functionality for easy navigation – so users can quickly and easily navigate through various intuitive commands and screens.

Other BEYOND highlights include:

  • A clean sound hearing aid rated by wearers as significantly better than others. Brilliant sound – even when streaming.
  • Up to 30% better speech understanding in wind with the SMARTWIND MANAGER™ that significantly reduces wind noise annoyance
  • Better power consumption than many made-for-iPhone streaming hearing aids; with PowerSaver Plus™ technology, designed specifically for the demands of connectivity
  • Soft Level Noise Reduction that allows soft speech sounds to be heard, while reducing bothersome soft noises
  • WidexLink™ – the supreme InterEar communication technology

Widex BEYOND app, Devon hearing, Honiton hearing centre According to Widex USA President Jeffrey Geigel, Widex BEYOND is ahead of the game when it comes to made-for-iPhone hearing technology. “Widex is already known for leading technology and sound, but now we allow the end-users to control that sound from their pockets via their iPhone.”

“BEYOND was already presented at EUHA in Germany to great success–it created a lot of positive attention,” added Widex CEO Jørgen Jensen adds. “We are proud to have a product that sets new standards. Our customers live active lives, and BEYOND really helps them live their lives the way they want.”

Widex is a global hearing aid technology company and has been developing hearing aids for 60 years. Widex products are sold in more than 100 countries around the world, and the company employs over 3,800 people worldwide.

Source: Widex

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Researchers Find Two Biomarkers Involved in Speech in Noise

February 2, 2020/in Devon Ear syringing centre, Hearing tests Devon, News /by admin

Researchers Find Two Biomarkers Involved in Speech in Noise

 

Taken from The Hearing Review.com

 

A pair of biomarkers of brain function—one that represents “listening effort,” and another that measures ability to process rapid changes in frequencies—may help to explain why a person with normal hearing may struggle to follow conversations in noisy environments, according to a new study led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers and summarized on the hospital’s website. Published online last week in the scientific journal eLife, the study could inform the design of next-generation clinical testing for hidden hearing loss, a condition that cannot currently be measured using standard hearing exams.

“Between the increased use of personal listening devices or the simple fact that the world is a much noisier place than it used to be, patients are reporting as early as middle age that they are struggling to follow conversations in the workplace and in social settings, where other people are also speaking in the background,” said senior study author Daniel B. Polley, PhD, director of the Lauer Tinnitus Research Center at Mass. Eye and Ear and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Head-Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School. “Current clinical testing can’t pick up what’s going wrong with this very common problem.”

Daniel B. Polley, PhD

“Our study was driven by a desire to develop new types of tests,” added lead study author Aravindakshan Parthasarathy, PhD, an investigator in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass. Eye and Ear. “Our work shows that measuring cognitive effort in addition to the initial stages of neural processing in the brain may explain how patients are able to separate one speaker from a crowd.”

Hearing loss affects an estimated 48 million Americans and can be caused by noise, aging, and other factors. Hearing loss typically arises from damage to the sensory cells of the inner ear (the cochlea), which convert sounds into electrical signals, and/or the auditory nerve fibers that transmit those signals to the brain. It is traditionally diagnosed by elevation in the faintest sound level required to hear a brief tone, as revealed on an audiogram, the gold standard test of hearing sensitivity.

Aravindakshan Parthasarathy, PhD

Hidden hearing loss, on the other hand, refers to listening difficulties that go undetected by conventional audiograms and are thought to arise from abnormal connectivity and communication of nerve cells in the brain and ear, not in the sensory cells that initially convert sound waves into electrochemical signals. Conventional hearing tests were not designed to detect these neural changes that interfere with our ability to process sounds at louder, more conversational levels.

In the eLife report, the study authors first reviewed more than 100,000 patient records over a 16-year period, finding that approximately 1 in 10 of these patients who visited the audiology clinic at Mass. Eye and Ear presented with complaints of hearing difficulty, yet auditory testing revealed that they had normal audiograms.

Motivated to develop objective biomarkers that might explain these “hidden” hearing complaints, the study authors developed two sets of tests. The first measured electrical EEG signals from the surface of the ear canal to capture how well the earliest stages of sound processing in the brain were encoding subtle but rapid fluctuations in sound waves. The second test used specialized glasses to measure changes in pupil diameter as subjects focused their attention on one speaker while others babbled in the background. Previous research shows changes in pupil size can reflect the amount of cognitive effort expended on a task.

They then recruited 23 young or middle-aged subjects with clinically normal hearing to undergo the tests. As expected, their ability to follow a conversation with others talking in the background varied widely despite having a clean bill of hearing health. By combining their measures of ear canal EEG with changes in pupil diameter, they could identify which subjects struggled to follow speech in noise and which subjects could ace the test. The authors are encouraged by these results, considering that conventional audiograms could not account for any of these performance differences.

“Speech is one of the most complex sounds that we need to make sense of,” Polley said. “If our ability to converse in social settings is part of our hearing health, then the tests that are used have to go beyond the very first stages of hearing and more directly measure auditory processing in the brain.”

In addition to Drs Polley and Parthasarathy, co-authors on the eLife report include Kenneth E. Hancock of Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School, Kara Bennett of Bennett Statistical Consulting, Inc, and Victor DeGruttola of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD P50-DC015857).

Original Paper: Parthasarathy A, Hancock KE, Bennett K, DeGruttola V, Polly DB. Bottom-up and top-down neural signatures of disordered multi-talker speech perception in adults with normal hearing. eLife. 2020;9:e51419.

Source: Mass. Eye and Ear, eLife

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