The center of the tech world finally seems to have discovered a technology that's already at the center of many people's lives: hearing aids. In recent months several hot Silicon Valley venture-capital-funded startups have emerged aiming to address one of the world's biggest consumer technology opportunities -- reaching the tens of millions of consumers with hearing loss who currently don't use hearing aids. Read more
Consumer electronics behemoth Samsung Electronics is reportedly planning to enter the hearing products market, possibly by the time it launches its next-generation Galaxy S7 smartphone in 2016. Read more
After posting the findings from our recent expert-analysis of the Soundhawk (Part I and Part II), we received a few extremely enlightening emails from the company's Chief Scientific Officer, Drew Dundas, PhD. We asked Dr Dundas if we'd be able to post some of his responses here on Hearing Tracker. He agreed to share some of his thoughts publicly, and consolidated his thoughts into the following text. All questions and comments should be left in the comment section, at the bottom of this post.
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Last month we posted our analysis of the Soundhawk's performance in a hearing aid test box. If you didn't have a chance to read the review (and don't have time now), here's the bullet-point summary of the results:
The Soundhawk provides amplification successfully through a range of pitches important for understanding speech
The directional microphone system provides some signal-to-noise enhancement in the pitches that matter - works best in the "Indoor" setting
We are seeing 5-7dB of noise reduction for steady state noises between 50-70dB
The wireless mic system works well in quiet and in noise Read more
