New Widex Allure Hearing Aid Platform Combines Advanced Processing with First Cloud-Based Fitting Solution

Underscoring its commitment to helping hearing aid wearers, Widex, a part of WS Audiology, announced Widex Allure, the company’s newest platform, designed to deliver the most natural hearing experience in any environment. Allure features the all-new W1 chip for advanced processing and are the first RIC RD hearing aids to be fitted through Widex Compass Cloud, the world's first cloud-based fitting software.

Originally presented at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) New York convention in 2018, the release of the DeMIX Pro software established a strong new contender in the field of audio separation. Meanwhile, AudioSourceRE has used machine learning to take the concept further, while the latest version 5 of DeMIX Pro and DeMIX Essentials has set a new standard for AI-powered audio separation, making the unimaginable totally possible. Now, AudioSourceRE is working to offer the same technology, running in real-time embedded systems!

Dolphin Design, a semiconductor designer of power management, audio, and processing devices with in-house ASIC design services, announced the launch of WhisperExtractor, a mixed-signal technology for voice and audio-enabled SoCs, enabling voice and sound classification at a record µW level power budget. The new technology paves the way to breakthrough always-on voice user interface, real time speech-to-text, and always-on sound detection.