Hearing aid technology

Increasingly, AI technology is being used in hearing aids. AI-powered processing enables hearing devices to gather data about your sound environments and how you use your hearing aids, and then use that information to make automatic adjustments to your device settings.

AI hearing aid technology aims to improve sound quality in all environments, without requiring any hands-on adjustments. Hearing aids with AI technology can be found in our Miracle-EarSPARK™ products.

Auracast is a modern upgrade to telecoil hearing loop technology. Built on Bluetooth’s new LE audio system, this feature allows unlimited Bluetooth-enabled hearing devices to connect to a single broadcast audio stream.

This means you could tune into airport announcements, live performances in a theater, or commentary at a sports arena directly through your hearing aids.

While this cutting-edge capability is already built into Miracle-Ear hearing aids, public spaces like airports, music venues, and lecture halls are still in the process of adopting Auracast transmitters in their infrastructure. In the coming years, we expect this technology to be more widely available. 

Prescription hearing aids are designed to reduce background noise and amplify important sounds like the voices of loved ones, so you can actively participate in conversations. New advanced technology takes noise reduction a step further.

Hearing aids like those with M-E Conversation+  not only minimize distracting background noises in noisy environments but also help the individual to identify multiple voices within a 6.5-foot radius, so you can actively engage in conversation with multiple speakers, even as people move in the space around you.

Additional features like Miracle-Ear’s Wireless Windscreen also help with noise reduction from undesirable sounds. When you’re outside in windy conditions, this feature reduces or blocks wind noise in the affected ear. It also streams clearer audio from your other hearing aid—whether a friend’s voice, birds chirping, or the sound of a waterfall during a hike.

Rechargeable hearing aid batteries aren’t new—they’ve been available in larger hearing aid styles like behind-the-ear (BTE) and receiver-in-canal (RIC) for many years. However, advances in technology now allow rechargeable batteries to be built into smaller styles, including in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids, as well as some in-the-canal (ITC) and completely-in-canal (CIC) models.

And these rechargeable batteries also have longer battery lives. Most rechargeable hearing aid batteries offer 18 to 24 hours of power, allowing you to conveniently recharge them overnight. Happily, some models, like the Miracle-EarBLISS™, provide an impressive 51 hours of battery life on a single charge.

Advanced directional microphone technology in hearing aids can significantly improve your ability to distinguish speech from background noise. Hearing aids equipped with adaptive directional microphones allow wearers the ability to comfortably move between sound environments, thanks to automatic microphone adjustments.

While they pick up sound from a single direction, they can automatically change the direction based on live speech and sound signals. This makes it easier to follow conversations with multiple people in a noisy environment, enhances clarity of speech, and reduces competing surrounding sounds.

Bluetooth hearing aid technology allows you to seamlessly connect with your other electronic devices—whether you’re answering a phone call, watching a show, or listening to music.

With Bluetooth-enabled hearing aids, you can stream audio directly from your phone, television, computer, and more directly into your hearing aids. And for hearing aids with the additional feature of hands-free calling, you can answer a phone call from your hearing aids with the touch of a button.

Today’s best hearing aids have built-in mobile app integration, so you can easily adjust your hearing aid settings from your smartphone. With the Miracle-Ear hearing aid app, you can customize your hearing aid settings to better fit your current environment—from volume and program adjustment to environmental management and personalization.

This wireless hearing aid technology also has a “Find My Hearing Aid” setting in the app to help you locate your hearing devices when you’re not wearing them.

Modern technology has allowed powerful, high-performing hearing aids to be designed in smaller and smaller packages. Invisible-in-canal (IIC) hearing aids are the smallest hearing aid style on the market, and, as their name suggests, they’re nearly invisible when they sit in your ear canal.

This offers maximum discretion for those who want the benefits of a hearing aid without revealing they’re wearing one. CIC and ITC hearing aids are also very discreet hearing aids—though they’re slightly larger, which allows them to include more advanced features, like rechargeable batteries or Bluetooth connectivity.