Resound Smart Fit 2.0 Noise Tracker II

I have not changed any setting there … yet.

The short answer:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=Resound+Smart+Fit+2.0+Noise+Tracker+II24

The long answer:

https://cdn1-originals.webdamdb.com/13512_93554422_1?Key-Pair-Id=APKAI2ASI2IOLRFF2RHA&Policy=eyJTdGF0ZW1lbnQiOlt7IlJlc291cmNlIjoiaHR0cCo6Ly9jZG4xLW9yaWdpbmFscy53ZWJkYW1kYi5jb20vMTM1MTJfOTM1NTQ0MjJfMSIsIkNvbmRpdGlvbiI6eyJEYXRlTGVzc1RoYW4iOnsiQVdTOkVwb2NoVGltZSI6MjE0NzQxNDQwMH19fV19&Signature=YkNKDjJb6kHuCAwaAOlKzIXHM8dIABQRPqcGa4MwyNBN72fQLXDKFMFZ7YwsHNLT~f-~3NKg5D1gqVyf6TFQ1rAx~UXsU8cN5CHH1atP5B-NcC154bqyyCJot-aCIvb2VWgMNjZkQQgm6eMdAKFtXhhWWXXFOKsY~vStAzm1U4jM1jM~WXmbQfGmWFxPil0ImO9FxA6SUlyDXS9WGet~ZP-ijQZ0r6gNCE2spN5Md8~ZnWJ4Uv3EQd8s1UC9GKCY65I755BGyl0pRKA~Deg9ekqI6jPzrQTlEkHqPu27oPAkFfetv4sz7K7JKay-b3ek6DurYOx0xhQ0hZ0j~cximg__

@Rando said:

Why would you want any reduction in the actual voice when our main struggle is to hear voices?

Noise Tracker II reduces Noise. The settings are classified per Environment.

Found via quick web-search

https://www.gnhearing.com/en/research/features-explained10

Noise Tracker II per environment

Reduces disturbing background sound without affecting speech audibility. Noise reduction can be customized for different environments. Enjoy improved listening comfort, hear speech clearly, and personalise the experience to suit individual needs.

Reduces noise by spectral subtraction. It analyses the incoming sound and recognizes when speech is present within the individual bands. A spectral analysis is continuously carried out whenever speech is not present. This allows the noise spectrum to effectively be “subtracted” from the total signal without affecting speech. The amount of noise subtracted is dependent on the setting and is weighted according to a speech importance function.

For devices with a situation-dependent noise reduction, the setting can be different for each of the 7 environments recognized by the Environment Classifier. To ensure a seamless, natural listening experience, an infinite number of actual settings are applied based on a weighted analysis of the Environmental Classifier data.

https://pro.resound.com/en-us/research/features-explained/environmental-classifier12

Ha yeah sometimes it’s a work in progress, actually I thought you were doing pretty good on your own! It’s pretty easy to find these things, but as already mentioned I’ve not had to make any adjustments there myself.

https://pro.resound.com/en-us/research/features-explained/noise-tracker8

Let us all know how you get on with your DIY project using “noise tracker” should be interesting.

This page lists all the features available for you as well.

https://pro.resound.com/en-us/research/features-explained7

I’m dumb, but tenacious. As I was referring to with the jargon, I just finished reading the 15 pages of white papers referenced in that features article (once again, thanks all).

Now I’m really confused! I was thinking literally that speech was speech, but apparently it is one of the seven environments. So my lowering the number on Speech db reductions and increasing the number on Noise db reductions may not have the desired effect.

In reality, I can hardly tell the difference at -1 db Speech and + 1 db Noise. Maybe I’ll revert back to the OEM settings, which the white papers show have a significant amount of study behind them.

I wish there were more discussion that match my abbreviated intellegence. I try to parse my comments as such, so they can be referred to by anybody, even the laymen like me. Such as my dabbling in Expansion and Sound Shaper. I didn’t like either of those, made everything flat and lifeless sounding. I did find mild expansion helped with some of the quiet noises being overly loud.

I went back in to reset the Noise Tracker II to the default settings, and this brought up a couple of more questions and a comment.

Encountered these 2 screens.

First Screen, choosing the program to use. I found if I use the Reset to Initial Fit, it shows a different dome size and tube (wire) length, leading me to believe it’s the out of the box settings and not my initial fit. The only session in this profile is the very first and unmodified REM settings save from the new hearing aids. Am I right on the Reset to Initial Fit analysis?

Second Screen, Assuming I’ve botched it up so bad I want to go back to the original REM settings, and come upon this screen, do I select Calibrate, or is the original calibration carried over from the previous session? Is this the feedback calibration, and does it need a hearing booth to do it in?

I know it’s frustrating answering these same questions over and over for the new guys, please accept my apologies. And thank you very much for assisting me along my journey.

To add more context to the question, if I go all the way back to the beginning and reinstall the first session from my original profile, the one with the REM fitting from a professional that did do the feedback calibration, will I have to do the calibration again or does the calibration follow the session I’m installing? Reason I ask it this way is I don’t have a very quiet place. My computer and other equipment has fan noise.

All the calibration does is play loud noises into your ears and the microphones on the hearing aids pick up what leaks out and would potentially cause feedback. The hearing aids then adjust (ie lower) the gain so as to avoid feedback. If you have noise in the room then this may mask some of what the program is looking for and so the feedback cancellation may not work properly. But it might be OK. You need to minimise the fan noise for the duration of the test, which is only about one minute.

I don’t think any of us mind answering these sort of questions. All of us had to start somewhere!

Ok, here is where I’m at on the Noise Tracker II. My Jabra Pro 20’s were always hunting in the presence of steady state background noise. This resulted on an intolerable muted, then unmuted cycle ( I was about to give up and return them). I finally just started making changes to various settings, and only when I changed the settings in Noise Tracker II from Per Environment to Moderate did I find any relief.

Here’s the OEM setting. I tried moving the sliders, but the cycling continued.

Here’s what finally fixed it for me. I won’t say my tuning is done, but it’s now far better than where I started.

Noitice the Noise Tracker II is set at Moderate. This is about 6db of reduction.

Along with this I went into the Environmental Optimizer and made some very slight changes.

Here’s the OEM settings.

I pushed the speech settings up just a tad. To me, this resulted in better speech understanding.

I’m wondering if moving the Noise sliders down will reduce unwanted background clutter?