Technology
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Level
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Real-world benefit
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| Made for iPhone (MFi) |
No |
Connects and streams audio directly from selected iPhones, iPods, and iPads into your hearing aids.
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| OVP™ (Own Voice Processing) |
Yes |
The hearing aids learn to detect your own voice and preserve it’s natural sound quality to ensure comfort and acceptability.
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| Rechargeable |
Yes |
Is a rechargeable hearing aid with a built-in lithium-ion battery meaning no disposable batteries are required.
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| Channels |
24 |
This relates to the number of frequency channels that can be adjusted to personalise the hearing aid to your specific hearing loss, listening needs and ear acoustics to help provide a more natural and crisper sound quality.
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| Gain Handles |
12 |
For a more personalised fitting the hearing aids can be adjusted and specifically programmed for different listening environments, such as music, outdoors, party, restaurant etc.
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| TeleCare |
Yes |
The hearing aid can be adjusted remotely.
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| Programmes |
6 |
For a more personalised fitting the hearing aids can be adjusted and specifically programmed for different listening environments, such as music, outdoors when windy and phone. |
| 3D Classifier |
Standard |
The hearing aid detects which listening environment you are in based on your own voice, the different sounds around you and whether you are static or moving using motion detection before automatically adapting to provide you with the optimum sound quality.
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| Speech and noise Reduction |
3 steps |
Reduces unwanted background noise in noisy situations to reduce listening effort and improve speech understanding.
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| eWindscreen |
1 step |
Dampens wind noise when outdoors to reduce listening effort and improve speech understanding.
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| eWindscreen™ binaural |
No |
Wind noise in the hearing aid most affected by wind is replaced by sound of the same frequency of the wind from the opposite and less wind affected hearing aid to provide sound comfort.
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| EchoShield |
No |
Reduces echoes in large and reverberant rooms, such as high ceiling halls and hard surfaced restaurants. |
| SoundSmoothing |
1 step |
Instantly dampens sudden loud sounds that occur in the environment so that they are not uncomfortable.
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| HD Spatial |
Standard |
Mimics how the folds and crease of the outer ear help to locate whether sounds are coming from behind or front of you to give you more awareness of your surroundings. In addition, it helps to provide a more natural and realistic sound quality.
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| Binaural OneMic directionality |
No |
The two hearing aids combine to project towards a single speaker in front of you, even with single microphone technology, when in a loud and noisy listening environment.
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| Narrow directionality |
Standard |
The two hearing aids combine to project a narrow focus towards a single speaker in front of you when in a loud and noisy listening environment. |
| SpeechFocus |
No |
Identifies and boosts speech wherever it is detected in the environment, including from behind you.
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| Spatial SpeechFocus |
No |
Detects the loudest speaker in the environment and streams their speech directly into both hearing aids simultaneously to improve speech understanding.
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| Directional speech enhancement |
No |
Detects sounds from all around when in a quiet place before quickly switching to either a narrow, medium or wide focus towards speech (depending if you are listening to one or several people at once) even if to the side or behind you when in a noisy place.
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| Spatial Configurator: Scan |
No |
The directional beam of the hearing aids can be manually widened or narrowed depending upon whether the listener wants to focus on several or a single speaker when in background noise.
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| Spatial Configurator: Direction |
No |
The hearing aids can be manually directed to focus on sounds either in front, to the sides or from behind and stream them directly into both hearing aids for reduced listening effort and improved speech understanding.
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| HD Music |
No |
Provides a fuller and richer music sound quality in up to three different music scenarios. These include live music, recorded music and when a musician is playing music themselves.
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| Extended bandwidth |
No |
A boost of high-frequency sound up to 12 kHz to provide more crispness and brightness to music.
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| Frequency compression |
Yes |
Coverts and squashes high frequency sounds that cannot be heard by a listener due to their hearing loss into a lower frequency so they can be heard.
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| Sound Learning |
1 |
Volume adjustments made in a number of different listening environments are learned by the hearing aid and automatically applied.
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| Feedback cancellation |
Yes |
Eliminates unwanted whistling from the hearing aid.
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| Ultra HD e2e |
Yes |
Volume adjustments and program changes made on one hearing aid are automatically transferred to the opposite hearing aid.
In addition, the hearing aids exchange information to more accurately locate and separate different sounds in the environment to provide better spatial (3D) awareness.
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| TwinPhone |
Yes |
Telephone conversation is automatically streamed into both hearing aids simultaneously to boost speech understanding.
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| CROS Compatible |
No |
The hearing aid can wirelessly receive and amplify sounds from the CROS Nx transmitter.
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| Tinnitus noiser |
Yes |
Helps the brain become distracted from tinnitus by instead listening to a selection of 5 masking noise sounds and 4 ocean wave therapy signals.
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| Tinnitus Notch Noise Therapy |
Yes |
In addition to Tinnitus noiser, helps the brain become distracted from tinnitus by matching the individual masking noise to that of your own tinnitus.
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| Acclimatization Manager |
Yes |
The hearing aid can gradually increase in volume automatically over a specified period of time to help listeners gradually adapt and acclimatise to wearing them.
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