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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.
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.
By Laura Winther Balling, Anne Mette Jeppesen, Jens Brehm Bagger Nielsen, and Dana Helmink
Published in Hearing Review, November 4, 2022
This article presents the strong case for personalization of compression for the individual hearing aid user, reviewing research that indicates large variation between individuals and situations in preferences and performance. Such personalization has, until now, been limited to complicated adjustments of gain and compression in the fitting software. In contrast, the new Widex MySound enables the user to personalize compression in a completely new way.
By Dina Lelic, Georg Stiefenhofer, Ellen Lundorff, and Tobias Neher
Published in JASA Express Letters, October 2022
A key factor influencing sound quality in open-fit hearing aids is the processing delay. Previously, the delay limit needed for ensuring optimal (rather than tolerable) sound quality has not been established. Therefore, this article investigates the relationship between preferred sound quality and five processing delays ranging from 0.5 to 10 ms in listeners with normal and impaired hearing. The listeners with normal hearing showed a strong preference for the shortest delay. For the listeners with impaired hearing, participants with mild hearing losses below 2 kHz also preferred the shortest delay. This adds to other evidence indicating the advantages of the ultra-low delay Widex PureSound program for hearing aid users with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
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
Based on a strong heritage in tinnitus relief, Widex SoundRelax offers new sounds generated in the hearing aid that combine unique fractal music with modulated wave-like sounds. This article reports a study showing the potential of Widex SoundRelax to support hearing aid users’ relaxation, concentration, and well-being. This is intended to combat stress and sustain health for users with and without tinnitus.
By Petri Korhonen, Francis Kuk, Chris Slugocki, and Greg Ellis
Published in HearingReview, June 2022
Wearers of Widex PureSound report that sounds feel “more three-dimensional” and as “having more layers”. This article explores the effects of reverberation on listening with hearing aids and explains why the processing delay in the hearing aid may affect the listener’s experience of the space around them. It also reports an experiment that shows better discrimination of listening positions with the ZeroDelay PureSound program than with standard-delay hearing aids.
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
This peer-reviewed article investigates how much the acoustics of instant ear-tips varies between individual users and between separate insertions for the same user. The results show high variability between individuals in both vent effect (how much sound escapes the ear through venting and leakage) and real-ear occluded insertion gain (how much direct sound can enter the ear with a given ear-tip). This high variability is an important argument for the TruAcoustics™ algorithm in Compass GPS™, which adjusts gain to the acoustics of the individual ear canal, rather than assuming averages that may be wrong for the unique user. For the individual user, the article shows stable results across multiple insertions, which means that once an individualized fit is conducted with TruAcoustics, this can be expected to be stable also in real life.
By Eline Borch Petersen
Published in Sage journals, June 22,2022
This peer-reviewed study shows how directional processing in Widex Moment™ hearing aids improved neural speech tracking in a participant group of 11 older hearing aid users. The study used EEG data to investigate how well the speech signal was reconstructed neurally, comparing listening to speech in quiet with listening to speech in noise with and without directionality. The results show that reconstructing of the to-be-attended speech improved significantly when directionality was applied, as well as when removing background noise entirely. The study also shows improved task performance with than without directionality, but no significant difference in subjective ratings of listening effort. Together, these results indicate that hearing-aid signal processing impacts the neural processing of sounds and that neural speech tracking is indicative of the benefits associated with applying hearing-aid processing algorithms.
Optimizing Sound in Signal Processing and Hearing Aid Fitting
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 >
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