Specialists in hearing aids OticonOticon More, the award-winning hearing technology, is being integrated into its new hearing aids. This will give children a more natural listening experience.
The Oticon PX family Oticons new paediatric hearing instruments are the first hearing aids for children that have an onboard Deep Neural Network. This intelligent DNN was trained with 12,000,000 sound scenes from real life and has learned to recognize sounds through experience just like a child’s brain.
Children with hearing loss can enjoy the full sound scene and a more natural listening experience with the DNN technology.
According to a hearing specialist, a variety of meaningful sounds is essential for the development and maintenance of an auditory system in children. Oticon Play PX hearing instruments have been designed to do this.
Oticon Play PX allows children to listen to all sounds in the environment and controls noise. It helps children’s brains learn to handle sound and hear naturally.
Oticon has optimized the technology of Oticon more, adapting the groundbreaking hearing technology that adults can access, specifically for children. Oticons software Genie 2 features pre-set fitting options to suit children according their age. This also takes into account the child’s growth, so Oticon Play PX can support every stage in a childs hearing development.
Thomas Behrens is the Chief of Audiology at Oticon. He said: We know that children with hearing impairments need to be able to hear all the sounds in rich sound scenes. Our latest paediatric hearing aids were designed to provide that access.
As children grow up quickly, the experiences they have play a crucial role in stimulating their brains and supporting cognitive function. Children with hearing loss are unable to fully access the world around them and communicate. This is why we offer the new MoreSound technology, which allows children to hear sound more clearly.
Oticon’s best technology is used to support children in learning and reaching developmental goals at a faster pace than their peers.
Oticon has released a new study Oticon Play X: Supporting communication, learning and inclusion for children and teensThis demonstrates that Oticon Play PX can produce sound in all directions for speech recognition and recall, which is better than hearing aids with traditional or OMNI directional technology. According to the paper, speech recognition and recall can be as good as the normal hearing range in certain conditions.
Oticon Play PX supports language, learning, and social development by giving children access to the full sound environment in an easier way.
Polaris, a powerful platform with the new MoreSound Intelligence (MoreSound Amplifier, and MoreSound Optimizer) is powering the paediatric hearing aids. These technologies combine to provide children with a natural sound representation, a complete sound scene, fine contrast and balance, and stable amplification. Oticon states that this is more comfortable and less likely cause feedback for children when they are playing, hugging or interacting.
EduMic, an educational remote microphone system, supports Oticon Play PX. Wireless streaming is also possible with the hearing aids for children from both Androids and iPhones.
The hearing aids can be purchased in a variety colours and are robust and comfortable. The new paediatric hearing aid range includes two BTE styles, two miniRITE styles, and two rechargeable styles.
