Oticon Intent™

Clinical research and testing prove with confidence that Oticon Intent with sensor-driven BrainHearing technology delivers real-world benefits and outperforms the competition.

   

Clinical studies show that providing personalised support at every moment allows the user to more easily focus on the sounds that matter. Oticon Intent lets your clients engage in conversation like never before.

   

New evidence shows that Oticon Intent’s innovative 4D Sensor technology not only helps your clients to hear better, it also helps to reduce listening stress and sustained listening effort while outperforming the competition.

Oticon Intent – proven to take BrainHearing™ technology to the next level

Hearing speech in noise remains the #1 challenge for people with hearing loss. Noise impacts a person’s cognitive abilities, because the brain needs to work harder to understand what is going on. Oticon Intent provides a 31% reduction in sustained listening effort1 when following speech in a complex listening environments.

Dealing with loud noise and struggling to follow speech in noisy environments can cause our heart rate to increase.2 This is called listening stress. Even short periods of stress can have a negative impact on our cognitive abilities – reducing our ability to engage in conversation.3 Even in the most stressful listening situation, Oticon Intent instantly reacts to the user’s needs and provides the optimal level of support. As the world’s first hearing aid proven to reduce listening stress – it delivers a 40% reduction in listening stress1 compared to our previous premium model.

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For hearing aid users, having access to speech in noise makes all the difference in determining whether they give up on conversation or communicate and engage with ease. Traditional directional hearing aid technology struggles to separate speech from noise when coming from the exact same direction.

In a simulated noisy everyday environment, results showed that Oticon Intent delivered superior speech clarity from the front. Providing up to 22% better access to speech cues than leading competitors.4

When the listening environment becomes even more challenging and complex, like what users would experience in a busy restaurant, café, or family dinner, Oticon Intent is proven to deliver up to 45% better access to speech cues than leading competitors.4

Oticon Intent overcomes the limitations of traditional directionality by providing access to the 360-degree sound environment through seamless and personalised support. Helping the brain work smarter, not harder.

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Even within the same environment, Oticon Intent users experience intelligent, precise, and seamless adaptation of support spanning 5 dB output SNR. This is thanks to the 4D Sensor technology, which prioritises speech clarity of surrounding sounds when needed. This high-flexibility technology enables users to engage in conversation in all the sound environments where real life unfolds.

We put Oticon Intent’s 4D Sensor technology to the test by using virtual reality technology to reconstruct challenging listening environments to better understanding its capabilities. 4D Sensor technology outperformed expectations and was proven to deliver exceptional speech comprehension5 with a relative improvement of 15% compared to when the 4D Sensor technology was switched off.

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The brain constantly monitors the sounds around you, whether it’s someone directly talking to you, or sounds in the background that you may need to pay attention to. All sounds can be important, but which ones are most important at any moment depends on listening intent.

We put Oticon Intent to the test in a clinical EEG study to investigate how 4D Sensor technology helps the brain balance sounds of interest.

The study clearly showed that Oticon Intent enables significantly higher attention to environmental sounds while active, than during a more intimate conversation. And this was achieved without compromising the brain’s attention to speech – regardless of listening intention.5

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Hearing aid users were asked to evaluate the sound quality of Oticon Intent compared to our previous premium hearing aid in different sound environments. Oticon Intent ranked significantly higher than our previous premium hearing aid6 and hearing aid users experienced improvements both in areas where speech was important and in areas where awareness of surrounding sound was prioritised.5

  • UP TO

    BETTER SOUND QUALITY*

  • UP TO

    BETTER NUANCES IN THE SOUND SCENE*

  • UP TO

    HIGHER LISTENING COMFORT*

*Compared to our previous premium hearing aid

Read our latest research to learn more about the evidence and technology behind Oticon Intent.

  • Reduced listening stress

    Read more about how we evaluated listening stress and listening effort.

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  • Superior speech clarity

    Learn more about how we put Oticon Intent to the test in terms of speech clarity and access to speech cues.

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  • BrainHearing™ benefits

    Learn more in this whitepaper about the benefits of 4D Sensor technology in Oticon Intent.

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  • 4D Sensor and DNN technology

    Read our technical review and evaluation of the latest 4D Sensor technology and DNN 2.0 in Oticon Intent.

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1 Zapata-Rodríguez & Santurette (2024). Reducing sustained listening effort and listening stress with Oticon Intent™. New clinical evidence. Oticon Research Brief.
2 Christensen et al. (2021). The everyday acoustic environment and its association with human heart rate: evidence from real-world data logging with hearing aids and wearables.
3 Qin et al (2009). Acute psychological stress reduces working memory-related activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
4 Vatti et al. (2024). Superior speech clarity and access to speech cues. Oticon Intent™ competitive benchmark. Oticon Research Brief.
5 Bianchi/Eskelund et al. (2024). Oticon Intent™ – Clinical evidence. BrainHearing™ benefits of the 4D Sensor technology. Oticon whitepaper.
6 Brændgaard/Zapata-Rodríguez et al. (2024). 4D Sensor technology and Deep Neural Network 2.0 in Oticon Intent™. Technical review and evaluation. Oticon whitepaper.