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Phonak unveils Lumity hearing aid platform
...umity, the new hearing aid platform for fully immersive conversations in virtually any situation With Phonak SmartSpeech™ Technology, Lumity improves speech understanding in background noise Stäfa, Switzerland, August 23, 2022 – Phonak, a leading global provider of life-changing hearing solutions, today announces that...
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What difference in speech understanding to expect with new Oticon More 1 HAs?
...ore HAs can offer some idea what I should reasonably expect (or hope for) in understanding speech with my pair of new More 1s: How much difference in speech understanding to expect when wearing the new aids compared to not wearing any HAs? – This, I know, depends on an individual’s hearing loss, so I’ll include some de...
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Understanding speech in a crowded restaurant?
Hi, new to the forum and was hoping someone could suggest an appropriate aid for me. I’ve got Meniere’s disease in my left ear with tinnitus and moderately severe loss. My right ear is fine. My biggest problem is understanding speech that’s off to my left in noisy situations. Is there an aid that...
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Would Oticon OPN S1 be good for my severe-to-profound hearing loss, with poor speech understanding?
...ck my audiogram here: Profile - jughead_jones - Hearing Aid Forum - Active Hearing Loss Community In particular, I am Filipino and have the following speech understanding using local accent: Left: 60% @ 95 dB hL Right: 84% @ 95 dB hL With foreign accens (like Indian English or Singaporean English), my speech understand...
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Phonak Marvel / Paradise + Roger Select to understand speech better in noisy environment
Hello everyone! I am new to this forum. Would like to know more about remote mic (Roger Select) usage and will it really help in my current situation. I am working in an open office environment and we do not have separate cabins or any partitions in between. Basically we are almost 80+ employees ...
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Speech understanding with hearing aid and with tinnitus
Hi All, I am delighted to be here, just got moderator permissions by activation of my account, thanks to them as i have hope to get my problem sort out here by people on this forum and obviously with their precious time for my life which is my ears, ear have greater impact on my life than anythin...
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Understanding speech expectations with aids
Im going on my 1st week with the KS6, I am hoping for at least 25 30% improvement. It really just seems like about 13% and im not sure if that 13% is because the volume is turned up. Has anyone noticed an improvement over time for the brain to understand?? Do I need to do some kind of trying or p...
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Older adults may have trouble understanding speech because of age-related changes
Age-Related Problems in Recognizing Words Forecast by Brain Differences Older adults may have trouble understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research in the May 13 issue of < i > The Journal of Neuroscience < /i > . The study shows that older adults ...
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New Widex hearing aids not helping speech understanding
I was just fitted with Widex hearing aids for mild hearing loss in upper frequencies. I have trouble understanding speech, and I thought they would help. I am so, so disappointed. The only thing they have done is amplify annoying background noises. My ability to understand speech has not increase...
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Speech Understanding in CI Users Strong, but Music Perception Lags Behind
...joy music again, and they rank music as the second most important acoustic stimulus in their lives after language. (J Am Acad Audiol 2000;11[7]:390.) Speech understanding is now routinely achieved for good implant candidates, and improving music perception has become an area of great interest for scientists, clinicians...
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I still cannot understand speech properly
Hi all. I have recently changed from domes to custom moulds but, I am still noticing that I am not able to understand speech clearly, despite the audiologist saying that speech clarity should be improved as I did tell him that I want to be able to hear speech properly and block background noise w...
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Speech Understanding vs. Comfort
For those with severe/profound loss with the usual Recruitment problems, there is a trade-off between clarity with good speech comprehension and comfort (comfort= no blasting loud sounds). The industry standard, Wide Dynamic Range Compression does modify the speech envelope which does change the ...
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Help understanding speech in noise rehab app
I just tried a new CI rehab app called CSent Noise (Cacatenated Sentences in Noise). I don’t understand what results I should look for - what would an achievable goal for for hearing in noise with my CI? Here is a https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cancatenated-sentence-in-noise/id863792902 link to th...
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Understanding Speech in various Languages
I was wondering if understanding speech is more or less difficult if a person was using a different language. For example, Chinese which is a tonal language where the same word but with a higher or lower pitch changes the word completely. I would thing it would be even worst for me vs the vowles ...
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Is your speech understanding good in quiet?
Hello I have a question for hearing aid users. Do you think your hearing aids bring you perfect or near perfect speech understanding in quiet? Please provide me with your audiogram and your thoughts on the characteristics of the speech sound from the hearing aid which you think may...
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What to do about speech understanding in certain situations?
Hi I have a quick question i had a hearing test done when i went for my impressions for my moulds but it showed no change in my hearing but yet i feel like since January my understanding of certain words and sentences in certain environments has gotten worse and it makes me feel like i need more ...
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Is there a clear winner in the "speech understanding" category?
...they will come out? (I assume they will.) But I would also like to hear if some people think that there is something better than Phonak Paradise for speech understanding. Bluetooth, connectivity, phone answering and other gadgetry not important at all. Just the best clarity of speech.
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Suggestions on Understanding speech in the movie theater
It has been years since I’ve been to the movies. I haven’t gone since I started wearing aids five years ago. Any suggestions on how to better understand what the actors are saying?
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Best hearing aid that helps understanding speech clearly for sever hearing loss?
What is the best hearing aid that helps understanding speech clearly for sever hearing loss? :confused: :confused:
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Cannot understand speech with Beltone Boost Plus
Wear Beltone Boost Plus and hate them. I have Profound loss. Boost’s have plenty of volume but I can not UNDERSTAND SPEECH. Price is no object
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Objective self-administered test of speech understanding?
I’m a hybrid of audiologist-assisted and DIY wearer of late-model Phonak HAs and user of Phonak Target software. My main hearing issue is speech understanding. It would be very helpful if I had a way to quickly evaluate a change to my HAs (including coupling) and their fitting. I’m thinking of something lik...
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Trouble understanding speech with Phonak Nathos Auto UP
Hi , I was fitted with two of these on Friday . They replace my danalogics which I’ve had for a while . I’m struggling to hear with these ( excuse the pun ) so much background noise but unable to understand speech ? Also certain sounds have disappeared ? Can’t hear a door close whereas I could wi...
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What can I do to understand speech better?
I (24 years old) had my hearing tested after a lifetime of struggling to understand people, especially anyone with a deeper voice. Phone calls are tough and i’m constantly guessing what they said. one on one conversations aren’t too bad, i catch about 70-80% (much less with men, but I make do and...
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Effect of frequency compression on speech understanding
I have been using my KS8S for several months now, and am very happy with them. In another post I mentioned that the music program worked better for my understanding of speech than the Automatic program. One response was that this could be due to the fact that the Automatic program is often set up...
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understand speech in noisy environments
Hello everyone, I have been wearing hearing aids for 12 years. currently Lumity L90 R. I have moderate hearing loss and I adjust it myself. I get along quite well in quiet surroundings, but like most people, I have major problems in loud surroundings. I don’t have much audiological knowledge, but...