The Audiologist Informer

HearingTracker Audiologist Matthew Allsop provides a detailed review of the new Phonak Lumity receiver-in-canal hearing aid family. The successor to the popular Audéo Paradise, Lumity is the first to run on AutoSense OS™ 5.0, and delivers new speech enhancement and directional microphone features that aim to deliver better speech clarity—especially in background noise.

Research from Johns Hopkins shows the Mimi smartphone mobile app has a high sensitivity and specificity with no significant differences in hearing levels compared to standard audiometric testing. The uHear app was less sensitive/specific for hearing loss than Mimi and tended to overestimate hearing impairment at lower frequencies.

Audiology and psychology experts from the UK, USA, Belgium, and Canada discuss Aazh and Moore’s forthcoming book on 'Living Well with Tinnitus,' a self-help guide for using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for tinnitus.

China's multinational e-gaming and internet conglomerate Tencent has teamed with Shenzhen Eartech to designed a new $399 hearing aid that reportedly uses AI and provides “about 85% improved sound clarity and speech intelligibility compared with similar devices in the market.”