애플 에어팟 프로 2: 보청기 기능 개요

### Apple AirPods Pro 2: 새로운 기능으로 청력 건강을 혁신하다
* 🎧 Apple은 **에어팟 프로 2를 보청기처럼 사용할 수 있는 FDA 승인 소프트웨어**를 도입하여 청각 건강 기술에 대한 접근성을 향상시켰습니다.
* 🔊 청력 보호 소프트웨어를 포함한 새로운 기능은 **다음 주 소프트웨어 업데이트**를 통해 공개될 예정이며, **2년이 지난 디바이스의 건강 경험**을 크게 향상시킬 것입니다.
* 약 10분 동안 조용한 환경에서 AirPod를 사용하여 청력 테스트를 실시한 결과, **약간의 청력 손실**이 있는 것으로 나타나 **보청기 기능을 활성화하라**는 메시지가 표시되었습니다.
* 📊 제 결과는 전문 청력도 검사와 비슷했고, **임상 테스트 결과를 앱에 업로드**할 수 있었기 때문에 **Apple의 기술과 전통적인 청각학 관행의 통합**을 보여줄 수 있었습니다.
* 💲 일반 보청기의 가격이 2,000~7,000달러인 상황에서 소프트웨어 업데이트를 통해 **250달러의 청력 건강 제품으로서 AirPod의 잠재력**은 혁신적이면서도 비용 효율적입니다.
* 🔇 향상된 청력 보호 기능은 음질을 유지하면서 유해한 소음 수준을 낮출 수 있어 **시끄러운 음악이 있는 환경에서 유용**하지만, **매우 큰 소음에 대해서는 보호하지 못함**니다.
* 🗣 대화 부스트 기능을 사용하면 **시끄러운 환경에서도 상대방에게 집중**할 수 있어 기존 보청기 없이도 의사소통을 향상시킬 수 있습니다.
* 👂 이러한 발전은 **청력 건강에 대한 대화를 정상화**하고 일반 대중이 기술에 더 쉽게 접근할 수 있게 함으로써 더 많은 사람들이 **청력 손실에 대한 도움을 요청**하도록 장려할 수 있습니다.

애플의 에어팟 프로 2는 합리적인 가격의 보청기로 변신하여 청각 건강에 대한 접근성과 인식을 개선합니다.

these AirPods can be turned into hearing aids, and I've tried it out. I got early access to Apple's FDA-approved software that turns the AirPods Pro 2 into a hearing aid. I've also spent some time testing the new hearing protection software, which helps minimize loud sounds that can impact your hearing. Now, Apple says the new features will be available to the public next week with a software update. Now, as for the hardware here, the AirPods Pro 2, well, these came out 2 years ago, but this update is going to level it up to a whole new health experience. I explored the new features by taking hearing tests and seeing how it compares to a professional audiogram test. I learned a bit about hearing aid technology today and how Apple's tech could make an impact on how people approach the issue of hearing loss. And to do a proper AirPods test, of course, I did a bit of rocking out, so listen up, and I'll tell you all about it. I'm Bridget KY, and in this week's episode of

one more thing. I am taking you through a hands-on first look at Apple's AirPods Pro 2 hearing health software. Let me start by showing you what the hearing test is like. When you update your device, you're going to see hearing health in the AirPod settings, and this is where you're going to find the hearing test. It's got to be a very quiet room to take that test. It takes about 10 minutes, and it checks the seal of the ear tips to make sure you have a good fit for the size of your ears. Now, the test involves you tapping the screen every time you hear these beeping tones, and let me tell you, it does get very faint at a certain point. I needed to concentrate. Now, if it detects the slightest bit of noise in the room, it's going to pause the test to make sure it's really quiet before you begin again. And you can take the test again. In fact, you can take it as many times as you want. It's going to keep a record of all

your tests. My test results showed I did have a little bit of hearing loss, and at this point, I was able to turn on the hearing aid feature, which adjusted to boost the tones that I wasn't picking up on as much. If you are familiar with AirPods transparency mode, where it lets you hear the world around you clearly, you can think of the hearing aid as a more enhanced version of transparency. Now, I don't have the level of hearing loss that would need help from hearing aids, but I still turned it on to just better understand the tech. When it's on, you can also make hearing adjustments, not just to the outside world but to what you're listening to in your AirPods. Under media assist, it's going to apply your hearing aid settings to improve the clarity of music, video, and calls. Now, when I have it turned on and I'm listening to music, I can tell it's putting more of an emphasis on the vocals for me, like highlighting those higher frequencies more, and if I wanted

