A historical perspective on digital hearing AIDS: how digital technology has changed modern hearing AIDS.
This article provides the author's perspective on the development of digital hearing aids and how digital signal processing approaches have led to changes in hearing aid design. Major landmarks in the evolution of digital technology are identified, and their impact on the development of digital hearing aids is discussed. Differences between analog and digital approaches to signal processing in hearing aids are identified.
Levitt
Harry
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Advanced Hearing Concepts, Bodega Bay, California 94923, USA. harrylevitt@earthlink.net
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001298:Audiology / Q000266:history*; D006310:Hearing Aids / Q000266:history*; D006311:Hearing Disorders / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted