Jan S. Glick

Trainer & Content Design

A new

Generation

delivering

OpenSound

Experience

BrainHearingHearing care is a matter of health

Spoken Language Understanding should be automatic and effortless

What we will discuss today:

OpenSound Navigator: a game-changing technology

The impact it has had

What sets it apart

The Line-up

Our most powerful, most advanced platform ever – Velox S™

Opn S

Getting the most out of Opn S with OpenSound Optimizer™

Expanded access to OSN with OpenSound Booster

What you need to know about our lithium-ion rechargeable solution

What’s new?

The Foundation

The pioneering Velox

1200 MOPS

11 Cores

64 frequency channels

Analysing more than

100 times/second

113 dB SPL

upper limit input range

3.3 mA max stable consumption

Network-on-Chip

TwinLink

500 MIPS

Velox S

Increased processing

OpenSound Optimizer™

56,000 measurements per

second (30 times faster)

Rechargeable battery

OpenSound Navigator™The most powerful processing technology in Oticon Opn S™

OpenSound Navigator Dual microphone hearing aids

BalanceAnalyze Noise removal

Update speed: 10 msec versus 3 sec

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

Traditional

OSN

Seconds

The effect of

OpenSound Navigator

Quiet

environments

15 10 5 0 -5

Hearing loss with amplification

Hearing loss with OpenSound Navigator

Normal hearing

dB SNR

Noisy

environmentsHome RestaurantFamily dinner

Le Goff and Beck 2017, Oticon whitepaper, Juul Jensen 2018, Oticon whitepaper*

The effect of OpenSound Navigator

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Feedback risk

Time Risk

build-up

Short term

effect

(before 0.1 sec.)

Long-term

effect

(seconds)

No feedback

management

Conventional

technology

Feedback takes time to

build up

Feedback takes time to be cancelled

OpenSound Optimizer™ in the processing scheme

OpenSound

Navigator™

VAC+

Speech

Guard™ LX

Feedback

shield™ LX

OpenSound

Optimizer™

Two key improvements

Speed/resolution

Cancellation technique

Only 60 ms to detect and prevent feedback

Velox S™ allows significantly

faster detection and response

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Feedback risk

Time Risk

build-up

Short term

effect

(before 0.1 sec.)

Long-term

effect

(seconds)

No feedback

management

Conventional technology

Oticon Opn S™

Fre

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Time

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Feedback risk

Time

Oticon Opn S™

First Breaker Signal

Unique Hearing Aid Innovation

5 Other patent applications in US, CN, EU on core technology and fitting

3 Scientific Papers

Who benefits?

Allows for more gain – better match to target & audibility

6 dB more

gain

OpenSound Optimizer™ contributes to a more stable system

Improving and preserving sound quality

Unstable

gain

Boosting the OpenSound Navigator

1: Analyze

2: Balance

3: Noise removal

Two Options:

Booster on On App Very High in Genie

N = 103 Alta/Alta Pro Users Average HPD = 11.2 hrs

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<40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90+

Categorization by signal type

Q Speech Sp + Ns Noise

OS Booster Effect:• Activation of Balancing (DIR) in Simple Environments

• -3 dB NR in Simple Environments and lower

• -7 dB NR in Complex Environments

Requirements:

Booster on On App

• Oticon Opn S only

• On App updated

• Program set to “General”

• OSN set to “Open Automatics”

Why not set it to Very High permanently in P1?

How does Opn S compare to Opn overall?

Internal clinical validation

Background

Participants:

24 participants

12 BTE PP users

2 miniRITE T 60 speaker users

10 miniRITE T 85 speaker users

Mean age: 73,5 years

Mix of hearing losses

All participants are experienced and satisfied Oticon Opn 1 users

96% prefers Oticon Opn S over Oticon Opn

4%

25%

71%

Test HA much better

Test HA somewhat better

Own HA somewhat better

Oticon Opn S promotional sheet, 2019

Main reasons for preferring Oticon Opn S

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Speech intelligibility Sound quality Less Feedback Booster (n=7) Rechargeability (n=12)

Reason 1 Reason 2 Reason 3

Market-leading charging time

Charging time for a completely drained battery

3 hours

Fully charged

1 hour

50% charged

0.5 hour

25% charged

Open up to a connected world

An extensive

range of

connectivity

TV

Oticon ON App

ConnectClip

Music

Computer

Landline phone

Remote Control

more than 87

million have

severe to

profound

hearing loss

The next step in the Oticon legacyOticon has a long history of making high-quality power instruments.

Physiology and Auditory Performance48

Sumo DM Chili/Safari SP Dynamo/Sensei SP

2005 2010 2015 2019

Xceed/Xceed Play

Introducing the world’s most powerful hearing aid

146 dB SPL MPO and 87 dB full-on gain

Oticon Xceed 1, 2, 3

Oticon Xceed Play 1, 2

Oticon Xceed SP / Xceed UP BTE

51

Battery 13

Double push button

Volume, mute

T-coil

IP 68

Single push button

Program, flight mode

LED

Tamper resistant battery drawer*

*Optional

BTE SP and BTE UP fitting rangesFor severe-to-profound losses

Hook undamped

120110

54

Introducing Oticon CROSOutstanding sound

quality for those with SSD

World’s first CROS featuring OpenSound Navigator™

55 Oticon CROS - For internal use only

World’s first CROS with TwinLink™ dual-streaming

The Oticon CROS solutionAn overview

56 Oticon CROS - For internal use only

Transmitter Receiver

Poorer Ear

Transmitter

Better Ear

Receiver

What is CROS?

Contralateral Routing of

the Signal 2.4 Khz + NFMI

BiCROSCROS

CROS/BiCROS – contralateral routing of signalTwo methods for wireless transmission from a poorer ear to a better ear

58 Oticon CROS - For internal use only

Poorer ear

UnaidableBetter ear

Normal

hearing

Poorer ear

UnaidableBetter ear

Hearing

loss

Taylor 2010

Industry first - TwinLink dual streamingReceiver can simultaneously receive 2.4GHz and NFMI streamed signals

Oticon CROS - For internal use only59

2.4 GHz

NFMI

NFMI

2.4 GHz

What if the receiver is a different style?

Oticon CROS - For internal use only60

MiniRITE

no volume control

A New Generation Delivering OpenSound Experience

61 Oticon CROS - For internal use only

miniRITE BTE UPBTE SPminiRITE TminiRITE R Oticon CROSBTE PP

NEW

A powerful familyOticon Opn S™ and Oticon Xceed

A new

Generation

delivering

OpenSound

Experience

Oticon CROSFind the client’s favourite look

69 Oticon CROS - For internal use only

CO90

Chroma Beige

CO91

Silver Grey

CO92

Steel Grey

CO93

Chestnut Brown

CO94

Terracotta

CO44

Silver

CO63

Diamond Black