Suffer Hearing Loss , Wear This Application

Special smart phone application hearing impaired is being developed . Later , this will facilitate their application while listening to the phone , music and video .
According to the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders mnenyebutkan there are 36 million adult Americans have a hearing loss . Only one-fifth of that number who use hearing aids .
"People will always need good hearing aids , but what distinguishes one company to another is how the device connectivity with smart phones , and hearing aids will require an application , " said Lars Viksmoen , CEO of GN Resound , tool makers hearing is headquartered in Denmark , as reported by Reuters on Tuesday ( 11/3 ) .
Smart resound , thus the name of the application, making hearing aids as headphones and helps users configure their hearing aid settings remotely , such as volume , treble and bass . The application can also be given specific settings for different places .

"If you for example are in a place that often you go , like a coffee shop , you can make adjustments and will mark the location of your application , so if you come to the coffee shop , a hearing aid will remember the settings you made , " said Laurel Christensen , director of the company hearing .
 For example , he said , to a place with a heavy noise , then the application can change the conversation stream on hearing aids to make it more clear . The application can also help people looking for their hearing aids , if they forgot to put where .
 " When you walk in the house , bookmark bar signal becomes stronger when the tools are getting closer , " said Christensen .
 The company manufactures hearing aids , resound called Linx , which costs about $ 6,000 per pair . " I think we 'll see more innovation in this field because of the baby boomers . They are interested in the technology and they want to always connect with the technology , " he said .
 Other applications connect the hearing aid to the smart phone through an intermediary device , including miniTek Remote App for Android which connect Siemens hearing aids through a streamer .
 Steve Aiken , associate professor of audiology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia , Canada , said the application is beneficial because it aids pendengaranan connect to other technologies that have been integrated with people's lives .