Phonak Paradise mini-training 9

APD 2.0, Overtuning and

Other Phonak Target Features
Sng Lay Choo - Senior Audiologist and Brand Champion, Asia Hub
What’s new in Phonak Target?

• Hearing performance features

• Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0
• Feedback threshold overtuning
• Device options
• auto Acclimatization
• Client notes
• Acoustic parameters update
Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0
Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0

New
fitting formula

Hearing inspired by nature

1 2 3
Adaptive Linearized Pre-calculation
compression high level gain for mild-moderate
speeds hearing losses
Adaptive compression speeds – Intelligent compression
Input (dB)

Short sound Speech onsets

impulse

Time

Fast Dual Adaptive compression speed

1. Adaptive compression speeds – Intelligent compression

Advantages Implementation

• More dynamic range1 • Mix of adaptive and slow compression

in noisier situations, for music and
• Reduction of perceived reverberation1 media streaming
• Comfort in noise2 • 100% in quiet/calm programs
• Comfort for loud impulse sounds3

1. Hassager, H. G., Wiinberg, A., and Dau, T. (2017a). “Effects of hearing-aid dynamic range compression on spatial perception in a reverberant environment,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 2556–2568.
2. Kowalewski, B., Zaar, J., Fereczkowski, M., MacDonald, E., Strelcyk, O., May, T., & Dau, T. (2017). Effects of slow-and fast-acting compression on hearing impaired listeners’ consonant-vowel identification in interrupted noise.
In International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research. The Danavox Jubilee Foundation.
3. Lopez-Poveda, E. A., Johannesen, P. T., Perez-González, P., Blanco, J. L., Kalluri, S., & Edwards, B. (2017). Predictors of hearing-aid outcomes. Trends in hearing, 21, 1-28.
2. Linearized high level gain

Soft
kneepoint
Advantages

• Loudness comfort at
high input levels1
New Loud • Speech intelligibility for
Gain

kneepoint
loud speech in noise1
• More fine-tuning flexibility

APD

Input level APD 2.0

SOFT AVERAGE LOUD
speech speech speech

1. Lopez-Poveda, E. A., Johannesen, P. T., Perez-González, P., Blanco, J. L., Kalluri, S., & Edwards, B. (2017). Predictors of hearing-aid outcomes. Trends in hearing, 21, 1-28.
3. New
pre-calculation
• Mild to moderate
hearing losses
• G50 targets remains
unchanged
• G65 and G80 targets
are reduced for
mid-loud inputs
• All experience levels

Senn. M., (2020). An analysis of – fine-tuning applied at first fit. Phonak

Target Fitting Data. Unpublished data. Contact claims@phonak.com if
you are interested in further information.
 Did you know…
80% of participants reduces
listening effort, especially in
noise, compared to APD for
individuals with mild to severe
hearing loss!.1
80%
How?

Woodward, J., Jansen, S., & Kühnel, V. (2020). Hearing inspired by nature: the
new APD 2.0 prescription formula with adaptive compression by Phonak. Phonak
Insight, retrieved from www.phonakpro.com/evidence, accessed August 19th
2020.
Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0 in
Phonak Target
Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0
Adaptive Phonak Digital 2.0

Audéo P Audéo M

G80 G80

G50 G50
Feedback Threshold Overtuning
in Phonak Target
Feedback threshold overtuning
Interaction with WhistleBlock
When to overtune the feedback threshold?

Measured feedback threshold: Estimated feedback threshold:

1 Perform feedback test. 1 Check acoustic parameters & device insertion.

2 Does gain reach prescribed targets? 2 Does gain reach prescribed targets?

No – check acoustic parameters & device 3 No – overtune until gain reaches targets.
3
insertion. (Rerun feedback test, if needed.)

4 Overtune until gain reaches targets.

Other New Features in
Phonak Target
AutoSense OS™ 4.0
Soft Noise Reduction
Device Options
Bluetooth phone codec setting
Connection alerts
RogerDirect™ status
auto Acclimatization
Client notes
Acoustic code
Phonak Target 7.0 recap

• APD 2.0
• Feedback threshold overtuning
• Hearing performance features
• Device options
• auto Acclimatization
• Client notes
• Acoustic parameters update
Come and explore the
wonders of sound…

after all, there’s nothing like

the sound of Paradise.
Together,
we change lives