ReSound’s Innovative Remote Microphone Technology Will Be Available With ReSound Alera Family Hearing Aids

When ReSound introduced its be by ReSound hearing aid several years ago, it was the first significant innovation in form factors I had seen in a while. By separating the microphone from the unit containing the digital signal processor (DSP) and receiver (speaker), be by ReSound opened up new possibilities for fitting in-the-ear (ITE) and completely in the canal (CIC) custom hearing aids. But be by Resound is an open-fit hearing aid for a limited range of fittings, mainly patients with mild hearing loss at higher frequencies.

Now with its announcement of its Remote Microphone (RM) Technology, ReSound is extending the concept to its popular ReSound Alera hearing aids and other custom hearing instruments. The result is a new class of hearing aids that will provide significant benefits — including more natural acoustic performance, more amplification in a smaller form factor, reduced feedback, and less wind-noise interference — for a broad range of users with mild, moderate and even severe hearing loss. Read more

GN ReSound Alera Arrives With Wireless Features Setting The Bar Higher For Premium Hearing Aids

The wireless features in the new GN ReSound Alera family of hearing aids, which start shipping this week, are very similar to those found in several other high-end hearing aids already announced by other manufacturers. But, taken together, they help set the bar higher for premium hearing aids and assistive listening devices in general. The only question is how much better the new wireless features will make the new hearing aids from GN ReSound and other manufacturers when users start trying them out in the field.

One of the first things you learn in Marketing 101 is that  ”first,” “best” and “only” are some of the strongest words in the English language. So it’s no surprise that in the increasingly competitive hearing-aid industry, manufacturers are starting to use those words more often. GN ReSound’s news release announcing first shipments of the Alera hearing aids is a good example, claiming the company has come up with “the first truly wireless hearing aid with no strings attached.” The news release goes on to announce “a new approach to the way a hearing aid receives sound from devices such as TVs, stereos, cell phones and computers,” claiming that, “for the first time the patient can receive sound directly from the device without cables, wires or the need to wear uncomfortable accessories.” Read more

ReSound Alera Hearing Aids Provide Wireless Connectivity To TV And Mobile Phones

GN ReSound’s new flagship family of Alera hearing aids will provide wireless connectivity directly with mobile phones and television sets equipped with ReSound’s new Unite assistive listening device (ALD) accessories.

Like other new wireless ALD accessories from Widex and other hearing-aid manufacturers, the ReSound Unite accessories eliminate the need for transmission through the hearing aid’s telecoil from a neckloop attached to the transmitter. And because the new ReSound Alera hearing aids communicate with the Unite accessories at 2.4 gigahertz, they eliminate the interference and delays sometimes experienced with slower wireless transmission speeds used by other manufacturers. Read more