At Regain Hearing, following an advanced hearing test with a qualified and experienced audiologist, you can choose your hearing aids from the industry’s most respected and trusted manufacturers.
It’s hard to believe the world’s first electronic hearing aid was invented in 1898. Since Miller Reese Hutchison created that first life-changing portable device, the technology that changed the lives of people with hearing loss has improved radically.
Furthermore, in the 21st century alone, a host of recent widespread technological and connectivity advancements, from Bluetooth to artificial intelligence, have been integrated into hearing aids to enhance functionality and performance. This means that in recent years, hearing aid technology has encountered a real leap in terms of comfort, convenience, ease of use, and new levels of effectiveness. These incredible features mean that the new generation of hearing aids can be tailored to meet each individual user’s unique needs and requirements.
As leading private hearing specialist clinics, we take our time to source high-quality hearing aids from a carefully selected range of specialist international suppliers. We know how important it is to ensure we always have a wide choice of hearing aid styles for meeting specific needs and all possible hearing health conditions. And just as importantly, we perform an advanced hearing test to diagnose hearing loss precisely and give us the information to help you select the best hearing aid for your degree of hearing loss.
Yet, with such swiftly evolving developments and improvements, it can be hard to know which technological advancements to select after being diagnosed with hearing loss after a private hearing test. We understand that people have differing budgets and supply hearing aids across various price points. Hence, the best quality hearing aid is always available at an affordable price point.
That is why, although additional features can make life more convenient if you use hearing aids, we believe the most significant functions of the latest high-performance hearing aids include the following:
Modern hearing aids can identify and adjust to many different acoustic backgrounds, whether you’re in the library or on a bustling high street. Precise noise classification has become an essential component, and it’s a function that’s becoming ever more sophisticated. Many of today’s hearing aids now collect their own data to continually anticipate and adjust to their environments for optimum performance.
With the dawn of the digital age came digital signal processing (DSP). This type of hearing aid converts sound from the microphone into digitised code, improving accuracy by increasing the sample rate. Digital code is separated into bits to create clearer separation, noise reduction, compression, and directionality before being transmitted back to the user from a receiver. This hearing aid technology is ideal for those struggling with noise reduction and directionality.
Hearing aids are now often equipped with Bluetooth technology, allowing users to connect them directly to various devices such as smartphones, TVs, and computers. This connectivity enables users to stream audio directly to their hearing aids’ control settings via mobile apps and even use their hearing aids as wireless headphones.
Today, AI is making its way into innovation for hearing aids, working to enhance a range of functions, often in real-time. These include speech recognition in loud environments, identifying and amplifying the user’s own voice, using machine learning to discover and prioritise key sounds and monitoring and tracking the health of the user’s hearing.
Many people suffering from hearing loss also experience tinnitus (a range of persistent “phantom” noises), and many of today’s hearing aids are specially configured to help mitigate this debilitating condition. Solutions include creating therapeutic sounds that mask tinnitus and auditory stimulation that provides temporary relief.
Choosing the right hearing aid is an important decision. It should be strongly supported by an expert private audiologist working with data collected from an advanced hearing test.
The majority of modern hearing aids come in three main variations:
It’s important to remember that a private hearing specialist will always recommend the hearing aids they know will best resolve your hearing loss or tinnitus symptoms. However, there are some more fundamental tech requirements that you should ideally find as standard features in a good-quality, reliable modern hearing aid.
These include:
In almost every instance, booking an advanced hearing test with an expert private audiologist will be the best way to understand which hearing enhancement solutions work best for you.
Unsure which hearing aid style you need? Book a hearing test with one of our experienced, caring audiologists today.