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Phonak Launches Infinio Ultra and Ultra Sphere: Improved Processing, Battery

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In reply to @jim_lewis

Hi Jim: From my understanding, they did reprogram the chip. After the article you cited, I was told that the reason for the 30% increase in battery efficiency in Ultra was that they actually had the chip in hand and could see it operate under a variety of situations. So Sonova engineers were able to directly measure the chip’s real convolution layers, recurrent layers, memory access cycles, etc., allowing them to retrain the around the actual electrical behavior (per subsequent article on the Ultra launch at: Phonak’s Infinio Ultra Hearing Platform Lifts Off at NASA26).

@karl said:

From my understanding, they did reprogram the chip…

Good article - thanks!

I still wonder how many more percentage points of accuracy AutoSense will have to gain in order to recognize Miles Davis as music…

@JBC said:

Early or late Miles Davis?

I think this was Aura. Not exactly prolefeed, but it should have been recognizable as music to any hearing aid with even a little coolth.

If Autosense had trouble with late-period Coltrane, I’d cut Phonak some slack - in the Paris concert, a lot of the stuff sounds like a death match with a large, desperate goose…

Perhaps Phonak heard Roland Turner’s (John Goodman) explanation and threw up their hands.

“In jazz, you know, we play all the notes. All twelve notes. You know what they taught us at Juilliard? ‘If you’re gonna play all twelve notes, you gotta use all twelve notes, dipshit!’ Not three chords on a ukulele.”

My provider is having difficulty programing Deepsonic spheric program which we call restaurants. Wonder if you or other Ultra users know what needs to be enabled, or turned off so the Ultras are 100% effective in the manual base program for Deepsonic spheric program? Thanks Tony

@TonyF said:

My provider is having difficulty programing Deepsonic spheric program…

I answered this at some length on another thread where you posted the same question.

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