New Speech mapping equipment arrives....

Speech Mapping is now offered as standard to all our clients when fitting hearing instruments, it is a simple procedure which uses the latest technology to accurately set up and validate your instrument for you.

Speech mapping uses real life, calibrated speech, as opposed to the old system of “ pure tone Real Ear Measurement ”, so playing speech audio through the aid, a small microphone picks up the results and displays them against the calibrated chart in a graphical form.

We then match these results with your own audiogram to accurately set up separate levels and pitches on all the option settings within your hearing instrument.

We can run speech mapping with most hearing aids and will be happy to sit with you and run through the process at our Honiton branch, even if Honiton Hearing did not supply your instrument. This will enable you to hear and understand the improvement in results that is produced by speech mapping, and optimise the performance of your hearing instrument.

The Unitron Fuse  (launched November 2009)

Instant fit digital hearing available from Honiton Hearing Centre

Out of sight:
At about half the size of the smallest in the ear hearing instrument, Fuse is fully concealed inside the ear, yet fully loaded with technology that lets you experience natural, satisfying listening.

High tech:
We cut the size but kept all the sophistication of an advanced hearing instrument, including fully automatic performance.

Feels good:
Fuse is the first hearing instrument in the world that actually flexes with the natural movement of your ear canal for better comfort and fit.

Sounds great:
When something goes inside your ear, it can affect how your own voice sounds to you. Fuse's design is different than anything that has come before, and the result is remarkably natural sound.

The world's first crossover hearing instrument is ready the same day you are.

Starkey Introduces Sweeping Changes to Hearing Aids (October 2009) 

Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's leading hearing technology companies, is excited to introduce the new S Series™ BTE with Sweep™ Technology – providing a completely new way to adjust hearing aids. Sweep Technology replaces all of the traditional hearing aid buttons and dials with an innovative touch surface that allows users to adjust volume up or down and change memories with the simple sweep or touch of a finger. Even patients with limited dexterity can easily change their hearing aid settings.

“This technology makes hearing aids both smarter and simpler,” said Jerry Ruzicka, President of Starkey. “We have spent three years researching and developing a way to package this advanced touch surface technology into a hearing aid – and it paid off. Patients in our clinical trails have overwhelmingly preferred Sweep Technology to traditional controls.”

Traditional hearing aid buttons, switches and dials are often difficult for patients to find and manipulate. With Sweep Technology, there is no mechanical movement required for activation, no push buttons that oxidize and fail with time, and no openings around the volume control wheel that allow moisture and dirt to enter the hearing aid. The sweep surface is a single seamless control, giving patients full access to volume, memory and standby controls – smarter technology that makes patients' lives simpler.