New Software 'Hearing Dummies' Pave the Way for Tailor-Made Hearing Aids

Science Daily ^ | June 13, 2011 | Staff + Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

[Red Badger]

Prototype of new hearing aid. (Credit: Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

[Red Badger]

Tinnitus ring list!..................

[PMAS]

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[Glenn]

Tuning this hearing aid would be a difficult process, I think.

And expensive.

I am still waiting for a hearing aid that will recognize what is out of your range and modify it to be in your range. That's software doable, isn't it?

[Red Badger]

I think that’s what they are trying to achieve................

[BluH2o]

Just in time to help me out ... as my doctor so delicately put it ‘you have some age related hearing loss’. Probably didn't help that I was a cannon cocker in the Marine Corps.

[Red Badger]

They do it with cochlear implants.............

[Red Badger]

A friend of mine just got his hearing aids free from the VA............

[WVNan]

My hearing aid does a good job. It’s calibrated via computer. When outside “interference” occurs on a regular basis, I run to my “ear guy” and he calibrates it out. Example: paper crinkling drove me nuts, so he took it out. No more excessive paper noise. A noisy room can be a distraction if it reaches a certain level, but that doesn’t happen too often. I’m very pleased with my little “invisible” hearing device.

[ex-snook]

I’m unhappy with mine. Sounds I don’t want are too loud. Several adjustments with minimum results. I take them out in groups.

[Glenn]

They do it with cochlear implants.............

Since my inner ear was removed and the other one is dying, that's not an option, unfortunately.

[Red Badger]

Do you still have an ear drum?...........

[Glenn]

Ya.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Groups of hearing aids? How many ears ya got?

[Red Badger]

Auditory brainstem implant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_brainstem_implant

[RobRoy]

>>Tinnitus ring list!...<<

I have tinnitus, though it doesn’t bother me. One slight annoyance is that when driving my car on a noisy freeway, the road noise and ringing in my ears tend to combine to give a form of distortion on top of conversation or music.

[pingman]

That’ll do it! Mine was steam turbines and standing to close to the speakers at a J. Giels concert. BAM! The first chord was like the opening scene in “Back to the Future”!

[mountainlion]

I hate it when I hear the tone of the phone ring and wake up to hear nuthing but static and can't get back to sleep.

[Red Badger]

If all I had was tinnitus I’d be happy.
I have tinnitus plus hearing impairment. Left ear almost totally deaf. Right ear better, but for how long, I don’t know...............

[Red Badger]

http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedures/DeviceApprovalsandClearances/Recently-ApprovedDevices/ucm089750.htm