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Oticon Own - Made For You 

Oticon has released the Own custom range to provide customisation, comfort and high quality sound. The Own runs alongside Oticon's already famous More technology and is the first custom hearing aid to use 'Deep Neural Network' alongside AI technology. The hearing aid is designed to give natural everyday sounds as well as speech using Oticons 12 million recorded sounds globally.

Oticon have long since used Brain Hearing Technology in their hearing aids (originally in the first OPN products) as part of natural listening. As human beings we hear through our brains. Oticon Own allows a natural sound source through so the brain can process with comfort and ease.

Features of the Product

We will now go through some of the features and facilities in the Oticon Own that makes it unique from the other coustom products on the market in terms of sound focus and quality of undertsanding everyday sounds and speech.

Exceptional Listening Experiences

Oticon Own is trained with 12 million real-life sound scenes enabling it to recognise and handle virtually all sounds with precision, so you can enjoy an exceptional listening experience. This means more natural sound from all aspects rather than just speech. A unique feature that is provided using Deep Neural Network and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Oticon's Polaris Platform

The Polaris platform is the backbone of Oticon Own. It is purpose-built for hearing aids. This focused approach allows it to constantly run a trained Deep Neural Network while powering all the hearing aid technology advances in Oticon Own with more speed, precision, and capacity than was ever possible before.

• 16 times more capacity to execute advanced algorithms

• Intelligent use of industry-leading 48-channel processing

• Twice as much computation capacity and speed

• Deep Neural Network processing

• Double the precision in 1.5-8kHz frequency bands

Deep Neural Network Process

The Deep Neural Network Process (DNNP) was developed incorporating Oticons ethos of BrainHearing technology. Oticon have focused on brain hearing technology since the launch of their original OPN technology. They have now combined this with DNNP which in simple terms is designed to actively mirror how the brain functions to provide unrivaled natural sound. DNNP has been trained using 12 million sound scenes based on real life sounds, to make sure that you get the most natural sounds from the entire world around you. Oticon is the first hearing aid company to train an on-board DNN with sounds recorded outside of the lab, radically transforming the information your hearing aids help you to hear with. Oticon Own continuously and automatically provides you with the optimal sound you need in any given situation, and it does all this while ensuring you are not overwhelmed by all the sounds around you. We break DNNP down into 4 stages:

- Oticon have recorded the environmental sounds.

- The sounds are then trained into the DNNP so that it can recognise them.

- The DNNP then offers natural balancing and accurate analysis of the users soundscope.

- High resolution sound is delivered quickly and effortlessly to cater for the sound scope. This uses Oticon MoreSound amplifiers.

MoreSound Intelligence 

'A Quantam Leap in Sound Scene Processing'. A bold statement from Oticon but one that looks to have some serious weight behind it. MoreSound Intelligence captures and optimizes sounds. It provides access to the complete sound scene, where individual sounds stand out in clear contrast to each other. By scanning and analyzing the environment at 500 times per second it provides precise analysis of the complex environment. Once this has been done it uses the user specific setup to provide the best hearing aid settings for that environment.

Once the sound scene is analyzed, MoreSound Intelligence precisely organizes the sounds around the user, and then utilizes the DNN’s vast training from real life to process and create contrast between the identified sounds. The result is a more natural representation of all sounds in a clear, complete, and balanced sound scene. This is used in combination with the MoreSound Amplifier.

MoreSound Amplifier

Oticon's latest amplification system. It has been designed to be the most balanced amplification system on the market. It works precisely and quickly to ensure that important details and dynamics are made audible and available to the user. More Sound Amplifier MoreSound Amplifier is a dynamic and balanced amplification system that seamlessly adapts its resolution and speed to the nature of the sound scene at hand. With a six-fold increase in resolution and an adaptive speed pilot, MoreSound Amplifier makes the full sound scene audible while maintaining the fine contrast and balance between sounds. This ensures the brain has access to the important information it needs to make sense of sound.

MoreSound Optimizer

Optimal gain all day, without the risk of feedback. The MoreSound Optimizer is an improvement on the OpenSound Optimizer which works along side Oticons renowned OpenSound Navigator to provide fantastic sound.

Sound Enhancer

Sound Enhancer put simply is, dynamic gain primarily for speech, given in complex environments. This is automatic and fast to provide a simple transition from one complex environment to another.

Spatial Sound

Spacial Sound improves ability to locate the most interesting and specific sounds the user wants to hear. Such as conversation in a restaurant. Again automatic Spacial Sound adjusts to give the maximum efficiency.

Soft Speech Booster

Soft Speech Booster improves soft speech understanding without turning up the volume. It gives a natural lift to those softer sounds whether in a simple or complex environment.

Clear Dynamics

Clear Dynamics gives better sound quality with less distortion in loud environments. Similar to a feedback system when sounds get too loud or overly present within the environment, Clear Dynamics kicks in to suppress them so they do not become uncomfortable for the user.

Wind Noise Management

Wind Noise Management improves access to speech in situations with wind noise. It filters the noise from the wind so the user can have comfortable conversations. Wind noise is still audible but the suppresser means it doesn't give any electronic static or feedback such as whistling.

Build Quality

The Oticon Own hearing aids are IP68-certified. That means they can withstand humidity and dust. They also comes with a manufacturers 5 year warranty for any repairs or services work needed.

Hearing Aid Styles

The Oticon Own comes in 4 different custom styles:

In The Ear (ITE)- The largest of the custom hearing aids which uses a 312 battery. Bluetooth enabled. Telecoil if required

In the Canal (ITC)- A smaller version of the ITE using a 312 battery. Bluetooth Enabled. Telecoil if required.

Complete in Canal (CIC) - The discreet in canal verison using a size 10 battery. No bluetooth feature or telecoil.

Invisible in Canal (IIC)- Invisible in the ear using a size 10 battery. No bluetooth or telecoil.

None of the Oticon Own products are rechargeable.

UK Hearing's Oticon Own 2 Star Rating

Wind Noise Reduction - ****

Natural Sound Experience - ****

Improved Speech Understanding - ****

Automatic Sound Adjustment - ****