Technology Behind Agil

Oticon Agil provides better speech understanding with less effort by protecting the natural spatial and speech cues that are embedded in any sound scene. Because we hear with our brain, Agil's priority in all amplification and signal processing is to keep sound as natural and uncorrupted as possible.

The brain is wired to absorb all of the sensory information around us and to organize it into meaningful percepts. It untangles and separates different sound sources - such as one voice from another; sounds coming from the kitchen versus sounds coming from the TV in the next room, etc. The more accurately and naturally the information can be presented, the easier it becomes for the brain to create order out of the apparent acoustic chaos of a soundscape.

The higher the signal fidelity the more relevant the information becomes, allowing the brain to organize, select and follow a particular sound source, such as a conversation in a noisy restaurant. People with hearing loss must concentrate and work hard just to keep up in these situations.

If the signal is distorted, unclear, inaudible or degraded, the listener will be forced to spend more energy on resolving ambiguities in an already difficult listening situation. By providing the listener more natural and complete information they can concentrate on following and participating in the conversation. This gives them more energy to actively participate in conversations during the day.