How Hearing Aids Reduce Background Noise | Digital Noise Reduction (DNR)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- How Hearing Aids Reduce Background Noise | Digital Noise Reduction (DNR). Dr. Cliff Olson, Audiologist and founder of Applied Hearing Solutions in Phoenix Arizona, discusses the factors that will improve speech understanding in Background noise and how Hearing Aids use Digital Noise Reduction to help.
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One of my students told me that her classmates are doing their dissertation comparing performance in noise with Apple AirPods to traditional hearing aids. I will make sure to forward the results to you once they get them.
Love it. Thanks Sarah!
Another great job, Dr. Cliff. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Took me several trip to get better measure for background noise supplements speech-in-noise to ensure I hear minimum of 70% if not 100% in challenging situations that can withstand somehow.
Oticon OPN S1 generally is very loud somehow does okay in background noises if tuned properly as accordingly. 👍
Thanks for preparing these extremely informative videos. I"m a HA wearer who always wants to understand what I am wearing and how it works. Noisy environments are still problematic, and has me playing with my HA app to try different programming.
WOW. Fantastic video!
Great information, Dr. Cliff! Sincerely, Dr. Mike
Thanks Dr. Mike!
Thanks good job Dr.
You're most welcome. 👍
Dear Dr. Cliff, you definitely need to make a good video on channels and how they affect pricing/performance. For instance, Phonak does not provide many channels, limiting to 20 at most and Oticon have hearing aids models with over 50 channels. This is an important question.
Dr Cliff, thank you for another excellent explanation of hearing technology presented to be easily understood by anyone. SNRL is an important factor, one I now understand better.
Thanks Drew. Happy to help!
Love the explanation! Super informative. Now I know why my Widex Evokes work so well! Feel fortunate to be a subscriber to your channel.
Awesome! Thank you!
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Hi Dr. Cliff. I recently got fitted for a new digital hearingaid - Signia Motion 7 primax. I've a severe hearing loss and volume is key. That is, I've a conductive hearing loss. Believe it or not, my last hearing aid was in 2009 and the model was in '05. :( Yes, it was a powered hearing aid.
I've been visiting your channel to be better informed on what I'm getting into. I do have some questions related to background noise. My aid has a user volue range of 1 to 16 with a default of 8. I'm n a quiet home. For some reason, I can totally ower the user volume to 1 and still hear your video. How? Yes, I'm also discovering that my aid seem to know when I'm by a mic and speaker system and uses the telecoil and I don't have to do anything. NICE! I do up the volume when I'm in a car and use focus listeninng when talking to a friend with a soft voice. How long does it take for the algorithm to learn what's needed?
I was tested less than a year ago and sure enough my hearing loss is classic according to the chart. I found out my medical insurance would pick up a nice portion of my hearing aids cost. I was fitted with the top of the line model of a very popular brand. I asked the place to program one of the three settings for reducing background noise as much as possible. After 8 months I want to throw these $3,000.00 pieces of crap in the garbage and be like my dad -refuse to wear hearing aids ever again. I am now starting all over again though I did write a 'courtesy' letter to the hearing aid company asking them for any suggestions before I throw in their towel. I am now on a quest for directional hearing aids, the best ones I can find. Looking for suggestions and taking my time. Thank you for reading this.
Microphone directivity as well as the amount of noise reduction shall be chosen or changed by the user according to his/her preferences in a specific environment and situation. User shall be under control of his/her hearing via simple and intuitive smartphone app. That is what we are trying to do in our Wear&Hear line of personalized Bluetooth hearing amplifiers.
The number one complaint people have is trouble hearing in noise. Even if it’s only a tiny bit of hearing loss
Thanks, Please do a video (or 2) on sports and hearing aids, I imagine out in Phoenix you have a lot of patients that do sports and can't hear :- ). My focus is running - ear sweat, swimming - waterproof and biking (wind noise). I would like to get in the ear hearing aids. I recognize that this is pretty extreme but even hiking (say climbing Camelback Mt (when I lived there)) will have me soaked in sweat.
Hey Bob, I'll see what I can do.
I have the same question regarding hearing aids that perform well when playing sports that cause excessive sweating. Can you tell us which brands of hearing aids are most likely not to fail under these circumstances, if any? Thanks for all your great videos, Dr. Cliff.
