Resound and Cochlear "Smart Hearing Alliance" - Cochlear Implants - Hearing Aid Forum

Here’s a couple of official links to the Cochlear and Resound “Smart Hearing Alliance.”

I guess right now, they’re focused on just the /Direct-to-iPhone/Android streaming and bimodal streaming with their streaming products and not yet the benefits offered by having the hearing aid and cochlear implant “speak” to each other for sound-in-noise, etc.:

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Both pages discuss the benefits of bimodal hearing from the simple standpoint of having two devices. Then they discuss the Smart Hearing Alliance as what allows Resound and Cochlear to work together.

But I think having noise reduction be implemented in a bimodal way would be the next step. It’s interesting that ForwardFocus by Cochlear and Ultra Focus by Resound sound very similar in terms of being manually activated to focus on sound in front of you.

Phonak and Advanced Bionics already do this with their product line.

I hope Cochlear and Resound’s Alliance can eventually make it so that features such as Resound’s All Access directionality (works with both hearing aids to detect which side has a better signal-to-noise ratio) could be used together. Right now, the streaming is what works together. Phonak and Advanced Bionics (another implant company) do work together in noisy situations, etc. But maybe there’s more power here since they are owned by the same company as well (Sonova). But I could see Cochlear and Resound using their Alliance to make this possible regardless in the future.

Maybe the next generation will support this. Keep in mind that Cochlear has owned the brand for a few years, so the Resound and Cochlear Alliance helps both those with cochlear implants as well as BAHA devices.

Member 72 I’m with N7 & Resound Enzo. I don’t have any issues with background noise at all. If I do find myself in a situation where background noise is a problem, I simply turn down my sensitively right down, then activate forward focus. Not that forward focus does very much for my hearing.

If your sensitivity hasn’t been activated by your then ask them to do this. Mine was activated around the 4 months post activation of my implant. Every AuD follows a set plan for when things get activated though. It took around 7-8 months before all my added extras to my nucleus smart app were all activated. Then at 15 months post activation, when I removed my EAS hybrid attachment they activated all my volume controls.

If your microphone is very sensitive and picks up every little noise like mine does, it’s very distracting. It will be very interesting to see what improvements the N8 brings to recipients.