to make adjustments to the amplification and the balance. Well, I could just dive in deeper into the controls to fine-tune it all. When hearing aid mode is on, your volume controls on the phone also change. You can slide to adjust the volume of the outside environment noise or just the volume of the media you're listening to. A new shortcut menu button will also appear in the control center with this ear icon. It can help you quickly make adjustments. I wanted to see how this would compare to a professional hearing test from an audiologist. I visited the experts at New York Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center. I got a hearing test in a soundproof room at their Audiology Department. It was the classic Beep Test where I raised my hand when I heard the tones. So, it's not too different from Apple's experience, but it was much more controlled and quiet. Now, the professionals, they're going to do a little more than Apple would for me. They tested if I could hear certain words that were said in my ear. Say the word l.

Loaf, and the results though were pretty close to what I got on Apple's test. If you get a test done by a professional, you can actually upload your paper printout results into the app. You can scan it with your phone's camera. Apple nailed this one. The data from my chart on paper showed up exactly the same in the app, and I could apply this test to my AirPod hearing settings. During my visit, I met up with Dr. Justin Gallb at the Columbia University Medical Center to get a better sense of the issues around hearing loss and what other tech is out there for people to test at home. So, there are ways that people can do hearing tests at home. However, it requires some initiative, and you have to be tech-savvy to a degree. You have to find the app, and the question is which app. So, you might want to read about which are good, which get good ratings, which don't. You have to make sure that the headphones you have will be compatible. And so, it can be done, but

the question is, what is the quality? Some apps are better than others. The nice thing about Apple entering a market is typically Apple has good quality products, and you can trust it, and it's widely available, so it just makes it much easier to do. There are over-the-counter hearing aids that do not require a prescription, but prescription hearing aids can cost anywhere between $2,000 and $7,000. So many things about it are exciting. One is the price. $250 for an earphone may be a little on the pricey end, but $250 for an over-the-counter hearing aid is very cheap, and a lot of people have this already, and so the price is free. It will just become a hearing healthcare product through a software update. This is like a nice entry-level device that can help people in certain situations. The battery life is only something like, you know, 6ish hours, so you're not going to be wearing it all day like you would want to with a regular hearing aid. So if you really need a hearing aid, get a real hearing.

aid so to shift gears a bit. Let's also touch on the improved hearing protection features. If it detects harmfully loud sounds, it's going to take that sound wave and pass it through to you at a lower level. And it's designed to keep all the details of the sound there. One example is that it's helpful for loud music. Now, this is not going to help you for Extremely Loud impulse sounds. This is not going to help you at a shooting range or Big Bangs of fireworks. But if you're next to someone banging on a piano, then yes, it can help. I had my husband help me out with this test. The Apple watch will give you a reading of the decibel levels around you. And when he was practicing, I noticed it got anywhere from 90 dB to as high as 100 dB near the piano. That's fortissimo, baby. Around 30 minutes of exposure to this level of sound a day can cause temporary hearing loss. But playing Beethoven doesn't mean we have to lose our hearing like Beethoven. So when I put in AirPods, the

Apple Watch now tells me what I am hearing is lowered down. Sometimes it was about 7 to 10 dB lower from what I observed earlier, but it didn't sound muffled; it preserved the quality of the music. Wearing earplugs can also protect your hearing, of course. Maybe you want to use something like these from Loop, which can adjust for different scenarios. But the idea is that AirPods are aiming to keep the details of the full sound signature, but it's just delivering it to you in your ear at a safer level. So, what is it like in just normal noisy environments? This felt like an appropriate place to test it: New York's noisiest saki bar decibel. And of course, we packed in our bags a decibel reader. After work drinks with my producer Richard showed me that the noise levels at the bar were not too bad. It stayed in roughly around 80 in the green range, and the AirPods were not making any adjustments to lower it for me. This was not as loud as the blaring piano, so the

