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For the first time, the World Health Organization (WHO) has included hearing aids among the interventions that may be offered as part of strategies to reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, marking a notable change from its previous guidance. The recommendation appears in the WHO’s second edition of its guidelines on reducing the risk of cognitive decline and

LYNGE, DENMARK — WSA reported 3% organic revenue growth in the third quarter of its 2025/26 financial year (April 1–June 30, 2026), with revenue reaching €624 million. EBITDA before special items increased 12% to €119 million, while the corresponding margin rose 2 percentage points to 19.1%. The hearing healthcare group also confirmed and narrowed its outlook for the full financial year,

What changes when a hearing aid uses four specialized deep neural networks at the same time? Andrew Bellavia travels to Munich for an early look at Signia MaX, the company’s new hearing aid platform built around what Signia calls Acoustic Intelligence. Andrew sits down with Barinder Samra, MSc, Global Senior Commercial Audiology Manager at Signia, to explore how the new

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA — Starkey has been named a recipient of the 2026 Pro Patria Award, the highest honor presented by a state committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The award recognizes Starkey for its support of employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve through workplace policies, leadership, and support for military service members and

STÄFA, SWITZERLAND — Phonak has introduced EON, its next-generation hearing aid platform, featuring a newly developed HYPERSONIC™ chip along with updated artificial intelligence-based speech and environmental processing. The new platform brings together Spheric Speech Clarity 3.0, AutoSense OS™ AI 8.0 and Phonak’s Made-For-All connectivity. Compared with the previous Sphere generation, EON is 25% smaller and 20% lighter and offers up

LYNGE, DENMARK — Signia, part of WSA, has introduced Signia Multi-adaptive Xperience (MaX), a new hearing aid platform built around what the company calls Acoustic Intelligence — a system that uses four task-specific deep neural networks (DNNs) to simultaneously analyze speech, noise, environmental conditions, and the wearer’s own voice. The Pure Charge&Go MaX receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aid is the first

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — RayNeo has announced the RayNeo iO Smart Glasses, a lightweight pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses that can display transcribed speech within the wearer’s field of view. The company has highlighted the technology’s potential as a communication tool for people who are Deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), allowing spoken conversations to be presented as visual

RESTON, VIRGINIA — The American Academy of Audiology (AAA) has opened its call for abstracts for the AAA 2027 Annual Convention, scheduled for April 7–10, 2027, in St. Louis, Missouri. The Academy is inviting clinicians, researchers, academic professionals, and others in the audiology community to submit proposals for consideration as part of the convention program. According to AAA, the 2027

MIAMI, FLORIDA — ELEHEAR, the AI hearing technology company, today announced the launch of ElePro Plus, a live tele-audiology service that gives users one-on-one access to licensed professionals remotely, on their own schedule, through the ELEHEAR app. The service became available August 17 and builds on the company’s existing ElePro Basic remote fitting service. ElePro Plus is initially available for

GN’s new ReSound Sensia hearing aids build on the AI and Deep Neural Network (DNN) technology introduced with ReSound Vivia, with a major change: advanced speech-in-noise processing can now engage automatically. At the center of the new platform is AcoustIQ™, which analyzes the listening environment and determines when to activate directional processing, DNN-based noise reduction, and other features to support