The trailblazing technology inside Oticon More™

Oticon More is the world’s first hearing aid to give the brain the full perspective. This is thanks to a breakthrough in hearing aid technology like nothing before – a highly intelligent Deep Neural Network.

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Why is Oticon More trained with 12 million real-life sound scenes?

Until now, sound processing systems have been designed using theoretical models and man-made hypotheses of how to best enhance speech and reduce background noise.

But Oticon More hearing aids debut a new hearing aid technology – the Deep Neural Network (DNN) – that mimics the way the brain functions.

Why train a DNN? Open here to read more

Based on our vast sound processing experience, we have trained the Deep Neural Network (DNN) with 12 million real-life sound scenes. It’s our most advanced hearing aid technology ever.

The DNN has learned to recognize all types of sounds, their details, and how they should ideally sound.

This makes it so much more than a standard artificial intelligence software. It’s a unique and dedicated hearing aid technology, developed for real-time operation in everyday life.

With this integrated intelligence, Oticon More makes sounds more distinct, while working seamlessly across varying listening environments – all in order to optimally support the brain.

Explore our BrainHearing™ philosophy here

How did we get 12 million sound scenes into Oticon More?

We broke out of the lab

We went out into the real world with a 360° spherical microphone to collect sounds from real-life situations.

How did we use a spherical microphone? Open here

The spherical microphone is built from a number of advanced, individual microphones that are evenly distributed across a sphere. The output from each microphone is combined using advanced signal processing to capture a given sound scene with detail and accuracy.

This serves as the foundation for how Oticon More can process the full sound scene with unparalleled precision and clarity.

Also new with Oticon More:

Connecting to Android devices with Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid (ASHA) via Bluetooth® hearing aid technology.

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The Deep Neural Network is part of a fundamentally new approach to sound processing

To deliver the full sound scene, we have completely redefined the way we process sounds.

We recorded sounds from real life using a 360° spherical microphone.
We used the recorded sounds to train the Deep Neural Network (DNN), teaching it to recognize them.
The DNN is part of MoreSound Intelligence™, which gives precise analysis and balancing of the full sound scene.
Rapid, high-resolution amplification follows changes in the sound scene: MoreSound Amplifier™

Welcoming two groundbreaking new hearing aid technologies

Our new approach enables us to launch two new hearing aid features that ensure the full sound scene is processed and amplified precisely: More Sound Intelligence and MoreSound Amplifier.

MoreSound Intelligence

A quantum leap in sound scene processing

Oticon More features the latest hearing aid technology – MoreSound Intelligence – which captures and optimizes sounds. This provides access to the complete sound scene, where individual sounds stand out in clear contrast to each other.

How MoreSound Intelligence works

Scanning and analysis of the sound scene

MoreSound Intelligence scans the full sound scene 500 times per second, resulting in a precise analysis of all sounds and the complexity of the surroundings. It then applies the user’s personal listening preferences to establish a clear target for how to handle all varying sound scenes.

Processing and contrast enhancement

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 sounds¹. The result is a more natural representation of all sounds in a clear, complete, and balanced sound scene².

Watch our experts explain MoreSound Intelligence

MoreSound Amplifier

Giving precisely balanced amplification of every sound

MoreSound Amplifier is our newest hearing aid technology – a trailblazing, balanced amplification system. It works precisely and quickly to ensure that important details and dynamics are made audible and available for people with hearing loss.

How MoreSound Amplifier works

OLD conventional compression

In order to make the sound scene audible, conventional compression technology has applied a “one size fits all” approach. It handles all sounds in the same way, in fixed resolution. This has led to some sounds being over-amplified, others under-amplified, and some even overly compressed, creating an unbalanced sound experience. Not only does this deprive the listener of important details in the sound scene, it also makes it harder for the brain to make sense of what is going on around it.

NEW balanced amplification

In contrast, 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 sounds³. This ensures the brain has access to the important information it needs to make sense of sound², and it is why we believe MoreSound Amplifier is the best hearing aid technology for amplification.

Watch our experts explain MoreSound Amplifier

Powered by the new Polaris™ platform

The Polaris platform is the backbone of Oticon More. 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 More with more speed, precision, and capacity than was ever possible before³.

16 times more capacity to execute advanced algorithms⁴
Intelligent use of industry-leading 64-channel processing
Twice as much computation capacity and speed⁴
Deep Neural Network processing
Double the precision in 1.5-5kHz frequency bands⁴

With even more groundbreaking features

Click here to see all the features in Oticon More

MoreSound Optimizer™

Optimal gain all day, without the risk of feedback*

Virtual Outer Ear

Three realistic models of the ear pinna to provide better spatial balance

Sound Enhancer

Dynamic gain primarily for speech, given in complex environments

Spatial Sound™

Improves ability to locate the most interesting sounds

Speech Rescue™

Makes high frequency sounds more audible

Soft Speech Booster

Improves soft speech understanding without turning up the volume

Clear Dynamics

Better sound quality with less distortion in loud environments

Wind Noise Management

Improves access to speech in situations with wind noise

Tinnitus SoundSupport™

Relief sounds for tinnitus patients

*The benefits may vary depending on hearing loss.

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¹Brændgaard, M. 2020a. MoreSound Intelligence. Oticon tech paper.

²Santurette, S. & Behrens, T. 2020. The audiology of Oticon More. Oticon whitepaper.

³Brændgaard, M. 2020b. The Polaris Platform. Oticon tech paper

⁴Compared to Velox S platform.