Hearing Aid accessories

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All hearing aid manufacturers now have a free mobile phone app available to work with their Bluetooth hearing aids.

These apps aren’t necessary to use the hearing aid but can add additional functionality or just make it easier to adjust the hearing aids.

Once the app and mobile phone has been paired to your hearing aids it can offer basic functions such as volume control and program change. This can make it easier to control compared to trying to find a button on the hearing aid. It can also be less noticeable when you are in company.

Most hearing aid apps have advanced features so that you are able to adjust the sound and even in some cases add custom programs, adjust the frequency response or even a find my hearing aid feature.

Some companies have enabled a remote fine tuning feature. This means your mi Ears Audiologist can arrange a video call with you and fine tune your hearing aids remotely.

Use cases

• When volume or program adjustments are needed in particular sound environments.
• Ability to fine tune the sound of your hearing aids. Good for advanced users who have active lifestyles who may want their hearing aids to work a certain way in a particular environment.
• Can use the app to keep in contact with your Audiologist.

Remote Microphones are Bluetooth hearing aid accessories with two or more microphones that send speech signals to your hearing aids.

These can be small microphones the person you are speaking to wears on their chest or table top devices that sit in the middle of a group conversation.

These are paired with your hearing aids and once set up are incredibly easy to use.

Use cases

• Improves speech clarity in noisy situations such as restaurants, cars etc.
• Improves speech understanding for distant speech such as lectures or meetings.
• Desktop microphones can improve and target a speaker from multiple directions such as in a meeting or dinner table.
• Remote microphones are useful for all degrees of hearing loss but especially for more severe types when even the best hearing aids on their own can have limitations.