Hearing instrument users face a variety of daily acoustic challenges; poor speech intelligibility in noisy environments, inferior sound quality and uncomfortable listening situations. SoundDesign™ Advanced Research was developed by Gennum with the key considerations of people who are hard of hearing in mind. SoundDesign Advanced Research couples state-of-the-art acoustic algorithms to ensure high-fidelity digital sound quality.

Adaptive Noise Reduction 3.0
Noisy environments pose problems for people who are hard of hearing because noise levels are often louder than speech (i.e. poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)). Gennum has implemented an innovative solution for hearing in noise that incorporates two unique attributes:

• Noise levels in 128 individual bands are independently monitored
• Advanced psychoacoustic models are applied to eliminate audible noise and reduce the amount of distortion introduced by the noise reduction process