Adjusting to Your Hearing Aid

The type of sound environment that most of 
us live in today is very complex and varied.  
It can be as quiet as a lecture, or it can be as 
noisy and confusing as a dinner or luncheon concert environment.  More modern technology hearing aids have the capability of self-adjusting the volume to compensate for some of the louder sounds that occur.  Some of the




 

 multi-band hearing aids can also adjust different frequency ranges to compensate for any tolerance problems and try to help overall speech clarity.  Modern hearing aids can also have multiple memories for storing different prescriptions for different environments.  Some have voice activity detection, which listens for speech like sounds and reduces the volume when no speech is detected, and directional microphones which selectively focus on only those sounds coming from directly in front of you or all directions.  Computer technology has dramatically improved the performance of hearing aids. 

 
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