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Published Mar 23, 2022
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Evaluation of Apple AirPods Pro Noise Reduction Capabilities
NAL researchers examined the effectiveness of AirPods Pro in the lab and found an SNR improvement of ~7 dB (vs 3-6 dB in conventional hearing aids) with Ambient Noise Reduction and Conversation Boost activated. NAL also recently showed that AirPods Pro can deliver speech intelligibility gains in background noise for people with normal audiograms (who struggle to hear in background noise).
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- Starkey’s Evolv AI Wins 2022 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award hearingtracker․com
- Eversound to Provide Teleaudiology Services to 1,200 Senior Living Community Clients hearingreview․com
Research
- Evaluation of the Clinical Benefit of the Hearing Aids Tinnitus Feature. clinicaltrials․gov
- Effects of an Active Noise Control Technology Applied to Earphones on Preferred Listening Levels in Noisy Environments ejao․org
- Ego-resiliency and tinnitus annoyance thieme-connect․de
- Lipreading: A Review of Its Continuing Importance for Speech Recognition With an Acquired Hearing Loss and Possibilities for Effective Training pubs․asha․org
- Self-Adjustment of Hearing Aid Amplification for Lower Speech Levels: Independent Ratings, Paired Comparisons, and Speech Recognition pubs․asha․org
- Extended high-frequency audiometry in research and clinical practice asa․scitation․org
- Gender differences in caregiver’s use of spoken language with young children who are hard-of-hearing linkinghub․elsevier․com