The first eletrocnic Journal of Otolaryngology in the world
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Year: 2013  Vol. 17   Num. Suppl. 1  - - (62º)
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HEADPHONE WITH HEARING AIDS BUILT-IN
Author(s):
Ricardo Ferreira Bento, Silvio Pires Penteado
Abstract:

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.

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