An Introduction to Oticon Hearing Aids
Oticon are owned by the Danish company Demant A/S who also own the hearing aid manufacturer Bernafon. Demant also own the hearing aid retailer Hidden Hearing. If you've been to Hidden Hearing and been recommended Oticon or Bernafon hearing aids then it's perhaps a little more than coincidental.
The Oticon OPN range of hearing aids has received the best reviews by our audiologists compared to all other ranges from all manufacturers.
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Insider Information on Oticon Hearing Aids
Oticon is one of the world's most advanced producers of digital hearing aids. For over a century they have been creating high-quality hearing aid technologies for individuals with hearing loss. The tale of Oticon starts with the efforts of one man to help his own wife's hearing loss. Their motto of "People First" has guided the business ever since. Whether developing the latest in hearing technology or helping individuals better access hearing aids, Oticon puts the customer first, every time. ⠀ They launched their latest model in March 2019. Called the Opn S, this model builds on the original to give an even better experience. On the same model family, they also launched their first-ever lithium-ion-powered rechargeable listening device.
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Reviewing Oticon's Technologies
Special Features of Oticon Hearing Aids UK
Oticon digital hearing aids are some of the most well-respected in the industry. Here are some of the technologies that they are renowned for:
Oticon Hearing Aids Deep Neural Network (DNN) Technology
With the launch of Oticon More in January 2021, Oticon introduced its Deep Neural Network or DNN. This technology supports a better listening experience by giving your brain more meaningful and important sound data. Providing you with clear sound and speech - a deep neural network has the ability to always follow the conversation and understand sound.
Oticon Hearing Aids Velox Processing Platform
Velox offers significant improvements over its previous Inium Sense platform by combining a more powerful chipset with new sound processing software. Velox provides 50 times faster data processing to analyse and balance external sounds and make it easier to follow quickly changing conversations in public places. It scans, analyses and responds more than 100 times per second to its immediate environment, helping the OpenSound Navigator software to balance voice sources and eliminate noise between the words you want to hear.
Oticon BrainHearing Technology
This is one of Oticon’s standout features. It allows your 360-degree environment to be scanned by the hearing aid, offers more full assistance for how the brain processes noise and allows enhanced real-time processing to help your ear deliver healthier sound signals to the brain. It may seem like all hearing aids do this would do, but there are many hearing aids that can only pick up sound from one direction. This means they often receive the sound of what your head is pointed towards. BrainHearing enables omnidirectional listening, which is the same way the human ear receives sound. BrainHearing delivers audio with the clearest, purest possible signal— the best way your brain can comprehend it. Furthermore, because Oticon's BrainHearing technology retains the most important sounds in speech, your brain does not need to struggle to fill in the gaps in noisy environments.
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Oticon Hearing Aids Accessories
Oticon has a great portfolio of hearing aid accessories that can transmit sound from audio devices straight to your hearing aids. Ask your audiologist to show all the ones that are available and beneficial to you and your hearing loss.
Oticon Hearing Aids App
With the Oticon ON app, you can integrate Oticon hearing aids and the IFTTT (If This, Then That) platform. This enables consumers to incorporate their Oticon hearing aids with 'internet of things' technologies such as light controls, home alarms, smart thermostats, TV recordings, text messages, and more.
Here are some of the ‘recipes’ you can access with the use of the Oticon ON app and the IFTTT platform:
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Get a notification in your hearing aids when the doorbell rings.
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Play a spoken notification when your battery is low.
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Have your hearing aids switch to a preferred listening program based on your GPS location.
Oticon Hearing Aid Troubleshooting & Support
Oticon hearing aids adjustments are also possible via the app, like changing volume and programmes easily. However, we do know how important knowing your hearing aid device is so ensure that you write down any questions you may have before your audiologist appointment. This could be: Oticon hearing aids Bluetooth pairing, Oticon hearing aids batteries, Oticon hearing aids charger solutions and tips on cleaning Oticon hearing aids.
Oticon Hearing Aids Android Compatability
With the new Oticon More, you will have compatibility with the new Android accessibility protocol, Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) and direct streaming from Android devices 10 or later and Bluetooth 5.0. What about Oticon hearing aids and iPhone mobile phones? Oticon hearing aids are generally compatible with devices running iOS 11 or later. However, we always advise checking with your audiologist on whether your current phone is compatible with the Oticon hearing aids you wish to purchase.
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Notable Oticon Hearing Aid Models
Oticon Own Hearing Aids
Oticon Own is the world's first custom aid that includes onboard Deep Neural Network AI technology (DNN) and is powered by the Polaris platform (first seen in Oticon More). All the Own hearing aids provide exactly the same features as the Oticon More, but in an ITE model and they also don't connect with the CROS system.
