HEADPHONE WITH HEARING AIDS BUILT-IN

International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology

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ISSN: 18099777
Editor Chefe: Geraldo Pereira Jotz
Início Publicação: 31/12/2009
Periodicidade: Trimestral
Área de Estudo: Medicina

HEADPHONE WITH HEARING AIDS BUILT-IN

Ano: 2013 | Volume: 17 | Número: Suplemento
Autores: Bento RF, Penteado SP
Autor Correspondente: Bento RF | [email protected]

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Resumo Inglês:

INTRODUCTION: Hearing aids were primarily designed to help people to talk. Most recently the hearing industry turned to design hearing aids with Bluetooth® to allow hearing aids users to connect wirelessly its aids to cell phones, smart TVs, stereos, and the likes. Bring music to hearing aids is a good perspective of amelioration of music sensation but lacks as the tiny speakers inside the aids can not offer a true music experience. Resonance, low fidelity, low bandwidht, low bass, are some of drawnbacks of those tiny speakers. Headphones with hearing aids built-in make use of high-fidelity speakers with wideband to offer true bass, real time stereo to music aficionado. OBJECTIVE: Introducing the very first headphones with hearing aids built-in. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was acquired state-of-the art headphone with Bluetooth® and it was implemented digital signal processors (left and right ears) to turn headphone into a new product: headphone with hearing aids built-in. Contemporary fitting software ensures selective amplification without the feedback disturbance. Adjusting the aids can be performed anytime even through Telemedicine. RESULTS: Initial results show up a real music experience to hearing impaired to take the most of wired connection (ordinary TV, non-Bluetooth® devices) and Bluetooth® devices. CONCLUSION: Headphones with hearing aids built-in is a new product to offer a good package of benefits to hearing impaired those can not be matched by the current products in the market place.