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2020-07-20 White Paper

Improving communication with face masks

The use of masks and increased distancing while talking because of the coronavirus pandemic is a unique challenge that can be very frustrating even for people with normal hearing. But for the hard of hearing it can prove especially difficult. Signia offers flexible solutions for you as a Hearing Care Professional (HCP) to optimize speech intelligibility in this “new normal” world. This new audiology bulletin explains the adverse effects of masks and social distancing on speech understanding and how HCPs can improve their clients’ hearing experience with the right advice and program settings in Connexx.

2020-04-27 White Paper

StreamLine Mic

The StreamLine Mic from Signia is a versatile Bluetooth streaming device and remote microphone all in one. Its Bluetooth functionality allows it to pair to multiple Bluetooth enabled devices including Android and iOS (Apple) devices. And the remote microphone capabilities help make even though most difficult listening situations easier to manage. This white paper examines advantages and the performance of the StreamLine Mic

2019-07-16

Industry Research: Clinical Comparison of Premier Hearing Aids

Premier hearing aid products from three leading manufacturers were placed in head-to-head competition to assess key benefits for the wearer. For the speech recognition measures, the Signia product was significantly superior, and this was true for three different background noise conditions. Subjective judgements for different attributes of the listening experience were equal for the three products, suggesting that superior speech understanding can be achieved without causing negative effects regarding the acoustic environment.

VOL. 6 • ISSUE 4 • 2019

2019-03-21 White Paper

Closing the Open Fitting: An Effective Method to Optimize Speech Understanding

The findings of this research clearly show that the coupling system chosen by the HCP can have a substantial effect on subsequent speech understanding in background noise for the patient. The mean additional signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) benefit for a closed fitting was 3 dB, which corresponds to an impressive improvement in speech understanding of approximately 50%. This constitutes a significant advantage for the patient’s daily life in terms of social interaction. This benefit should not easily be foregone, especially in light of the clinically proven high acceptance of closed fittings based on the patient’s improved perception of his or her own voice as a result of Signia Own Voice Processing.

The Hearing Review, March 21, 2019

2018-11-14 Publication

Novel Benefits in CROS and BiCROS Hearing Aid Fitting Technology

This Hearing Review article presents a study which demonstrates that the two new CROS/BiCROS systems from Signia—Pure 312 Nx CROS with Narrow directionality and Silk Nx CROS—provide a superior solution to the daily listening problems encountered by people with single-sided deafness (SSD).

Hearing Review

2018-07-20 Publication

Own Voice Processing Has People Talking More

OVP improves the perception of the the wearer's own voice, but did you know that a recent study shows that it also has wearers participating more in communication settings?

Hearing Review

2018-04-23 White Paper

3D Classifier

At first glance, a tiny hearing aid and a self-driving car don’t have much in common. However, on a technological level there are a couple of similarities: self driving cars use a variety of sensors to collect real-time information about the environment such as GPS, optical cameras, specialised radar, and accelerometers.

2018-03-15 Publication

Perception of Own Voice Wearing Hearing Aids: Why "Natural" is the New Normal

A study conducted at the University of Northern Colorado shows that OVP is appropriate for both open and closed fittings, and for different fitting rationales.

AudiologyOnline

2017-12-17 Publication

Sound Quality as the Key to User Acceptance

This AudiologyOnline article describes Nx improvements in sound quality.

AudiologyOnline.com

2017-10-29 Publication

A New Own Voice Processing System for Optimizing Communication

This Hearing Review publication describes how Own Voice Processing works and details study results validating its effectiveness.

Hearing Review

2017-07-17 Publication

Clinical Study Shows Significant Benefit of Own Voice Processing

This Hearing Review publication reports that Signia OVP provides a substantial improvement in own-voice satisfaction, and that this improvement is present for different fitting strategies, and for different ear-canal couplings.

Hearing Review

2017-02-03 video

Getting Started with OVP Video

This video describes the easy Own Voice Processing (OVP™) activation procedure for your patient.

2017-02-01 Backgrounder

Motion SP: The New Super Power

Although only a small percentage of our patients suffer from severe to profound hearing loss, designing the ideal hearing solution for them brings unique challenges. With their particular listening needs in mind, Signia has offered generations of hearing solutions with increasingly sophisticated technology.