Let’s keep things natural

Full access to the sounds of life is the key to helping people with hearing loss.

When listening in a complex environment with many different sound sources, our cognitive system automatically tries to separate them. Once they are separated, we apply our attention to the specific sound we’re most interested in, while setting competing sounds aside. We cannot selectively attend to the specific sound source until we organise the sounds in our environm

Preserving signal fidelity is essential

Speech is composed of intricate, precisely timed acoustic events and over-manipulation of natural acoustic events runs the risk of compromising these richly embedded waveforms. Our users need full access to the details of the spoken word. Preserving signal fidelity is essential. Preserving signal fidelity gives the brain access to the information it needs to organise the world of sound, select the sound that is most intriguing and follow it over time.

How a speech signal is amplified makes the difference

Making sounds loud enough while applying processing to provide the entire acoustic signal must be accomplished with the utmost of care. Overly aggressive, overly manipulative signal processing can easily corrupt the natural intricacies of the speech signal. The details make all the difference. Let’s keep things natural!

Casual conversation isn’t meant to be exhausting

People with hearing loss must concentrate harder to keep up. The amount of energy spent depends on the fidelity of the signal being received, the exact type and degree of hearing loss, and the user’s unique abilities. Nonetheless, the more distorted or degraded the signal is, the more energy will be required to organise sounds and resolve ambiguities in an already difficult listening situation.

Oticon Agil gives users the energy to do more

Automatically decoding the speech signal to instantly recognise what is being said allows listeners freedom to channel their energy into performing deeper level processing. For example, automatic decoding facilitates better understanding of the meaning of a conversation, allows the user to better interpret and respond to speech, and leaves more energy and processing available to access working and long-term memory.

To this end, Oticon has developed a unique approach that involves preserving signal fidelity for maximum speech understanding and minimum listening effort.