International Journal of Advancements in Technology
Open Access

Abstract

Digital Hearing Aids: The Cochlear Approach

Ankit Rana, Mohit Anand,Paschim Vihar

One may encounter numerous forms of hearing losses in daily life. From conductive to sensorineural form of it, there has been a strong surge to develop compensating means which could stand sufficient, both on the performance and the economic scale. From the seventeenth century itself, hearing aids had made their presence felt as a gift for the impaired, but the aspect of their bulkiness, high cost and relatively lower flexibility and poor efficiency overshadowed them. Over the decades, digital domain’s utilization for hearing aid’s operation has curbed the mentioned drawbacks significantly. The present paper deals with the details of how a digitized counterpart scores over the obsolete ones and also how measures can be incorporated to effectively utilize the frequency spectrum in order to curb the hearing impairment density across the globe. Several simulations were carried out over a cochlear prosthesis simulator and results on a comparative basis were tabulated too. The authors have also concluded that this adaptive digitization in the implementation of cochlear hearing-aids possesses good future potential.