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In reply to @lello58

Amazing. Even receivers that claim amplification out to higher frequencies, it’s often with considerably less gain. Perhaps with newer tech this may change, but not in the immediate future.

In reply to @Baltazard

@Baltazard said:

I appreciate your input, but you are absolutely way off the sign, not sure where did I say Siri, also, I suggest you re-read my comment.

@Baltazard you did not say Siri, TheGoatLord is just mentioning the functional difference between a neural network and for comparence how a Siri- like system works. I don’t see what’s wrong with that. People should not be made afraid of any privat data stolen by a system Phonak now used in this Chip/ NN system.
Without beeing personal, I appreciate all of your knowledge and your input, but what’s wrong with the explanation.

OFF TOPIC:

@nope said: (unavailable)

This forum always has great info but the number of people who just straight up spread bad information because they can’t be bothered to google is insanely frustrating.

Brought a bit rude maybe but a forum always has a weakness as has the whole internet. False information could be leading to the degradation of mankind’s knowledge. That’s a pitty we have to live with.

Staying kind to everyone who is a partner of the forum seems of utmost importance. Everybody can make mistakes. We’re here to help each-other as a group of Hearing interested friends.

The This Week in Hearing YT video is all about the new Phonak hearing aids. It is a bit long at 52 minutes but contains some interesting information.

Hi

New to the group but here are my thoughts on the Sphere 90 version.
I have been using the trials for a few days and have been testing them everywhere I can.
They are hands down the best aids I have tried. I am currently using power domes to get the full effect.
I have been wearing them about 14 or 15 hours a day and still have 50% battery life left.
Give them a try I think for those that are in loud environments a lot it will really help.

Greg

Welcome @pproducts, can you please post up your … You appear to be the first to trial these Spheres, on this forum? Good Luck with your trial… Cheers Kev :grin:

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In reply to @MDB

@MDB said:

Amazing. Even receivers that claim amplification out to higher frequencies, it’s often with considerably less gain. Perhaps with newer tech this may change, but not in the immediate future.

@MDB, @lello58, Earlens 2.0 (1.0 also but it is unreliable) reportedly has outstanding sound quality and frequency response, but it is cumbersome and inhumanly expensive.

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@pproducts said:

Give them a try I think for those that are in loud environments a lot it will really help

Welcome! I propose to include a description of your observations in a new topic. I suggest the name “Phonak Infinio Sphere 90 review” or similar.

I am very curious about battery life in a loud cinema and which program is activated mainly in that place.

@pproducts said:

I have been wearing them about 14 or 15 hours a day and still have 50% battery life left.

I guess that suggests use in an undemanding environment. Could you to post a similar screen shot of the myPhonak app?

If you don’t mind, possibly a screen/print from audi datalogging after the trial.

Screenshot_20240821_163005_myPhonak

Clockwise: Quiet - Noisy - Streaming - Music.

@Bimodal_user said:

I am very curious about battery life in a loud cinema and which program is activated mainly in that place.

I doubt I’d use any Speech in Noise programme in a Cinema, unless it’s a very noisy/roudy audience?
Peter

@PeterH said:

I doubt I’d use any Speech in Noise programme in a Cinema, unless it’s a very noisy/roudy audience?
Peter

I also doubt. I think the best manual program would be “Music” for better sound quality experience, but I’m not sure about audibility of talking in the film.

Just curious about automatic program choosing.

In reply to @PeterH

I think he was referring to the dialogue scenes in very loud scenes in movies, which I am also very interested to know how Sphere performs.

The Music program, at least with my P90s, is no good.

I also wrote to the developers at Phonak to see if they had a specific program for movies, and they said they were working on it, but it must have been 2 years and I never heard anything.

In reply to @jim_lewis

This definitely would be cool. When talking with hearing aid developers, it sounds like they are currently busy at work getting the AI to recognize the spectral signatures of people’s voices. So, for example, your friends and family would start to be recognized by the AI system and it would give preferential treatment to their voices. This is, of course, is “down the road” stuff, but I think a “Companion Program” where you could teach the hearing aids who your common communication partners are would be helpful and it might be analagous to how Apple Photos uses AI to sort/classify (with almost scary precision) the folks who commonly appear in your pictures.

Hello folks, a little birdie informed me that the launch of Phonak Sphere in the UK, is next Wednesday (I think?) in Manchester, all the Audiologists present will be given a Phonak Sphere Trial set of Aids… The Audiologist have already had their training, and the one I spoke too, is super excited at the prospect of these new aids… We shall see? Cheers Kev :smile:

I believe the launch date for the UK is 30th August.

Wholesale Hearing are planning to ship the week after and the audiologist Boots I’ve been speaking with says they will have pricing in the last week of August.

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I used that to denoise *.wav records from Internet (not private), and the effects were really good:

Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio4

This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.

In reply to @AlexE

Yeah @AlexE, that Manchester event, is the launch day for Boots, with all or most of their A.uD’s in attendance, I believe the actual roll out, will be the following week? Cheers Kev :wink:

In reply to @WhiteHat

I’m extemely grateful.

Phonak just replaced my 2 Phonak Audeo Paradise P90R’s and Charger. The charger case even had a desiccant in that space. My 2 chargers provided almost 3 years ago did not have desiccant They were sent in when the warranty was about to elapse. They’re now 3 years old.

AND battery life is amazing. The last 3 years has been terrible often requiring 2 charging intervals a day…

I had commented to my dispensing audiologist CVA that my hearing aids were defective. And I hated the rechargeable batteries.

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