An agreement to equip its entire family of premium digital hearing aids with sophisticated sound-processing software from Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd of Australia has been announced today by America Hears, Inc. By delivering the most advanced hearing aids direct to consumers and supporting them over the internet with a flexible choice of programmable solutions, according to Henry C. Smith, America Hears CEO, naming Dynamic Hearing its Supplier of Choice and standardizing on the company's robust software platform will enable America Hears to continue expanding the global hearing-aid market.
Including hearing aids and headsets, Dynamic Hearing is a closely held Australian technology company that develops and licenses advanced digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and software to international manufacturers of personal communication devices. The most sophisticated software available for digital hearing aids is its ADRO® (Advanced Dynamic Range Optimization) amplification technology. With products that continuously adapt to the changing acoustical environment as well as to users' specific personal hearing profiles, the ADRO® Digital Sound Processing platform's real-time statistical analysis and automatic-adjustment capabilities enable hearing-aid designers to optimize the listening experience.
Developed for the current and future generations of powerful digital signal processing chips, Dynamic Hearing's ADRO algorithm, provides performance superior to the compression technologies used in many of today's hearing aids. Hearing-aid users, in trials conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Innovation, preferred ADRO over compression technologies 74% of the time.
America Hears is the world's only manufacturer of premium digital hearing aids to sell and support its products directly over the internet. America Hears, by making appropriately priced hearing-assistance products easily available to a broader market than ever before, is helping to expand the hearing-aid industry, which has experienced disappointingly slow growth in spite of the rapidly growing population of Baby Boomers suffering from age-related hearing loss.
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