This Agil hearing aid from Oticon is a step-up on the scale of such devices, with an improved system that will let people suffering from hearing problems minimize the energy expended in listening environments without affecting the quality of the sound. It will perform well in situations where the person using it needs to understand speech as well and comes with a sleek design.

“People with hearing loss often struggle to hear and identify sounds, using considerable energy to follow even the most casual of conversations,” says Oticon President Peer Lauritsen. “Agil processes sound the way the human auditory system naturally does, preserving the fidelity of natural speech and spatial cues so that less energy is needed to translate and interpret the meaning of sounds - allowing the brain to perform other important cognitive tasks.”

How the Agil hearing aid manages to help users minimize the effort of their brain is quite simple. The device organizes, selects and follows sounds so that users will be able to do other activities instead of concentrating only on hearing. Whenever people with hearing problems hear, the brain has to do a lot of work in order to recognize sounds, then organize them and after these two steps, it all becomes natural, which is why the Agil does it all for them.

The Speech Guard technology embedded in the Agil is going to allow users to “lock on” a person that needs to be heard so that exterior noises will not interfere with his or her voice. It is a system that identifies individual speech patterns. Oticon offers an optional Streamer, a separate device that resembles an MP3 player and wirelessly connects to mobile phones and other devices. There is no word about pricing.


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