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Two/i/ or not two /i/? Hearing aid delay and coloration pitch for vowel sounds.
By Christopher Slugocki, Francis Kuk and Petri Korhonen
Published in Hearing Review September 2023
This study published in Hearing Review investigates the effect of delay on vowel discrimination. The study shows that vowels processed with PureSound-delay are significantly more similar to an unprocessed reference than those with longer delays. This shows how ultralow delay preserves the naturalness of speech stimuli and adds to the growing body of evidence on the benefits of ultralow delay. In addition to the article, we’ve created two sets of slides: one with some detail about the study and a 1-pager summarizing the key insights of the study. You’ll find both in the folder linked below. [or above?]
Effect of sound therapy on whole scalp oscillatory brain activity and distress in chronic tinnitus patients
By: Mie Lærkegård Jørgensen, Petteri Hyvärinen, Sueli Caporali, and Torsten Dau
Published on Frontiers, August 29, 2023
This study investigated the relation between sound therapy for tinnitus patients and the oscillatory brain activity. Although the data do not support changes in so-called gamma activity as a relevant biomarker of tinnitus-related distress, the study does show the benefits of using fractal tones for tinnitus treatment. Sixteen out of 20 participants showed improvements in tinnitus-related distress after two months of sound therapy with Widex fractal tones.
Hearing Aid Delay Effects on Neural Phase Locking
By: Mary Zhou, Roksana Soleimanpour, Aakriti Mahajan and Samira Anderson
Published on Ear and Hearing. July 12, 2023
This study investigates the correlation between the speech stimuli that people are hearing and their brain response. This is called stimulus-to-response (STR) correlation and is significantly stronger for the 0.5 ms signal processing delay in Widex PureSound compared to competitors with longer delays. The study outlines a range of possible benefits of a stronger STR correlation, including lower listening effort and better speech-in-noise performance. It also argues that the brain signals that they are measuring may be seen as an objective measure of sound quality.
Ask the experts: How fitting Widex improves the Hearing Care Professional's clinical experience
By: Dana Helmink, AuD and Jodi Sasaki-Miraglia, AuD
This article reports on a survey of 246 HCPs which shows a range of advantages for Widex compared to the other main brands in the industry in terms of running an efficient hearing care practice and helping more people hear. With a lower return rate and fewer follow-ups, the HCP who fits Widex can waste less time on unsuccessful fittings and use that time to help other potential hearing aid wearers. The survey also shows high satisfaction with several unique Widex features, and the article explains how these may be useful for different types of hearing aid wearers.
Optimizing Sound Quality to Reach More People with Tinnitus
By: Laura Winther Balling, Renate Olinger, Anne Mette Jeppesen, Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, June, 14, 2023
Patients with mild hearing loss whose main complaint is tinnitus may benefit from amplification but object to the sound quality of hearing aids. This article shows how Widex PureSound, which has been optimized for mild-to-moderate hearing loss, can help overcome the hurdle of poor sound quality. Combined with sound therapy options in Widex SoundRelax and Zen, this provides hearing care professionals with a strong and flexible offering for patients with tinnitus.
Expanding Options for Effective Tinnitus Management
By: Laura Winther Balling, Sueli Caporali, Daniel Parker, Anne Mette Jeppesen, and Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, February 2023
This article from Hearing Review shows the positive effects of Widex SoundRelax on tinnitus. Like the previous generation of fractal tones (Widex Zen), use of Widex SoundRelax is associated with significant improvements in tinnitus severity. The article reports the results of an ongoing longitudinal study that shows that tinnitus severity is reduced for people listening to these sounds. Together with previous evidence, this shows Widex SoundRelax to be a strong option for tinnitus treatment, as well as support for relaxation, concentration, and well-being for all users.
