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myPhonak Settings Explained

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Here’s some information on what the various sliders/controls in the myPhonak app do. This info was provided to my audiologist via Phonak.

Hope this helps!

  • Clarity – this makes speech more intelligible and aims to pick up those important speech frequencies
  • Comfort – this program is designed for noisy environments where the focus isn’t on speech, but simply making the sound more comfortable
  • Noise Reduction – Moving the slider right increases the ‘NoiseBlock’ feature within the hearing aids, while decreasing the slider to the left will decrease the strength to off.
  • Speech Focus – This changes the directionality of the microphones. Moving the slider to the right changes the mic mode to make the hearing aid microphones directional (a feature called UltraZoom), which emphasises picking up sounds from directly in front of you. Moving the slider to the left increases the ability for you to hear sounds all around you.
  • Dynamic – moving the slider to the right increases your ability to hear soft sounds (i.e. a quiet talker). Moving the slider to the left will then decrease loud sounds (for example if you wanted to reduce the volume of a loud talker, or you were in a loud environment)
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Good to know. I never think to make changes to these settings when I should.

Now if they just had a setting for walking with friends in crunchy Fall leaves…

In reply to @Nancydrew

@Nancydrew said:

bass-middle-treble what does the up/down do. I’ve played but with 3 adjustments not getting good results.

This is flower-gardening with a bulldozer instead of a trowel.

You know bass-middle-treble from music. The thud of the bass drum, the sizzle of the cymbals. And most speech/singing is “middle”. So it can’t do any fine-tuning where many of us need it most.

Less bass “may” help with some mechanical rumble, supermarket chillers, car road rumble, by reducing it so the mids-highs are not overwhelmed. More treble is slight help for my loss of s-sh-v-z-f-th sounds, though also makes TV sound (“tape hiss”) nasty.

If you find any difference this way, make a note of what band how much and the specific sound which gets better/worse. The professional fitter should know in detail what needs changing.

On the MyPhonak App there is a slider setting labelled “Dynamic”. I have not been able to find an explanation for this. On the left of the slider it says “Decrease loud” and on the right "Increase soft”. I am not at all clear about what this does. Increasing soft and decreasing loud are not opposites, as is usual in slider based settings. Both seem to be a way of giving soft sounds prominence over loud sounds. Can anyone example this functionality to me?

The opening comment mentions the purpose…
Increasing Soft allows softer sounds to be heard without increasing overall volume and the Other end is decreasing the loud sounds without altering the volume overall. Hope this is another view to help.

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