How ai is used in HeARING care

Real benefits in the real world

AI is fundamentally transforming the hearing journey for both professionals and clients. By enhancing diagnostics, it allows for earlier and more accurate identification of hearing loss, enabling tailored treatment plans that meet individual needs. AI also supports ongoing aftercare, ensuring clients receive continuous support long after their initial fitting.  

How does AI help people with hearing aids in the real world?

AI isn’t just a buzzword—it’s making a measurable difference in daily life. Phonak’s AI-powered hearing aid features are engineered to improve how clients hear and function throughout their day.

Built on the Infinio platform, Phonak technology includes AI-driven features like AutoSense OS^™ and Spheric Speech Clarity, providing excellent speech understanding from any direction and in a wide range of real-life listening situations. This gives you a flexible solution for diverse client needs.

How does an AI feature like AutoSense™ help clients in the real world?

Always Universal. Whether you’re enjoying music, taking calls, or watching a movie, we’ve got you covered. Bluetooth® connectivity that’s easier, faster, and better.

Pairs with up to 8 Bluetooth® devices, with the flexibility to have 2 simultaneously connected
One-step pairing to myPhonak, smartphones and tablets for seamless connection to all your sound sources
Instantly shift between music (streaming) and voice (acoustic) and enjoy uninterrupted hands-free calls and streaming across double the distance compared to our previous generations

Infinio Platform with AutoSense OS: AI-powered precision – seamless adaptation

Your clients don’t live in one environment—so their hearing aids shouldn’t either. 

Powered by the Infinio platform, Phonak’s AutoSense OS 7.0 is an AI-trained automatic operating system that continuously analyses the sound environment—more than 700 times per second—to ensure the hearing aid adapts in real time to what the client needs to hear.

ASOS 7.0 has been trained on 18 times more sound environments than the previous generation, making it the most precise implementation of AutoSense to date—with a 24% increase in classification accuracy, according to technical measures.

Spheric Speech Clarity: Advanced speech understanding in noise

Speech in background noise is one of the most difficult challenges for hearing aid users – and a key factor in overall satisfaction.

Phonak’s Spheric Speech Clarity uses deep neural network (DNN) based denoising to extract, enhance, and integrate speech from any direction. This allows clients to hear what matters most, even in complex acoustic environments.

Spheric Speech Clarity offers benefits

Engage with friends, family members or colleagues even in the noisiest environments.

Experience a level of clean and clear speech that surpasses any current technology – truly delivering on “Life is on.”  Spheric Speech Clarity 2.0 boosts speech understanding by 50%.*

Be able to participate in a lively family dinner, follow an engaging lecture or simply enjoy a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend in a noisy environment. That’s the power of exceptional speech clarity.

Personalised Amplification

AI helps customise hearing aids to individual needs. AI can also analyse unique client needs, preferences, and listening environments to fine-tune hearing aids in real-time, optimising the listening experience. Phonak AutoSense™ OS is a splendid example of how AI-based machine learning improves speech understanding and reduces listening effort.

Earlier Detection

AI algorithms are analysing otoscopic images, audiograms, and even genetic data to identify hearing loss earlier and with greater precision. Imagine AI spotting early signs of presbycusis or Meniere’s disease, allowing for prompt intervention.

Hearing Health Management

AI-powered apps empower clients to take a more active role in managing their hearing health, complementing professional audiological care. For example, an AI-powered tinnitus app can learn unique tinnitus patterns and create personalised sound therapies to mask the ringing sensation. It can also incorporate cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to help manage stress and anxiety associated with tinnitus, ultimately improving overall well-being.