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Phonak: Motion-based beamformer steering

01 August 2020

Motion-based beamformer steering leads to better speech understanding and overall listening experience

This paper is a summary of a study (Voss et al., 2020) which was conducted at Hearing Excellence Clinics in Burlington and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. The new walking detection algorithm, Motion Sensor Hearing, launched with Phonak Paradise hearing aids was assessed via subjective ratings and hearing performance, while out walking in a real-world setting. Both subjective rating and hearing performance were found to be better with Motion Sensor Hearing than without.

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