Widex Allure: Balancing Feedback Management with Sound Quality
Course: #40498Level: Intermediate 1.5 Hours 19 Reviews
This course explains how the tradeoff between feedback management and sound quality in hearing aids may be optimally managed and shows the benefits of doing so on one hearing aid platform, compared with a previous generation as well as other current products.
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to describe what frequency shifting is and how it is used in current hearing aid processing.
- After this course, participants will be able to discuss the trade-off between feedback management and sound quality in hearing aids.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain how the Widex Allure Dynamic Feedback Controller balances feedback management and sound quality and how this impacts hearing aid listeners’ experience.
Course created on March 31, 2025
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Laura Winther Balling
PhD
Laura Winther Balling holds an MA in psycho- and neurolinguistics and a PhD in experimental psycholinguistics and has done extensive research on the mental mechanisms underlying spoken and written language comprehension. After she joined WS Audiology in 2018, her research has focused on the effects of hearing aid signal processing on listeners in the lab and real life.
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Matthias Vormann
PhD
Matthias Vormann is a physicist specialized in audiology and psychoacoustics. He obtained his diploma in physics in 1995 and his PhD in 2011 from the University of Oldenburg. He has been working at Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH since 2005, on scientific issues in clinical studies, industry studies and publicly funded projects. His research focuses on developing new methods for measuring the subjective and objective benefits of hearing aids.
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Steen Rose
Steen Rose is a clinical research audiologist whose work focuses on designing and performing studies with listeners with hearing loss. He joined Widex in 2006 and has since worked on many aspects of hearing aid and accessory development, including both digital signal processing, mechanical construction, and measurement and recording of sound in hearing aids in connection with troubleshooting and study design.
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Ole Hau
MSc
Ole Hau is a digital signal processing specialist and holds an MSc in electrical engineering. He has worked with sound quality optimization at Bang & Olufsen, and as an independent digital signal processing and embedded software consultant, before joining Widex in 2005. He is currently working as an Audiological Research Engineer in WS Audiology, where his research, work and interests include general audiology, psychoacoustics, models of the auditory system, hearing loss compensation, acoustics, compression and noise reduction algorithms.
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Financial: Laura Winther Balling is an employee of WS Audiology. Non-financial: Laura Winther Balling has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Financial: Matthias Vormann is an employee of Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH. Non-financial: Matthias Vormann has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Financial: Steen Rose is an employee of WS Audiology. Non-financial: Steen Rose has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Financial: Ole Hau is an employee of WS Audiology. Non-financial: Ole Hau has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Sponsor Disclosure: This Course is presented by Widex in partnership with AudiologyOnline.
Content Disclosure: This learning event focuses on Widex products and services and will not include info on other products or services.
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