Reduced Listening Effort

Jun 6 2023

A study by Phonak showed participants had significantly faster processing speed when they had been wearing hearing aids compared to the unaided condition.

Have you noticed that it often takes an older person or a person with hearing loss longer to process a conversation? This is due to the effort required to piece together a conversation from the snippets received.

"The impacts of hearing loss extend beyond reduced speech understanding and include the need for people with hearing loss to invest additional attention and effort to piece together what is being said, which, overtime, can also lead to fatigue."

source: Phonak Field News

Phonak Speech Enhancer

Speech Enhancer is an adaptive algorithm designed to enhance the peaks or soft speech signals and quiet.

• provides 23% better speech intelligibility for speech from a distance*
• provides 18% better speech intelligibility for speech from an adjacent room**
• reduces listening effort by up to 20% for soft speech from a distance***

*speech in a quiet environment from 4 metres
**speech in a quiet environment without visual cues at 4 metres
***speech in a quiet environment at 2,4 and 8 metres

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