Oticon Zircon Hearing Aids
Launched in January 2022, the Oticon Zircon hearing aids replaced the Ruby and Siya as their new essential hearing aid range. They are powered by the Polaris platform and also include some technical favourites seen in Oticon More. The BrainHearing technology and 360° speech are two great examples. Ultimately offering clear sound and focus from all directions, even those challenging listening situations for wearers.
Oticon More Hearing Aids
Launching in January 2021, Oticon More hearing aids are designed to give you access to more meaningful sounds around you - so you get more of life's details in more balance and clarity with their new Polaris platform and Deep Neural Network.
Oticon Ruby Hearing Aids
Oticon launched the Ruby hearing aid in 2020, to raise the standards of the essential hearing aid category in the industry. Combined with their Siya budget hearing aid range - there are now many styles to choose from at good value for money.
Oticon Xceed Hearing Aids
Launching in 2019 - Oticon Xceed provided better speech clarity, with reduced listening effort in challenging environments, when compared to other generations of power aids - for people with severe to profound hearing loss. Offering wearers 360-degree sound in the ever-changing world around them.
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360° access to speech and conversations.
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Say goodbye to annoying whistling sounds.
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Excellent clear sound with the detail you would normally miss.
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Easy wireless connectivity.
Oticon Opn S Hearing Aids
Oticon followed up their very popular Opn range with a substantial upgrade, the Opn S. This model builds on the success of the previous model with faster sound processing as it is powered by the new advanced Velox S platform. These improvements combine to align voice comprehension on par with ordinary hearing abilities.
One of the latest features is the OpenSound Optimizer technology. This provides you with the option to add up to six decibels of gain without the danger of feedback. This helps the Opn provide up to 30% more speech cues to the brain.
Whenever a patient feels they need an extra boost, they can turn on the OpenSound Booster. This helps them in particularly noisy environments to hear and communicate better.
The Opn S is Made For iPhone, offering direct connectivity to Apple devices for streaming content. Other smartphones can be connected with the ConnectClip accessory. The Opn S also offers a new sleek rechargeable option in the Opn miniRITE R, a lithium-ion powered hearing aid able to last an entire day on just one overnight charge.
Oticon Opn Hearing Aids
Oticon launched this Opn hearing aid family in 2016, and it has been one of their most celebrated offerings ever since. With the use of the IFTTT platform, it was considered the world’s first internet-connected hearing aid.
With the Opn, Oticon leveraged "BrainHearing" technology to enable less listening effort, a better comprehension of speech, and the ability to remember more of the speech heard.
Speech Rescue LX is available in each Oticon Opn hearing aid. The change in sound frequencies to levels where the person has less hearing loss, giving the user a better chance of hearing and understanding the sound signals they traditionally have trouble over.
Through Oticon's ConnectClip accessory, Oticon Opn hearing aids can stream music straight from iPhones or iPads, Android smartphones, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices.
Oticon Opn Play Hearing Aids
Opn Play hearing aids from Oticon form part of Oticon's dedication to pediatric hearing care. For hearing losses in kids ranging from mild to severe, four different styles are available. Styles include traditional behind-the-ear form factor (BTE); miniRITE (receiver-in-the-ear) or miniRITE T (with a telecoil); and miniRITE R, which contains a lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
Opn Play comes in a range of twelve colours along with colourful stickers that allow kids to customise their hearing aids as they see fit. This model of Oticon hearing aid also works well with the Amigo FM classroom microphone and children's transmitter in classrooms and the ConnectClip microphone, which facilitates children's communication with caregivers and teachers.
Oticon Siya Hearing Aids
Oticon Siya hearing aids provide a wide variety of designs and levels of technology. They are a more accessible price point for those who want to enjoy the benefits of the Velox processing platform.
The Behind-the-ear styles are the Siya miniRITE, the Siya BTE13 PP, and the Siya miniRITE-T. And there are several in-the-ear models ranging from the small and discreet all the way up to larger and more powerful styles.
Oticon Dynamo Super-Power Hearing Aids
The Dynamo super-power hearing aids bring to individuals with severe-to-profound hearing loss the advantages of BrainHearing technology. In addition to superpower amplification without feedback, Dynamo hearing aids include Oticon's 'Speech Rescue' function that makes high-frequency sounds easier to understand by moving them to the mid-frequencies of the wearer. The high-frequency sounds also stay intact in their usual location on the frequency spectrum, which helps to maintain a natural wide frequency response for a great sound experience.
Oticon Alta2 Hearing Aids
Alta's ultimate objective and function is to provide its customers with natural sound. You have more customization choices than ever with the Oticon Alta2. No matter what your hearing impairment level is, the Alta2 will fit comfortably and snugly on or inside your ear.
This is a hearing aid for hearing loss at all stages. The Plus Power model is for those with severe hearing loss. Since Alta's last iteration, its capacity to pick up secondary sounds like whispers has increased by 20 percent.
The Alta2 connects wirelessly to cell phones, tablets, TVs and other Bluetooth audio devices with the Oticon ConnectLine accessory.