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In recent years hundreds of thousands of school children and college students have used Phonak FM (wireless) systems to better hear and understand their teachers.

With the arrival of Phonak’s groundbreaking new Dynamic FM platform, Phonak’s family of FM products has received a serious performance boost, ensuring that students with hearing loss and concentration issues are even less likely to feel disconnected from learning.

Based on a new processing chip and employing new algorithms, software and mechanics, Dynamic FM is an intelligent wireless communication standard that offers its users crystal clear audio, a plethora of new, usable features, simple set-up and configuration, and full device reporting.

Performance and Flexibility

The Dynamic FM platform offers the following seven industry-leading features:

• Dynamic Speech Extractor: Automatically and adaptively adjusts the output of the dynamic receivers to ambient noise
• AutoConnect: Eliminated troublesome programming procedures
• Multi-Talker Network:   Allows two or more speakers in a class to transmit their speech to the child without having to change transmitter settings
• DataLogging FM: Saves FM transmitter usage data for future analysis
• SoundCheck: Acts as a background noise indicator and assists with proper microphone placement for the teacher
• Monitoring: Provides a simple reliable systems check
• ChannelFinder: Designed to detect interference-free channels

Versatility

Dynamic FM offers solutions for hearing instruments, cochlear implants, Auditory Processing Disorders, and unilateral hearing loss.

See PDF for available Dynamic Products.

What the experts say….

“Hearing in noise is one of the biggest challenges for children, and the improvement in speech recognition in noise provided by Dynamic FM is unparalleled by any other advanced noise-management technology.”

Jace Wolfe, Ph.D.
Director of Audiology, Hearts for Hearing, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

“I evaluated Dynamic FM extensively with a group of children and adults with previous FM experience. Objective tests showed that the Adaptive FM Advantage (AFMA) in Dynamic FM resulted in significant improvements for the majority of participants in most of the speech recognition in noise conditions. Comments from the participants regarding the AFMA processing were that it generally sounded clear, louder, and easier to understand. For those classroom activities, 100% of the participants chose Dynamic FM over traditional FM. These results suggest that in noisy environments, Dynamic FM is clearly better than traditional FM.”

Linda Thibodeau, Ph.D.
Professor, Head Au.D. Program, Advanced Hearing Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas

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