Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues.

Objectives: Current hearing aids have a limited bandwidth, which limits the intelligibility and quality of their output, and inhibits their uptake. Recent advances in signal processing, as well as novel methods of transduction, allow for a greater useable frequency range. Previous studies have shown a benefit for this extended bandwidth in consonant recognition, talker-sex identification, and separating sound sources.

Light-Driven Contact Hearing Aid for Broad-Spectrum Amplification: Safety and Effectiveness Pivotal Study.

Objective: Demonstrate safety and effectiveness of the light-driven contact hearing aid to support FDA clearance.

Study Design: A single-arm, open-label investigational-device clinical trial.

Setting: Two private-practice and one hospital-based ENT clinics.

Extended High-Frequency Bandwidth Improves Speech Reception in the Presence of Spatially Separated Masking Speech.

Objectives: The hypothesis that extending the audible frequency bandwidth beyond the range currently implemented in most hearing aids can improve speech understanding was tested for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired participants using target sentences and spatially separated masking speech.

Design: The Hearing In Speech Test (HIST) speech corpus was re-recorded, and four masking talkers were recorded at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz.

Preliminary evaluation of a light-based contact hearing device for the hearing impaired.

Objective: To assess the safety, stability, and performance of the broad-spectrum, light-based contact hearing device (CHD) on listeners with hearing impairment.

Study Design: Feasibility study.

Setting: Single-site research and development facility.