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aids. One estimate suggests nearly 75% of people with hearing loss in the United States do not use hearing aids.associated with hearing aids," says Yen-fu Cheng, the study's corresponding author and an otolaryngologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital."Many patients are reluctant to wear them because they don't want to appear old. So, we started exploring if there're are more accessible alternatives.
Cheng and his team wanted to investigate whether AirPods, which are widely available devices, can serve as alternative hearing aids. The team compared Airpods 2 and AirPods Pro—the model with a noise canceling feature—with a type of premium hearing aids and a basic pair of hearing aids. The premium hearing aids cost $10,000, and the basic type cost $1,500. Both models of AirPods are significantly cheaper than hearing aids, with AirPods 2 costing $129 and AirPods Pro costing $249.
"Two reasons may account for the difference between the two scenarios," says Ying-Hui Lai, the study's co-author and a bioengineer at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei."It may relate to the trajectories soundwaves travel with, as well as the advanced signal processing algorithm by premium hearing aids. This finding will hopefully inspire engineers to design hearing aids and personal sound amplification products that are more sensitive in certain directions.
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