With its new Verso hearing aid family, ReSound has joined other leading global hearing aid brands in delivering binaural sound processing for more natural hearing.
Also integrating ReSound’s advanced 2.4 gigahertz wireless digital audio streaming technology, which transmits audio from your TV, stereo system, or external microphones through the air directly into your hearing aids, the Verso family is a contender for leadership in bells-and-whistles features at the high end of the hearing aid market.
The ReSound Verso’s “binaural fusion” technology features wireless ear-to-ear (“e2e”) communication between the hearing aids. The technology “leverages both hearing instruments to work as one synchronized system, delivering outstanding speech understanding in noise and providing the most natural sound experience of any other ReSound instrument.”
Other high-end hearing-aid manufacturers including Oticon, Phonak and Siemens have integrated e2e collaboration in their sound-processing platforms to provide better ability to locate the sources of sound, better three-dimensional balancing of sound in complex listening environments including more selective noise-reduction, and more effective use of directional microphones. While the relative value of these features is only starting to be understood as users in the field report their experience, offering e2e processing is a distinguishing feature of the world’s best (and most expensive) hearing aid platforms.
The Verso family also includes ReSound’s 2.4 GHz wireless audio streaming features, providing easy listening in challenging environments through sound amplified at the source and transmitted directly into the hearing aids.
The Verso hearing aids also deliver some new user-friendly features. For instance, When changing programs or volume in one hearing instrument, the same changes are automatically made to the second instrument. And Verso’s Comfort Phone™ feature detects when the phone has been placed next to one hearing instrument and reduces the gain in the other instrument, allowing patients to focus more easily on—and listen more comfortably to—their phone conversations.
Let’s look for other top-shelf hearing-aid manufacturers to come out with new platforms and hot technology features in the run-up to the EUHA Congress in Frankfurt Oct. 24-26, the largest hearing-industry trade show where the biggest manufacturers often like to launch their new product lines.