Sound Quality and Comfort with Instant Ear-Tips: From the Lab to Real Life
By: Laura Winther Balling, Sueli Caporali and Jens Cubick
WidexPress 49, January 2023
This article documents the careful research that was conducted before launching the new instant ear-tip portfolio with Widex Moment Sheer™. Measurements in the lab showed that the new ear-tip portfolio offers more closed options, increasing the possibility to fit patients with instant ear-tips. In a real life study following up on this, HCPs rated the new ear-tip portfolio very highly in terms of key parameters like fit to target and general satisfaction, while end users showed excellent satisfaction with both sound quality and comfort.
WIDEX PUBLICATIONS IN 2022
- Empowering Patients with Personalized Compression
By Laura Winther Balling, Anne Mette Jeppesen, Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen, and Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, November 4, 2022
- Hearing aid delay in open-fit devices: Preferred sound quality in listeners with normal and impaired hearing
By Dina Lelic, Georg Stiefenhofer, Ellen Lundorff, and Tobias Neher
Published in JASA Express Letters, October 2022
- Are Hearing Aids the Answer to Reducing Stress and Improving Well-Being?
By Laura Winther Balling, Sueli Caporali, Daniel Parker, Anne Mette Jeppesen, and Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, August 2, 2022, 29(8), pp.24-27
- Low Processing Delay Preserves Natural Cues and Improves Spatial Perception in Hearing Aids
By Petri Korhonen, Francis Kuk, Chris Slugocki, and Greg Ellis
Published in HearingReview, June 2022 - The Acoustics of Instant Ear Tips and Their Implications for Hearing-Aid Fitting
By Jens Cubick, Sueli Caporali, Dina Lelic, Jasmina Catic, Anne Vikær Damsgaard, Steen Rose, Terri Ives, and Erik Schmidt
Published in EAR and HEARING, June 23, 2022
- Hearing-Aid Directionality Improves Neural Speech Tracking in Older Hearing-Impaired Listeners
By Eline Borch Petersen
Published in Sage journals, June 22,2022 - Hearing aid delay in open-fit devices – coloration-pitch discrimination in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired
By Georg Stiefenhofer
Published in International Journal of Audiology, March 17, 2022
- Signal Processing and Sound Quality
By Laura Winther Balling, PhD, Lars Dalskov Mosgaard, PhD, and Dana Helmink, AuD
Published in HearingReview, March 2, 2022
WIDEX PUBLICATIONS IN 2021
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Optimizing Sound in Signal Processing and Hearing Aid Fitting
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By Laura Winther Balling, Dana Helmink
Published in Audiology Practices, December 15, 2021
Download pdf - Wind Noise Management in Hearing aids
By Petri Korhonen
Published in Seminars in Hearing, September 24, 2021 - The Collaboration between Hearing Aid Users and Artificial Intelligence to Optimize Sound
By Laura Winther Balling, Lasse Lohilahti Mølgaard, Oliver Townend, Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen
Published in Seminars in Hearing, September 24, 2021
Download pdf - Further Improvements to Fitting for Widex Moment™
By Oliver Townend, Laura Winther Balling
Published as WidexPress 47, September 2021 - Asking the Experts: Hearing Care Professionals' View of Widex
By Oliver Townend, Laura Winther Balling
Published as WidexPress 46, September 2021 - Sound Quality for All: The Benefits of Ultra-fast Signal Processing in Hearing Aids
