StereoZoom - Improved speech understanding even with open fittings
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In the premium products from the Spice generation, StereoZoom offers hearing instrument users a manual program which enables an additional improvement in speech understanding, particularly in difficult listening situations where there is diffuse, uncorrelated background noise and the hearing direction strongly focused toward the front. StereoZoom uses binaural processing technologies to create a bidirectional network of four microphones. This network can produce a directional effect that has a strong focus towards the front. This study involving 19 participants showed a significant improvement in speech understanding against background noise when StereoZoom is compared with UltraZoom and with a situation without a hearing instrument. The measurements were carried out for open (n=8) and closed (n=1) fittings.
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