Research Hub
2023 | Oticon Real
Belonging, Being and Becoming: Supporting the Communication Experiences of Teens with Hearing Loss
2022 | Oticon Play PX
Clinical Studies with Oticon Play PX: Exploring New Domains in Paediatric Amplification
Oticon Play PX: Supporting Communication, Learning and Inclusion for Children and Teens
More paediatric research
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2024
Oticon Intent™ Clinical evidence
Expanding personalised fitting opportunities with Oticon Intent™
2021
Paediatric BrainHearing™
2019
Children’s learning environments and listening needs: Implications for amplification
2014
Paediatric Target Match
Reducing sustained listening effort and listening stress with Oticon Intent™
2023
Wind & Handling Stabilizer – Evidence and user benefits
SuddenSound Stabilizer – Evidence and user benefits
Improving comfort and speech clarity in wind
Fitting gently and counselling with data - personalising your clients' hearing aids to meet their needs
4D Sensor technology and Deep Neural Network 2.0 in Oticon Intent™
2022
Taking BrainHearing™ benefits to the next level: An overview of latest evidence on the Polaris™ platform
Oticon MyMusic™ – Clinical Evidence
Introduction to OpenSound Optimizer™
Improved speech understanding with less effort in children: An OpenSound Navigator™ study
ConnectClip: A Guide to Better Communication
2015
Oticon Frequency Lowering: Access to high-frequency speech sounds with Speech Rescue™ technology
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2019 | Oticon Xceed and Xceed Play
The Audiology of Oticon Xceed and Oticon Xceed Play
2019 | Oticon Edumic
Enhanced learning with EduMic
2017
Benefits of OpenSound Navigator™ in children
OBJECTIVE
The study explored how Oticon Real hearing aids enhance communication and reduce listening fatigue for teens with hearing loss in challenging environments.
2023 | Oticon Real™
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METHOD
Researchers used questionnaires and interviews with ten teens before and after using Oticon Real hearing aids.
RESULTS
Oticon Real significantly improved noise management, reduced listening fatigue, and boosted teens’ confidence and participation in daily activities.
REAL WORLD IMPACT
Oticon Real helps teens with hearing loss feel more confident and active by making it easier to hear in real world situations, such as educational, social and outdoor activities where wind noise and sudden sounds are part of their daily life.
Fitting with Real
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Partnership in Hearing
To evaluate how Oticon Play PX supports auditory adaptation, fitting accuracy, and emotion recognition in children and teens with hearing loss.
2022 | Oticon Play PX™
Exploratory studies with infants to teens using case studies, coupler verification methods, and emotion recognition tasks.
Oticon Play PX provides successful auditory acclimatization, achieves superior accuracy in fitting to prescribed targets, and supports voice emotion recognition in noisy environments, aligning children with hearing loss closer to the abilities of their normal-hearing peers.
This research offers positive insights to auditory acclimatization when switching hearing aid technology to Oticon Play PX and supports communication, social and technology benefits in fitting Oticon Play PX technology for children and teens.
Coupler verification
Emotion recognition tasks
Case studies
To demonstrate how Oticon Play PX supports communication, learning, and inclusion for children and teens with hearing loss through Oticon’s paediatric BrainHearing™ philosophy and innovative sound processing strategies, including the Deep Neural Network.
Research included studies on parent perspectives, remote care opportunities, and trials assessing speech recognition and recall with Oticon Play PX in challenging environments.
Oticon Play PX improved communication access, reduced barriers in noisy environments, and promoted inclusion, confidence, and social participation for children and teens.
Children and teens with hearing loss require full access to sound and communication to grow, thrive, and learn. Oticon’s paediatric BrainHearing philosophy and innovative sound processing strategies in the Oticon Play PX hearing technology provide a strong communication network to support the hearing needs of children and teens with hearing loss.
Oticon RemoteCare
Speech recognition & recall
Parent perspectives
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People with severe-to-profound hearing loss face unique challenges that go beyond basic amplification. The Oticon Xceed and Oticon Xceed Play hearing aids were designed to provide clearer speech and reduce background noise, helping users communicate more effectively.
2019 | Oticon Xceed and Xceed play™
Researchers evaluated Oticon Xceed’s technical performance, including how well it improves speech clarity, reduces noise, and prevents feedback (whistling sounds from hearing aids). The device was tested in real-world noisy environments to measure its impact.
Improved speech clarity: Users experienced up to an 11 dB improvement in speech-to-noise ratio, meaning voices became much clearer even in noisy settings. Less effort to hear: Studies found that people using Oticon Xceed needed less mental effort to understand speech, reducing fatigue. Better sound balance: The technology preserves speech details, making it easier for users to understand conversations without distortion.
Oticon Xceed gives people with severe hearing loss a significant boost in their ability to communicate, particularly in challenging environments like restaurants/cafeterias, workplaces, and classrooms. By reducing background noise and making speech clearer, it enhances both social interactions and overall quality of life.
Children with hearing loss often struggle to hear their teachers in noisy classrooms, which affects their learning. Remote microphone systems (RMS) help by transmitting the teacher's voice directly to the student’s hearing aid. The study explores how EduMic, a new RMS, improves speech understanding and usability in educational settings.
For teachers: EduMic was rated easier to use, more comfortable to wear, and preferred over other systems. For students: EduMic improved speech understanding in noisy classrooms, sometimes even outperforming traditional RMS. For usability: Teachers found it intuitive, leading to more consistent use in classrooms, which ensures students benefit from better hearing.
EduMic makes it easier for children with hearing loss to follow lessons, reducing the learning gap caused by poor classroom acoustics. Teachers are more likely to use it consistently, ensuring students receive clear speech input throughout the school day. This technology helps kids stay engaged and reduces the mental fatigue of straining to listen.
Researchers tested EduMic with teachers and students to measure its ease of use and impact on speech clarity in different classroom environments. They compared it to traditional RMS to see how well it performed in noisy and reverberant spaces.
Teachers
Students
Usability
Oticon’s OpenSound Navigator (OSN) helps by improving speech understanding in noisy environments for children with hearing aids. This study aims to evaluate its effectiveness and to determine whether OSN supports access to surrounding speech necessary for incidental learning.
Researchers tested children who were all regular hearing aid users and compared the signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) required to achieve 50% speech recognition in noise using OpenSound Navigator versus traditional omnidirectional microphone settings across various conditions.
OSN improved speech recognition by 4dB SNR when participants were facing the talker with steady- state background noise.
OpenSound Navigator allows children to benefit from improved speech understanding, regardless of head orientation. This is critical when in dynamic learning environments. By preserving access to speech from multiple directions, OSN supports incidental learning, an essential process in language and social development in school-age children.
OSN preserved speech from various directions without degrading performance when competing speech was coming from different directions behind the participant.
Takeaway: Both conditions translate to a 20-30% increase in speech recognition compared to OMNI settings.
Takeaway: This condition showed results comparable to OMNI settings.
OSN improved speech recognition by 3.8 dB SNR when participants were facing away from the talker with steady-state background noise.