By Laura Winther Balling, Oliver Townend, Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, September 8, 2021 - Critical hearing experiences manifest themselves differently across individuals: insights from hearing aid data captured in real-life moments
By Dina Lelic, Jakob Nielsen, Daniel Parker, Filip Marchman Rønne
Published in International Journal of Audiology, June 30, 2021 - How tech enables natural hearing
By Laura Winther Balling
Published in Healthcare Global, June 26, 2021 - Use of Emotional and Neutral Speech in Evaluating Compression Speeds
By Petri Korhonen, Francis Kuk, Christopher Slugocki, Neal Ruperto
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, May 25, 2021 - Sound Quality in Real Life–Not Just for Experts
By Laura Winther Balling, Oliver Townend, Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, February 17, 2021 - Using the Repeat-Recall Test to Examine Factors Affecting Context Use
By Francis Kuk, Christopher Slugocki, Petri Korhonen
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, February 15, 2021 - Widex Moment™ - TruAcoustics™ Optimised
By Oliver Townend, Laura Winther Balling
Published as WidexPress 45, February 2021 - Quantifying Acoustic Distortions from Hearing Aid Group Delays
By Francis Kuk, Christopher Slugocki
Published as WidexPress 44, February 2021 - Sound Quality in Real Life: Not Just for Experts
By Laura Winther Balling, PhD, Oliver Townend, BSc, and Dana Helmink, AuD
Published in Hearing Review, Feburary 17,2021 - AI-Driven Insights from AI-Driven Data
By Laura Winther Balling, Oliver Townend, Lasse Lohilahti Mølgaard, Casper Jespersen, Wendy Switalski
Published in Hearing Review, January 15, 2021
WIDEX PUBLICATIONS IN 2020
- Expanding Your Hearing Care Beyond the Walls of Your Clinic
By Laura Winther Balling, Oliver Townend, Lasse Lohilahti Mølgaard, Wendy Switalski
Published in Hearing Review, October 7, 2020 - Effects of Directional Microphone and Noise Reduction on Subcortical and Cortical Auditory-Evoked Potentials in Older Listeners With Hearing Loss
By Christopher Slugocki, Francis Kuk, Petri Korhonen
Published in Ear and Hearingm September 1, 2020 - Performance of normal-hearing listeners on the Repeat-Recall test in different noise configurations
By Francis Kuk, Christopher Slugocki, Neal Ruperto, Petri Korhonen
Published in International Journal of Audiology, August 21, 2020 - Neural Encoding of the Stimulus Envelope Facilitated by Widex ZeroDelay Technology
By Christopher Slugocki, Francis Kuk, Petri Korhonen, Neal Ruperto
Published in Hearing Review, August 7, 2020 - Widex Moment™ - This Sound Changes Everything
By Oliver Townend, Laura Winther Balling
Published as WidexPress 43, July 2020. - Efficacy of Directional Microphones in Open Fittings Under Realistic Signal-to-Noise Ratios Using Widex MOMENT Hearing AidsBy
By Francis Kuk, Neal Ruperto, Christopher Slugocki, Petri Korhonen
Published in Hearing Review, June 9, 2020 - Reducing Hearing Aid Delay for Optimal Sound Quality: A New Paradigm in Processing
By Laura Winther Balling, Oliver Townend, Georg Stiefenhofer, Wendy Switalski
Published in Hearing Review, April 23, 2020 - SoundSenseLearn When Average is Not Enough
By Laura Winther Balling, Niels Søgaard Jensen, Oliver Townend, Wendy Switalski
Published in Hearing Review, February 18, 2020
WIDEX PUBLICATIONS IN 2019
- Challenges of Instant-Fit Ear Tips: What Happens at the Eardrum?