AirPods didn't need to adjust anything, but it was fascinating to try another hearing aid feature called conversation boost. It will focus in on a person talking in front of you, making it easier to hear someone in a face-to-face conversation if they are about 7 to 10 ft in front of you. And I really did hear Richard so much clearer in a comfortable way, almost like making his voice stand apart from the music and the chatter around us. It's one thing to have me talk about what it's like, but what about someone who actually uses hearing aids every day? Well, in my set camera crew, we have someone who knows this issue well. I met up with my teammate Tara Brown and her mom Nancy, who has been using hearing aids for 10 years. In a quiet library room, we took the test, and you can see it really showed much more hearing loss for her than with my test. If you're used to having these wireless to listen to your music, which I'm not, but if you are, this

is great. Then you take your hearing aid out, plant a real sound, put them in your pocket, and then when you don't need the music, just switch them out again. But it doesn't eliminate for me a real hearing aid. And she also taught me a few things about her high-tech hearing aids, the Jabra Enhanced Pro, which she got online without a prescription after getting a hearing test from an audiologist. And she also controls all with an app now. Although she cannot rely on something like AirPods, which only have a 6-hour battery life, and she needs these all the time, it was interesting to think about if this technology was around when she was younger. Would it have gotten her started on hearing aids sooner? We're going to hear more about people's experiences when the software does come out next week, which you might see in an update on iOS or iPad OS. And the hearing aid features are also supported on Mac OS Sequoia. But it's very interesting to me that we have this item that growing up

We were always told it's going to hurt your ears by playing music too loud all the time, and now it's become something that's supposed to help prevent hearing loss or even help us manage it. But I also think having something so easy for anyone to access might make it easier to show this to a family member and see if they need a hearing test or hearing aid. Dr. Gallb told me that one of the biggest barriers for patients was acceptance that they even needed a hearing aid. Maybe this now makes it easier to get the conversation started and having people be more aware of their hearing loss. Will we start to compare in conversation our hearing loss numbers like we do with our eyesight prescription numbers? Apple says I'm a 12 in my right but a six in my left. How about you? I'm Bridget Cary, and I'll see you next time. There's one more thing to talk about in the world of Apple.

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보청기로서의 애플 에어팟 프로 2

Apple의 FDA 승인을 받은 소프트웨어가 다음 주에 출시되는 새로운 기능을 통해 AirPods Pro 2를 보청기로 전환합니다.

AirPod 설정에서 사용할 수 있는 청력 테스트는 10분 정도 소요되며 잘 맞도록 조정하는 동시에 재시험 옵션도 제공합니다.

보청기 기능은 청력 손실이 있는 사용자를 위해 톤을 높이고 음악, 비디오 및 통화의 선명도를 향상시키는 설정을 적용합니다.

애플의 청력 검사 대 전문 청각학

Apple의 보청기 모드는 외부 소음과 미디어에 대한 볼륨 조절 기능을 제공하며, 빠른 조정을 위한 바로 가기 메뉴가 있습니다.

Apple의 테스트에 대한 사용자 경험은 전문 청력 테스트와 비슷했지만, 후자는 보다 통제된 환경과 추가적인 단어 인식 테스트를 제공했습니다.

이 앱을 통해 사용자는 전문 테스트 결과를 업로드하고 스캔하여 AirPod의 청력 설정에 원활하게 통합할 수 있습니다.

Apple의 보청기 시장 진출은 250달러의 저렴한 가격으로 판매되는 비처방 옵션으로 유망합니다.

이 회사의 기기는 무료 청력 관리를 위한 소프트웨어 업데이트를 제공하는 동시에 향상된 청력 보호 기능도 제공합니다.

하지만 배터리 수명이 약 6시간으로 제한되어 있으며, 매우 큰 소리에는 효과가 없을 수 있음니다.

Apple Watch 및 AirPod: 청력 보호 및 대화 부스트

이제 Apple Watch는 음량을 낮추어 청력을 보호하면서 음악의 음질을 보존합니다.

AirPods는 전체 사운드 시그니처를 유지하면서 안전한 사운드 레벨을 제공하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

AirPods의 대화 부스트 기능은 바로 앞에서 말하는 사람에게 초점을 맞추기 때문에 시끄러운 환경에서도 쉽게 들을 수 있습니다.

이제 처방전 없이 온라인으로 Jabra Enhanced Pro와 같은 첨단 보청기를 구입할 수 있으며 앱을 통해 제어할 수 있습니다.

이러한 디바이스의 접근성이 높아짐에 따라 청력 손실과 청력 검사의 필요성에 대한 대화를 시작하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

곧 출시될 Apple의 소프트웨어 업데이트는 보청기 기능도 지원할 예정이므로 개인이 청력 손실을 더 쉽게 관리할 수 있게 될 것입니다.