Hearing Technologies

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Starkey Hearing Technologies announced enhancements to its recently released Livio AI hearing aid. Among the announced features is the first-ever Fall Detection and Alert capability within a hearing aid. Heart Rate Measurement and a built-in Virtual Assistant were also included in the release. The new highly-anticipated Fall Alert feature is said

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that both PowerPoint and Skype will be getting real-time captions and subtitles beginning in 2019. The intention of the new feature is to be more inclusive and allow individuals that are deaf or hard of hearing the ability to more easily follow presentations in PowerPoint or spoken audio during Skype calls. The captions are said

Oticon announced this week that its Opn Custom hearing aids are now available through the Veterans Affairs Administration, Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The company now adds five new custom styles, including the smallest hearing aid style Oticon has ever produced.  All Oticon Opn devices use BrainHearing™ technology, in addition to fast and precise processing technology “to support

Swiss hearing aid maker, Sonova, announced that it has licensed and deployed the CEVA RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP in the company’s latest iteration of its SWORD (Sonova Wireless One Radio Digital) hearing aid chip, dubbed SWORD™ 3.0.  The new SWORD™ 3.0 chip is the first and only hearing aid radio chip to fully support direct binaural streaming of audio content and phone

Oticon Kaizn, said to be “the world’s first personal AI assistant for your ears”, has received a 2019 CES Best of Innovation Award in the Software and Mobile Apps category, and has been named a CES Innovation Honoree in the Tech for a Better World category. According to the company announcement, the new AI-powered tool “brings to fruition the promise

by James W. Martin, Jr, AuD, and Oliver Townend Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be appearing everywhere. For example, BMW and Mercedes are pairing humans with machines to accomplish tasks in the automotive industry that in the past would have been impossible when performed by either in isolation (Daugherty, 2018). This enables flexible human-machine teams to work in a symbiotic

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA — The Earlens Corporation announced last week that it has completed an $87 million preferred stock financing round led by a new investor KCK Ltd., a family investment fund. According to the company announcement, the proceeds from this latest round of financing will be allocated to continued product development and the enhanced, 2019 commercial rollout. Additional investors included Exor Seeds and previous investors Lightstone

A New Solution for Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss: A Guest Contribution by H.-P. Weihmann. This is an independent review and the opinions and evaluations were conducted by the author   “Not really hearing aids” gone cool   I was lucky enough to get an hour of Dr. Alan Davis valuable time allocated during my visit at the Audiology Now Conference a

STÄFA, SWITZERLAND — Phonak announced today the upcoming release of the all-new Marvel hearing aid family. The soon-to-be-released Audéo™ M will feature the ability to stream audio content seamlessly from iPhone, Android smartphones or any number of other Bluetooth enabled devices to both ears in stereo. According to the company’s press release, the new Marvel hearing aids are rechargeable and

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is allowing the marketing of a new hearing device from Bose. According to the announcement, the Bose Hearing Aid is intended to amplify sounds for individuals 18 years or older with perceived mild to moderate hearing  loss. The announcement represents the first time a hearing aid has been authorized