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Dr. Dillon, you wrote I think the first text book on hearing aids
many years ago. Well I don't think it was the first text book on hearing aids, but it was the
first one simply called Hearing Aids.
Okay, gotcha, and I see we have a second edition now. Yeah, I'm feeling happy at
the moment because
I actually finished the work on it really just two or three days ago
getting the index out. This is not a properly printed one. It is sort of a made up one
just to
have here for the conference. So yes, it's
fresh on my mind. How many years between the two books?
About 12 years gap between the first one; 11 or 12,
the first one coming and the second. So with all those changes in hearing aids
in those years,
did the whole book have to be rewritten? I kept the same structure. I put an extra
chapter in, especially on directional microphones because they are
such an important feature in hearing aids,
and that left room for another chapter just on advanced signal processing
schemes other than
directional microphones, but every chapter changed.
What I did was look in two directions; one
what technological changes were there in terms of what the hearing aid companies
had brought out?
and on the other hand, what research publications were there in the last
12 years and what implications do they have for what a clinician should
be doing?
So putting those two together, really there's just continuous changes
through the book. Can you tell us a little bit about the photo on the front
cover there?
Yes. It's actually my wife and my daughter taken
twenty years ago, or 21 years ago,
and with hearing aids photoshopped on them. I liked it because it is such
a nice photo and there is communication going on
and that's really what we're trying to achieve with fitting of hearing
aids.
It captured that. When will it be available for purchase?
In late May, early June is when it will come out of the printer. They are
at the printer's now. Well congratulations. Thank you.