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Page 12 Digital Hearing Aid Technology is improving fast.
Female Focus What Makes Modern Hearing Aids Better?
In 2006, the average 40-inch flat screen TV would have cost you in excess of €1,500. Now, 10 years later, you can buy a 40-inch flat screen TV for about €400. The same has happened with hearing aids, although it’s more likely to escape our awareness. We notice that TVs become larger, better, and more affordable, but we’re blind to the advancements in hearing aids because we’re not inundated with advertising and massive store displays. Nevertheless, hearing aids, together with all other consumer electronics, have improved drastically over the last 10 years. If analogue hearing aids are like the bulky 15-inch-tube-TVs of the past, modern digital hearing aids are like the light 65-inch-Ultra-High-Definition TVs of the present! Here’s what makes modern hearing aids significantly better, starting with the technology that makes it all achievable.... Digital Technology. Hearing aids, like all electronics, have reaped the benefits of the digital revolution. Hearing aids have become, in a sense, miniaturised computers, with all of the programming versatility you’d expect from a modern computer.
The result is a product that is compact, light-weight, energy-efficient, and capable of manipulating information - information being, in the case of a hearing aid, sound. Digital hearing aids can take incoming sound and can label specific frequencies to be delivered to the amplifier. Speech sounds, for example, can be labelled as important and delivered to the speaker for amplification. Likewise, background noise can be labelled as ‘undeliverable’ and thus can be suppressed. So this digital adjustment of sound information is the key element to everything a modern hearing aid can accomplish.
Here are a few of the state-of-the-art features associated with
modern hearing aids that digital technology makes possible: Speech recognition – digital hearing aids can recognise and enhance speech with digital processing and directional microphones. Background noise suppression – background noise is a lower frequency sound, which the hearing aid can recognise and inhibit. Clearer phone calls – the technology amplifies the signal from your phone, resulting in clear sound without interference. Wireless streaming – hearing aids with Bluetooth technology can connect to devices wirelessly, so you can stream music, phone calls, and TV programs directly to your hearing aids. Wireless control – compatible hearing aids can be controlled with smartphones and digital watches, so you can effortlessly and subtly adjust volume and settings.
So as you can see, digital hearing aids are powerful pieces of modern day technology. That’s why almost all cases of hearing loss can now be efficiently treated, and why the majority of people are very pleased with the performance of their hearing aids. Richard Sykes of Premier Hearing Services is our resident hearing aid expert in the Costa Blanca. Richard works out of clinics in Denia, Javea, Alfaz del Pi, El Albir, Benijofar and Bolnuevo, and offers an entirely FREE HEARING TEST and can offer a large range of aids from 995€. Call Richard on 659 644 106 for professional and personal advice.
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