What's New with hearing instruments?

Exciting Features:

Automatic changes to sound settings to accommodate for various sound environments

Tracking of hours of use, types of hearing environments (quiet, noise, speech in noise, music, outdoors, etc) and volume control changes whist the hearing aids are working

Rechargeable devices which last 19-30 hours and cases which have dehumidifying and portable chargers, or wireless Qi (pronounced Chi) charging

Motion sensors

Fractal tones in tinnitus masker sounds

3rd microphone in the ear to allow for natural ear sound collection to be better at locating where sounds come from and better reduce wind noise

Gentle adaptive acclimatisation of decibels automatically over time

Auto Real Ear Measure adjustments

Pitch transfer to rescue otherwise unheard sounds

Maximum noise reduction to optimise signal to noise ratios with AI technologies (up to 30dB)

Upgrade-able hearing aid software without buying a new set, just pay the difference

Whistle, wind and echo/reverberation reduction

Amplification up to 10kHz 

Hear calls through both ears

Custom In-The-Ear devices which are rechargeable (no more fiddling with batteries)

Music in Higher Definition

More exciting features:

Hear your mobile phone's calls or music in your ears with bluetooth streaming for Apple and Android phones. Also, gain control over how much ambient sound is allowed in and how much streaming sound is allowed through

Telehealth with convenient synchronous or asynchonous adjustment request options via smart phones

Language translations in real time

Find my hearing aids and find my phone functions

 Fall detection

App to help make suggestions on how to adjust the hearing aids to hear better

Fitness and conversation tracking

 Call to text apps so what is said can be read for greater confidence during calls 

Choose the direction of focus for microphones to front, left, right, backwards or all around via an app 

Hear the TV directly into your ears

Hear whoever you like by giving them a remote microphone to clip onto their shirt and then it sounds like they speak directly into your ears and this overcomes distance (within 15m and line of sight) and noise issues in challenging listening environments

Hear with up to 8 microphones to focus on the active speakers wherever they may bein 360 degrees whilst you sit with them at a table during a meeting or whilst dining

Remote control adjustments of volume or programs without touching the hearing aids