Could you do a short program on power aids for people with thresholds over 100 dB? My Phonak Naida Vs are reaching the end of their design life and am looking for something to replace them.
Thanks Dr. Olson - you alsi managed to being a reference to music in this presentation. Your videos are INSTRUMENTAL l in helping us make good choices in both choosing a device and a care giver. (pun intended)
LOL, thanks Bob. Very clever. 😂
Doctor Cliff, AuD hey doc so what's your take on the Bernafon hearing aids? Also, any idea if they can stream phone calls and audio from an Android phone?
@@meric12131415 nope, they still need a streamer to work with Android.
@@DrCliffAuD eh? So you can't stream natively from an android phone? Does the same apply for an iPhone? Or is that natively baked in to the iPhone it's self?
Doctor Cliff, AuD I probably should have been more specific so that's on me my bad I was wondering if I could use the Bernafon hearing aids for just purely audio like music streaming minus the streamer for phone calls of course
Does lyric hearing ad will work with roger on?
when i am sleeping at night i hear ringing in my two ears sometime one ear
and i am mild to moderate hearing loss .
which hearing aid u think is good for me ?
Thanks alot🤎
In your opinion, are there any hearing aids with effective directional microphones available? I am assuming from your comment at the end of the video that a remote microphone helps more than "...even the best hearing aid in the world programmed perfectly." that your answer will be "no". My experience is that digital noise reduction doesn't help me as much as I would like. Good explanations, as always. Your explanation of "channels" helped me understand that concept better than my previous attempts.
There are good hearing aids with good directional microphones, but none of them will be as effective as a good remote microphone.
@@DrCliffAuD Thank you. Do you think they outperform digital? They would be more convenient than using a remote. I would like to try one. Can/will you name any ? Unfortunately, from the perspective not being able to your professional services, I live far from your office.
Pecan Lodge at 1:12! Yumm!
I had a hearing test because I have a very difficult time understanding people in noisy environments, but the test was all in silence, so it showed no hearing loss. I told the ENT and Audiologist that I specifically can’t hear when there’s background noise, but they said that’s “normal” and that hearing loss is measured in a perfectly quiet environment. It’s really frustrating to not understand people and not be able to follow a conversation when it seems like no one else is struggling to follow. Is there really nothing I can do for this?
Don't know where to start with this one. Just because you test "normal" it doesn't mean that you can hear "normally" in background noise. The reason we have a variety of speech-in-noise tests is to identify if your difficulty is increased with noise present. There is even research that indicates that the majority of individuals with normal hearing and difficulty in background noise can received significant benefit with low-levels of amplification with hearing devices.
Doctor Cliff, AuD Thanks for the reply! Yeah, all the tests they did with me were in silence, even though I said I’m fine in quiet environments. A friend thought I should get a second opinion, but then Covid happened and we couldn’t go anywhere anymore, so I’ve just been waiting.
I have the Oticon OPN S2 hearing aids. If there is a fan or motor running my speak recognition takes a backseat. If a house fan is on watching television is useless to me as all I hear is the fan. What adjustments if any are possible? I feel like I wasted my money on these aids.
It sounds like a programming flaw. There are programs within the hearing aid that can be added to help you with background noise. You would have to switch it manually by clicking buttons or using your phone
@@shilpap.5446 My sister has Siemens Signia YX51622 and she faces the same problem. Can these hearing aids be reprogrammed or corrected after their purchase? It is still under warranty period.
@@mayflower1139 Of course. It is important to exhaust all options to make those hearing aids work before buying new ones. This is an extreme resort.
I have Kirkland KS-10 hearing aids. The problem I have is when I'm in a slightly noisy environment and get a phone call, when I answer it and start talking the caller hears too much noise to understand me. Is there a setting I need to adjust to improve this?
Nope, its a huge problem with the KS 10s
@@DrCliffAuD Thank you! I've also looked on line and no one has addressed this, so I suspect it is a problem. BTW does the digital signal processing help?
Why don't you have text in this video and some other videos, too?
Closed Captions? All of my videos have them.
I hear this High Pitch junebug noise 24/7 anyone else?