By Laura Winther Balling, Niels Søgaard Jensen, Sueli Caporali, Jens Cubick, Wendy Switalski
Published in Hearing Review, December 18, 2019 - Evaluation of Auditory Reality and Hearing Aids Using an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Approach
By Niels Søgaard Jensen, Ole, Hau, Dina Lelic, Petra Herrlin, Florian Wolters, Karolina Smeds
Published in ICA proceedings, September 2019 - Effects of Personalising Hearing-Aid Parameter Settings Using a Real-Time Machine-Learning Approach
By Niels Søgaard Jensen, Laura Winther Balling, Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen
Published in ICA proceedings, September 2019 - Right at home with WIDEX REMOTE CARE
By Marianne Sonne, Laura Winther Balling, Eva Lilja-Nilsson
Published in Hearing Review, May 21, 2019 - Perceptual Effects of Adjusting Hearing-Aid Gain by Means of a Machine-Learning Approach Based on Individual User Preference
By Niels Søgaard Jensen, Ole Hau, Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen, Thor Bundgaard Nielsen, Søren Vase Legarth
Published in Trends in Hearing, May 20, 2019 - Machine Learning in Widex Evoke: Percpetual Benefits of SoundSense Learn
By Niels Søgaard Jensen, Oliver Townend
Published as WidexPress 42, May 2019
WidexPress 51: Widex Zen Theapy & Widex SoundRelax: A compilation of evidence
WidexPress 49: Sound quality and comfort with instant ear-tips: From the lab to real life
WidexPress 48: Personalized Compression with Widex Moment >
WidexPress 47: Further Improvements to Fitting for Widex MOMENT >
WidexPress 46: Asking the Experts – Hearing Care Professionals’ View of Widex >
WidexPress 45: Widex MOMENT ™ - TruAcoustics™ optimised >
WidexPress 44: Widex MOMENT™ - Quantifying acoustic distortions >
WidexPress 43: Widex MOMENT™ - this sound changes everything >
WidexPress 42: Machine learning in WIDEX EVOKE: Perceptual benefits of SoundSense Learn >
WidexPress 41: Real-life benefits of WIDEX EVOKE: and early look at end-user survey results >
WidexPress 40: Real-life hearing part 2: Assesment and solutions >
WidexPress 39: Real-life hearing part 1: The theory behind >
WidexPress 38: The Widex fitting rationale for EVOKE >
WidexPress 37: A compilation of Widex ZEN therapy evidence >
WidexPress 36: UNIQUE solutions for first time hearing aid wearers >
WidexPress 35: Dream evidence compilation >
WidexPress 34: DREAM CIC MICRO >
WidexPress 32: An Introduction to Widex Zen Therapy >
WidexPress 29: Evidence for the Benefits of Binaural Amplification >
WidexPress 28: Evidence Supporting the use of Zen as a Tool for Tinnitus and Relaxation >
WidexPress 27: Tinnitus and the Widex Zen program >
WidexPress 26: Why the size of a hearing aid matters when fitting infants and young children >
WidexPress 25: AISA: An accurate method for assessing the acoustic effect of the ear - mould >
WidexPress 24: Extending hearing aid bandwidth >
WidexPress 23: The Speech Enhancer in mind440 >
WidexPress 22: The ZEN program from Widex >
WidexPress 20: Preliminary field and laboratory trials with Senso Diva >
WidexPress 19: Batteries from Widex >
WidexPress 18: Design Considerations in Directional Microphones >
WidexPress 17: Evaluation of a digital power hearing aid: Senso P38 >
WidexPress 16: Sound Stabilizer and SIS >
WidexPress 15: Audiological background and design rationale of Senso Dica >
WidexPress 14: Using a DSP Instrument Fitting Protocol for Pediatric Cases >
WidexPress 13:Rationale for Binaural Hearing Aid Fittings >
WidexPress 10: Hearing Aids and Cellular Phone >
EVIDENCE ARCHIVE
Below you will find a selection of Widex EVOKE related publications available online. Get in touch with us if you wish to hear more and let us uncover your needs and explore how we can help your business.
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Below you will find a selection of Widex BEYOND related publications available online. Get in touch with us if you wish to hear more and let us uncover your needs and explore how we can help your business.
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Kuk F. 2017. Going BEYOND: A Testament of Progessive Innovation. Hearing Review, 24(1[Suppl]), 3-21.
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Below you will find a selection of Widex UNIQUE related publications available online. Get in touch with us if you wish to hear more and let us uncover your needs and explore how we can help your business.
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Below you will find a selection of Widex DREAM related publications available online. Get in touch with us if you wish to hear more and let us uncover your needs and explore how we can help your business.
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