All items tagged with hearing aids (116)

Bluetooth SIG Market Update on LE Audio Specification

March 31, 2022 by Joao Martins

Bluetooth SIG Market Update on LE Audio Specification

The Bluetooth SIG published its latest Bluetooth Market Update. And we learn that the LE Audio specification project is nearing completion... and should be ready this year. Will everyone just wait? This article looks at the llatest Bluetooth Market Update, which confirms that wireless audio streaming is still the largest Bluetooth solution application area by far, and is bound to grow even more thanks to LE Audio. But everything is taking a bit longer than expected and not everyone is happy...

Knowles Introduces New Balanced Armature Receiver Targeting Over-The-Counter Hearing Aid and TWS Market

February 15, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Introduces New Balanced Armature Receiver Targeting Over-The-Counter Hearing Aid and TWS Market

Knowles Corporation announced the RAQ, a new medium-power, full-range balanced armature receiver developed for high volume hearing health and TWS products. The balanced armature receiver’s small size and high output delivers up to 116dB Sound Pressure Level (SPL) at 500Hz, making it optimally positioned to meet the performance requirements for both hearing health and True Wireless Sound (TWS) products.

GN Group Announces Launch of Jabra Enhance Plus Hearing Enhancement Earbuds

February 8, 2022 by Joao Martins

GN Group Announces Launch of Jabra Enhance Plus Hearing Enhancement Earbuds

A day past from the introduction of a new, category-defining hearing-aid model from ReSound, another GN Group brand announces the launch of a new hearing enhancement convergence product. The new Jabra Enhance Plus are described as true wireless earbuds designed to bring hearing enhancement for clearer conversations, as well as music and calls in a state-of-the-art miniaturized design. They look like regular TWS earbuds, but are in fact OTC-class self-fitting hearing aids.

GN Hearing Introduces ReSound ONE Behind-the-Ear Hearing Aids

February 7, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

GN Hearing Introduces ReSound ONE Behind-the-Ear Hearing Aids

GN Hearing unveiled a new product that delivers on the convergence between consumer electronics and audiology solutions. The new ReSound ONE Behind-the-Ear hearing aids combine the best technologies from both fields, in order to provide clarity in sound and convenient hands-free phone and FaceTime calls from iPhone and iPad. The ReSound ONE hearing aids are targeted at those with moderate to severe hearing loss.

xMEMS Announces Montara Pro MEMS Drivers with Integrated DynamicVent for Intelligent TWS Earbuds and Hearing Aids

January 3, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

xMEMS Announces Montara Pro MEMS Drivers with Integrated DynamicVent for Intelligent TWS Earbuds and Hearing Aids

xMEMS Labs introduced Montara Pro, a MEMS microspeaker with an integrated solution that opens or closes the vent by sensor fusion input from the system DSP. This approach enables smart TWS earbuds and hearing aids that create best-of-both-worlds user experiences, combining the benefits of closed-fit (occluded) and open-fit earbuds. xMEMS is providing first demonstrations of Montara Pro this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at Venetian Suite 29-325.

Knowles Partners with Lucid Hearing to Enable Hearing Aid Premium Audio Quality

November 22, 2021 by Joao Martins

Knowles Partners with Lucid Hearing to Enable Hearing Aid Premium Audio Quality

Knowles announced the availability of the GM series receiver, a new high-performance, two-way balanced armature receiver designed specifically to enable hearing health applications to deliver audiophile-quality music performance. Knowles and Lucid Hearing have partnered to bring the hearing health industry the Westone Audio High Fidelity DWT, a premium hearing aid with a Receiver in Canal (RIC) that delivers exceptional sound quality for music-listening.

Reading Glasses and Hearing Aids. Smart or FDA-Approved. Pick One.

November 11, 2021 by Joao Martins

Reading Glasses and Hearing Aids. Smart or FDA-Approved. Pick One.

Making Audio Augmentation useful for everyone, or pursue the regulatory requirements of OTC hearing aids. This article offers a useful perspective regarding the guidance documents published by the US Food and Drug Administration regarding improved access to hearing aid technology. The agency proposes a rule to establish a new category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids - to be sold directly to consumers in stores or online without a medical exam or a fitting by an audiologist. But most audio manufacturers are better off by not pursuing this FDA-approved OTC market. Doing so will simply hinder critical experimentation and innovation.

Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration

November 10, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Celebrates 75 Years of Voice and Audio Technology Integration

Knowles Corporation is celebrating the company's 75th anniversary. Knowles pioneered many industry-firsts including balanced armature drivers for the first hearing aids in 1954, and the first MEMS microphones used in everything from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to the latest true wireless earbuds. Today, Knowles products and solutions are in cell phones, laptops, wearables, smart speakers, or any device with voice control. And Knowles leverages its 75 years of success and expertise to expand in audio processing, the smart home or automotive applications.

xMEMS Samples Ultra-Small Full-Range Microspeaker

November 4, 2021 by Mike Klasco

xMEMS Samples Ultra-Small Full-Range Microspeaker

Back in January 2015, I gave a talk about MEMS loudspeakers, and I have regularly written about MEMS speaker progress. A half decade later, it seems we are finally now moving beyond the industry's joke that MEMS’ development progress can be measured in dog years: it takes 7 human years for each year of MEMS’ progress! The big news is xMEMS Labs, a company founded just in January 2018, has announced it is now in mass production of its Montara, a monolithic MEMS “µspeaker” with a slim 1mm profile, and announced Cowell, the world’s smallest monolithic MEMS µSpeaker, at just 1.15mm high and 3.2mm wide.

xMEMS Announces Cowell Microspeaker for TWS and Hearing Aid Applications

November 2, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

xMEMS Announces Cowell Microspeaker for TWS and Hearing Aid Applications

xMEMS Labs today introduced Cowell, the world’s smallest monolithic MEMS µspeaker, targeting the replacement of balanced armature drivers in true wireless earbuds and hearing aid designs. At just 22mm3, 56 milligrams, and with a 3.2mm diameter side-firing package, Cowell delivers an impressive 110dB SPL at 1kHz. Cowell is the first speaker to use xMEMS’ 2nd generation M2 speaker cell architecture offering improved SPL/mm2 enabling increased loudness in smaller form factors.

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