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In reply to @WhiteHat

@WhiteHat said:

Great time waster. :wink:

@prodigyplace ; @WhiteHat Inthink Apple didnthe toasternthing just to demonstrate tonthe PC crowd that tha Apple chipset had computing power to spare for “nothing” applications like toasters …

Sometimes I think the makers are playing the same game with connectivity: they have “power to spare” for lots of stuff that has nothing to do with hearing, so it’s not the engineers’ fault that you still can’t understand speech in noise with their latest flagship devices…

It’s rhe fault of your age-addled brain!

@SpudGunner said:

Inthink Apple didnthe toasternthing

The software company Berkeley Systems did it, not Apple.

After Dark (software)2

After Dark is a series of computer screensaver software introduced by Berkeley Systems in 1989 for the Apple Macintosh, and in 1991 for Microsoft Windows. Following the original, additional editions included More After Dark, Before Dark, and editions themed around licensed properties such as Star Trek, The Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Marvel, and Disney characters. On top of the included animated screensavers, the program allowed for the development and use of third-party modules, many hundreds of...

My client bought hundreds of licenses to save our monitors. Heh. Yeah that’s why they bought them, not some young jr executive’s desire to sexy up the computers his bosses were getting, all the way up to senior executives. And in those days executives didn’t touch computers, their admins did. It wasn’t unusual for the admins to print up the emails, present them in a pile, and then type in the responses handwritten on the paper. It took a while for them to get the sense of loss from the waste of time involved. But damn, those toasters!

WH

They just announced the “Real” based on the More’s. Introduced in Europe, coming here soon. I have no info.

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In reply to @Volusiano

From Bernafon.

Bernafon’s proprietary signal processing adjusts the gain
20,000 times a second and amplifies each phoneme individually.

Bernafon’s Channel Free technology has been an innovative approach in the area of signal processing, Developed and exclusively used by Bernafone in its hearing aids, it endlessly attunes the gain of the hearing device to augment every ‘phoneme’ independently. Importantly there is no as such channel or band division at any level.

In reply to @Volusiano

Back in the early 2000, Digifocus anybody? Bernafon change its signal processing some time in the early early 2000 there was this product called SWISS EAR, a nice red looking hearing aid with the Swiss flag.

The idea is that after the sound was sample, bernafon DID NOT divide the signal in frequency channels.
By not doing so, they have an ultra fast process which preserved the fine details of the speech signal.

The Swiss ear -did not had noise reduction and it was either loved dearly or hated- I have seen people
hating more than loving.

fast forward 20+ years YES bernafon still uses the same concept SO DOES sonic and Phillips (note the specs) they report BANDS not channels.

The Lower end Bernafon for example the nevara and the cheer sound nearly identical.

In reply to @tenkan

it has more than 23+ years there nothing innovative there.

Chip speeds have increase to a point that channel free does not make sense at all.

Never like the sound of Bernafon and Sonic, they are very subpar instruments

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