Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable Hearing Aid

Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable Hearing AidAbout the Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable Hearing Aid Bernafon is a leading Swiss hearing aid manufacturer that provides leading technology in their comprehensive product portfolio. Their hearing aids are suitable for people with mild to profound levels of hearing loss. The Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable hearing aid is their latest entry level aid model in the range. Alpha 1 is the first rechargeable hearing aid to utilise Hybrid Technology to Focus On:

About the Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable Hearing Aid

Bernafon is a leading Swiss hearing aid manufacturer that provides leading technology in their comprehensive product portfolio. Their hearing aids are suitable for people with mild to profound levels of hearing loss.

The Bernafon Alpha 1 Rechargeable hearing aid is their latest entry level aid model in the range.  Alpha 1 is the first rechargeable hearing aid to utilise Hybrid Technology™ to Focus On:

• Improved speech and listening comfort
• Bluetooth connection to numerous audio devices
• Rechargeable power for a full waking day of use.

What is the Hybrid Technology ™

Bernafon Alpha combines the following 5 hybrid technologies for exceptional listening comfort and speech understanding:

Hybrid Sound Processing™According to Bernafon there are two parallel strategies that process sound simultaneously in the time and frequency domains.

Hybrid Sound Care™  Hybrid Sound Care tackles wind and contact handling noise so as to remove disruptive sounds from the hearing aids. The feature makes 500 adjustments per second, across 24 frequency bands.

A major annoyance of hearing aid wearers can be due to roaring sounds caused by wind moving over the hearing aid microphones. By using 24 frequency bands, the  system can reduce the noise in only the narrow frequency region where noise is detected. Using this strategy the system reduces the effect of the wind and handling noise and leaves the rest of the signal intact.

So the wind noise protection system allows for a noticeable reduction in wind noise with the aim of enabling conversation in windy situations with improved speech clarity.

Hybrid Noise Management™  one of the main focuses in developing hearing aid technology is to improve their performance in competing background noise. That is to improve the signal of the desired speech and reduce the invasiveness of competing noise. To achieve this goal Bernafon Alpha utilises Smart Directionality. This is a form of microphone multi band adaptive directionality that is active in 24 individual bands. This interacts smoothly with Smart Noise Reduction which is optimised through machine learning. As described by Bernafon to maximise speech understanding  “The system constantly analyses the environment to determine the SNR, the types of noise detected, and the best way to process the signal to keep speech as the primary focus.”

Because everyone has a different tolerance for noise, different capabilities and priorities Bernafon Alpha provides flexibility for settings to be tailored to the unique individual.

Hybrid Balancing™ Speech Balancer and Noise Balancer tune sound amplification in the presence or absence of speech.

Hybrid Feedback Canceller™  Two estimators eliminate feedback in static and dynamic conditions with up to 126,000 measurements per second.

Bernafon Alpha comes in ten appealing colours: