Research & publications

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About Starkey Research

Our researchers at Starkey are leaders in developing innovative hearing aid technology and exploring important questions about hearing loss, balance, cognition, and the connections between hearing and socialization. Bringing together expertise in clinical audiology, psychoacoustics, cognitive psychology, acoustical engineering, and advanced statistics, our team aims to continually improve the lives of patients by ensuring that our technologies provide opportunities for a healthy lifestyle, social participation, and excellent, effortless hearing.

Volunteers from the local community, with and without hearing loss, work in partnership with our researchers to provide insightful feedback and data on the benefits of our newest hearing technology, signal processing algorithms, healthable technologies, smart sensors, and intelligent assistant features. Through this research we continue to redefine what a hearing aid can do — for example, by using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to make the experience of listening in noisy environments less challenging and effortful, and by using sensors to detect falls. 

Besides pushing the boundaries on hearing aid technology, our researchers also work to verify and validate every feature, ensure usability, and develop evidence-based audiological practices. In short, the research team at Starkey truly helps to define what it is to Hear Better, Live Better.

Starkey’s research facility is located at our global headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Research

Recent publications

Leveraging DNN white paper

Leveraging DNN in Starkey Edge AI

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), a subset of machine learning, open the possibility of creating more sophisticated algorithms with better accuracy. This white paper provides the Edge AI benefits with DNN processing being incorporated into the hearing aid’s signal path to better help discern between speech and noise signals.
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The sound of silence white paper

The Sound of Silence: The Relationship Between Expansion and EIN

In linear operation, the equivalent input noise (EIN) of a hearing aid is a practical metric to quantify the constant internal noise independently of the fitting parameters. This white paper revisits the definitions around EIN; how it is measured and interpreted; and ambiguities around this number when comparing across manufacturers.
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Balance Assessment white paper

Development and Validation of Starkey’s Balance Assessment Feature

Fall risk is understood to be multifactorial, and numerous behavioral, physiological, and pathological mechanisms could underlie the reported associations between hearing impairment and falls. This white paper presents various studies on the effectiveness of Starkey’s Balance Assessment feature with the My Starkey mobile app.
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