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A new 7-minute video by a Johns Hopkins University med student featuring Drs. Frank Lin and Molly Sheehan aims to get people talking about hearing health (see video embedded in article).
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The Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Task Force in the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has delivered its final report, recommending to the FCC a path for achieving 100% hearing aid compatibility for wireless handsets that includes consumer adoption of Bluetooth connectivity, the addition of a “volume control” requirement to the HAC rules, and transition to a new ANSI testing standard for both hearing devices and wireless handsets.
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More designs are on the way that should help bury hearing aid stigma, including a smartwatch with a face that flips open to reveal a pair of magnetic earbuds, and a headphone that doubles as an air purifier, blowing filtered air into your nose. Get ready for the brave new world of headphones.
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- Clinical Trial: PRINCE22 System Complete Performance Study (Sonova) clinicaltrials․gov
- Auditory Attention Ability under Dichotic Dual-Task Situation in Adults with Listening Difficulties karger․com
- Benefits and risks related to cochlear implantation for children with residual hearing: a systematic review tandfonline․com
- A deep learning solution to the marginal stability problems of acoustic feedback systems for hearing aids asa․scitation․org
- Noise profiling for speech enhancement employing machine learning models asa․scitation․org
- Sustained responses and neural synchronization to amplitude and frequency modulation in sound change with age sciencedirect․com
- How Does Literacy Affect Speech Processing? Not by Enhancing Cortical Responses to Speech, But by Promoting Connectivity of Acoustic-Phonetic and Graphomotor Cortices jneurosci․org
- Divergent associations between auditory activation and inhibition task performance in children and adults. biorxiv․org
- Development of an audiological assessment and diagnostic model for high occupational noise exposure link․springer․com