White Papers and Studies
Scientific insights for better hearing: explore research on loudness, listening preferences, and global hearing health from both mimi and independent third-party studies.
Why Linear Processing is Insufficient to Compensate for Hearing Loss
Typically in consumer electronic devices, the only vector of control available to the user to compensate for hearing loss is the volume control. Here, we showed that the risk of dose-related harm is actually comparable between EQ and volume-control solutions.
June 2024
Blind Study: Mimi Personalized Sound is Highly Preferred by Listeners
The online study was conducted to blindly assess listeners’ subjective preferences comparing Mimi processing and the unprocessed original.
March 2024
Listening Level Study
The study shows that, on average, listeners of various hearing abilities lower the playback volume and receive a considerably lower sound dose when listening to media with Mimi.
March 2023
Loudness Loss and Restoration
Mimi is not an EQ - it uses a biologically inspired, non-linear processing model to dynamically restore natural loudness perception, unlike fixed-gain EQs.
March 2023
World Hearing Index Report 2021
Mimi’s 2021 World Hearing Index Report on how the world hears, based on 1.5M hearing tests.
October 2021
Validating Smartphone-Based and Web-Based Applications for Remote Hearing Assessment
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the performance, ecological validity, and usability of two freely available smartphone-based hearing assessment apps - Hearing Test (Android) and MimiHearing Test (iOS) - alongside a web-based app, MDHearing Aid.
March 2025
Evaluating the accuracy of a self-administered smartphone hearing test application in a geriatric population
This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of Mimi™ (Berlin, Germany), a commercially available self-administered smartphone hearing test compared to pure tone audiogram (PTA) in terms of both hearing levels and hearing thresholds in our local geriatric population > 65 years-old.
October 2024
The Emerging Future of Mobile Audiometry: A Prospective Validation Study of the Mimi Hearing Test Application
The objective of this study is to assess the accuracy of the Mimi Hearing Test (MHT) mobile application in the detection of air conduction (AC) thresholds and in screening for moderate hearing loss.
August 2024
Virtual audiometric testing using smartphone mobile applications to detect hearing loss
The COVID-19 pandemic drove the need for remote audiometric testing in the form of mobile applications for hearing assessment. This study sought to determine the accuracy of two smartphone-based hearing assessment applications, Mimi and uHear, against the gold standard of in-clinic audiometric testing.
September 2022
A Comparison of Two Tablet-Based Applications for Hearing Screening in Adults
This study utilized a repeated measures, within subject design to assess how the results of two iOS tablet-based hearing screening applications, Mimi Hearing Test and Hearing Test and Ear Age Test, compare to conventional audiometry using calibrated portable audiometer in a quiet room.
August 2022
Pure tone audiometry as assessed by a commercially-available mobile phone application compared to formal audiometry
Comparison of audiometric measurements of commercially available smartphone audiogram application thresholds as compared to gold standard audiometric evaluation.
June 2022
Telemedicine in Audiology. Best practice recommendations from the French Society of Audiology (SFA) and the French Society of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (SFORL)
Recommending the Mimi Hearing Test as a valuable clinical tool for continued service delivery (during CoViD-19 restrictions). Mimi Hearing Test complies with the French National Authority for Health’s framework on the best practices for healthcare apps and connected devices.
October 2020
Study on the Accuracy and Convenience of Three Self-service Pure-tone Audiometry Apps in a Normal-Hearing Population
Objective: To evaluate the accuracy and convenience of self-service hearing test applications (apps) based on mobile smart terminals in individuals with normal hearing. Among the three self-service apps, *伴 and Mimi showed good consistency with clinical pure-tone audiometry in terms of air conduction thresholds, with no significant difference in test duration. [Original work published in Chinese, zh-CN]
June 2020