NEURO-COMPENSATOR™ Custom Amplification
The NEURO-COMPENSATOR™ based hearing instrument is powered by the newest groundbreaking neuro-biological technology designed to enforce an optimal signal from the root of the auditory nerve to the brain. The Neuro-Compensator™ amplifies the audio bands so as to target a near-normal neuronal activity in the auditory system.
Vitasound introduces the world's first hearing aid based on the Neuro-Compensator algorithm, a novel hearing aid amplification strategy. The Neuro-Compensator employs neurocomputational models of the pathophysiology of hearing loss to optimize the gain calculation in a hearing aid so as to generate a more normal pattern of neuronal firing in the auditory nerve of the hearing impaired listener.
Those affected by hearing loss frequently report difficulty hearing sounds in noise, or tracking a person's speech in the presence of multiple competing talkers. The key shortcoming in conventional hearing aids is that they calculate how much gain to apply within each frequency channel without taking into account the total spectral content of the sound coming in, thus ignoring how multiple frequencies interact with each other to produce a normal sound perception.
We take a novel approach to hearing aid design. The Neuro-Compensator employs sophisticated computer models of the cochlea to determine the optimal gain calculation for a given individual. Using a very complex machine learning algorithm, the auditory models are used to simulate how the auditory nerve of the patient responds to a given level of amplification across all frequency channels.
In the resulting hearing aid, rather than calculating the gain separately within each frequency channel, the gain at various frequencies are dynamically calculated as a function of the entire spectral content of the signal. Compared to conventional hearing aids, a Neuro-Compensator-based hearing aid restores a much more natural sound for both speech and music, while sound perception in noise and sound localization are greatly enhanced.
