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Oticon More 1 outperforms top competitors

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A significant majority of people prefer Oticon More™

Amazing results from tests using real-life complex sound scenes show that Oticon More hearing aids give the brain better access to speech. At the same time, they give faster access to more of the relevant sounds all around, in higher fidelity1. And this leading sound quality is preferred by a significant majority of people with hearing loss, across different sound environments2.

Compared to two top competitors, Oticon More gives:

  • More speech

    Better access to speech coming from around the wearer

  • More sounds

    Access to more of the relevant sounds in the sound scene

  • Faster adaptation

    More rapid adjustment to changes in the sound scene

  • Higher fidelity

    Better preserved sounds with more contrast and details

How we tested three of the world's best hearing aids

Learn about how Oticon More performed against two other leading hearing aid brands in complex real-life environments

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    Part 1: Better access to
    speech around the wearer

    Discover how this is possible without shutting down other important sounds

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  • Part 2: Faster access to more
    sounds in higher fidelity

    Dive into the details and see how Oticon More preserves the sound scene with more detail and clarity.

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  • Part 3: A significant majority of people prefer the sound quality of Oticon More

    Read how people with hearing loss rated Oticon More against two competitors in different sound environments.

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Key findings in our three studies:

Oticon More gives the brain better access to speech around the wearer while providing more sound – not less!

You can see in the graph how Oticon More hearing aids outperform Competitor A and Competitor B at giving access to speech coming from the side – and this is just one of the findings.

All together, these tests prove that Oticon More hearing aids give the brain better access to speech in complex sound scenes. At the same time, they give the brain better access to more of the meaningful surrounding sounds.

What is more, the tests show Oticon More gives faster access to more of the relevant sounds all around, in higher fidelity. This means the brain can be more easily aware of what's going on all around – helping people to participate seamlessly in their everyday lives.

Read more about this conclusive evidence in the whitepaper

A significant majority of people prefer the sound quality of Oticon More

After measuring the audiological performance of the three hearing aids, we then studied how people experience the sound quality.

We asked people with diverse types of hearing loss to evaluate the sound quality in different sound environments, in a preference test2.

Again, Oticon More outperformed the competition. Not only did Oticon More get the highest average rating in the different sound scenes. A significant majority of people preferred the sound quality of Oticon More over the two competitors, when listening to speech through a facemask and conversations in a restaurant or a café.

Read more about the clinical evidence in the whitepaper

See more about the sound quality preference test

To analyse people's subjective preferences, we asked a test panel of people with hearing loss to rate the sound quality of each of the three hearing aids in different real-life sound environments. The test subjects sat in a sound laboratory and listened to the recorded output of each hearing aid, using headphones.

Each person in the test panel used a computer interface that allowed them to switch between the different hearing aids at will, without having to restart the audio clip.

For each sound environment, they rated each hearing aid on a scale from 0 – 100. After listening to all of the hearing aids, they moved on to the next sound environment.

We used an adapted version of the well-established MUSHRA test paradigm (Multi Stimulus test with Hidden Reference and Anchor) for people with hearing loss in this study.3

How the competitor test was designed

We recorded the output of each hearing aid using a Head And Torso Simulator (HATS), which was positioned in the centre of a 29-loudspeaker test array.

The loudspeakers presented ambisonic reproductions of real-life sound scenes, while microphones positioned in the ears of the HATS recorded the output of each hearing aid.

The hearing aids were all fitted to the manufacturers’ default settings and features (first fit), with no further adjustments made.

Conclusion:

Oticon’s new approach to sound processing outperforms traditional technologies in complex environments


These test results confirm the effectiveness of Oticon's fundamentally new approach to sound processing: to give the brain more sound, not less!

Where the competitors shut down surrounding sounds with traditional directionality, noise reduction, compression, and feedback management, Oticon focuses on giving the brain more sound.

This new approach is possible thanks to a highly intelligent Deep Neural Network and the innovative new technology features: MoreSound Intelligence™ and MoreSound Amplifier™.


Explore the trailblazing technology in Oticon More

This is how Oticon takes hearing care to the next level


Oticon's leading innovations such as using a Deep Neural Network – and our whole new approach to hearing care – come directly from our unique BrainHearing philosophy.

BrainHearing is based on the realisation that the brain is the world's best sound processor! This is why Oticon always focuses on understanding and supporting the way the brain naturally makes sense of sound. It's what we do differently.

So when research showed the brain needs access to the full sound scene in order to work in a natural way4, our response was to make a new generation of brain-friendly hearing aids: Oticon More.

Want to see more about Oticon More hearing aids?

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1. Santurette et al 2021

2. Man et al 2021

3. ITU-R BS.1534-1 (2003). Method for the subjective assessment of intermediate quality levels of coding systems. International Telecommunications Union Radiocommunication Assembly

4. O’Sullivan et al. (2019); Puvvada & Simon (2017).