DIGITAL HEARING AIDS

Digital Sound Processing

• Automatic sound processing
  • Incoming sound is continually analyzed and processed to best amplify speech while reducing unwanted noise
  • Soft sounds are given more amplification, while very loud sounds are given little or no amplification
  • Often creates hands-free operation with no need for external controls such as volume control wheels
  • Makes hearing instruments simple to use and comfortable for the wearer
• Directional microphone systems
  • Proven to improve speech understanding in noisy environments
  • Helps you focus on sound coming from in front of you, by reducing sound coming from the side and behind you
  • The latest directional microphone systems automatically adapt and reduce multiple noise sources around you
  • New directional technology includes systems that use three microphones
• Speech & Noise management technology
  • Helps minimize or reduce background noise in many situations
  • Allows for special listening programs to be set that offer personalized sound processing for specific listening needs such as listening to music
• Feedback Cancellation
  • Continually analyzes incoming signals and adjusts seamlessly and instantaneously to minimize feedback (whistling)
  • Maintains excellent sound quality
  • Advanced systems avoid unnecessary cancellation of high-pitched external signals like music or the beeps from a microwave oven
• Multiple Listening programs
  • Adjusts the way sound is processed to adapt to specific listening situations including listening on the telephone or to music
• Wireless technology
  • Highly advanced instruments use wireless technology to literally communicate with each other when wearing two hearing instruments (binaural amplification)
  • Sound processing is synchronized for optimized sound quality
  • Wearers can use one control to operate both instruments
• Intelligent features and accessories
  • Remote control
    • Allows volume and listening mode changes to be done discreetly, without having to touch the hearing instrument
    • Enables volume change and multiple listening programs on instruments too small for push buttons or volume control wheels such as with Completely-in-the-Canal models
    • Advanced remote controls can display hearing instrument settings including battery status, listening mode and volume
  • Telecoil
    • Special feature that amplifies only telephone signals and not other sounds
    • Operated automatically when telephone is placed near hearing instrument or manually by a push button or switch
  • Audio input
    • Allows attachment, either with or without a wire, to FM systems (assistive listening devices used by children with hearing loss in schools), televisions, tape recorders and other devices.