Nucleus® smart sound processing technology
Whether you’re at school, in a restaurant, or at the office, let your sound processor take the hard work out of hearing by automatically adapting to your environment.
What you will find on this page
- How our hearing technology adapts to your listening environment
- How ForwardFocus^ technology is designed to help you hear speech in noise more clearly
Experience your best hearing
We understand that hearing in different environments can be challenging. That's why our latest Nucleus® sound processors feature smarter hearing technology designed to make communicating with people easier, particularly in noise.**
As you move through the day, our sound processors sense changes in your listening environment and automatically adjust your hearing settings using enhanced SmartSound® iQ 2 with SCAN 2^^ to help deliver clearer sound. Whether you're walking in the park on a windy day, sitting in a work meeting or chatting to friends in a noisy cafe, our advanced technology is designed to adapt to give you the best possible listening experience.1-4
When you want to focus on face-to-face conversations, an improved ForwardFocus powerfully reduces distracting background noise and can automatically adjust your level of noise reduction based on your surroundings.5,#
Hear your best no matter where you are, or where the day takes you.
Focus on what’s important
Feel part of every conversation and immerse yourself in each moment. Featuring enhanced ForwardFocus, our latest sound processors are designed to more powerfully reduce unwanted noise from behind you and can automatically adjust your level of noise reduction depending on your listening environment, so you can hear face to face conversations more clearly.1,5,#
ForwardFocus can also be user controlled or automated to help you focus on what's important in any situation.†
"With the Cochlear Implant I don't have a problem understanding my family, my wife and my daughter."
- Mathias B. - Nucleus recipient
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Disclaimer
Please seek advice from your health professional about treatments for hearing loss. Outcomes may vary, and your health professional will advise you about the factors which could affect your outcome. Always read the instructions for use. Not all products are available in all countries. Please contact your local Cochlear representative for product information.
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*For sound processor and app compatibility information visit www.cochlear.com/compatibility
^ForwardFocus can only be enabled by a hearing implant specialist. It should only be activated for users 12 years and older who are able to reliably provide feedback on sound quality and understand how to use the feature when moving to different or changing environments. It may be possible to have decreased speech understanding when using ForwardFocus in a quiet environment.
**Compared to Nucleus 6, Nucleus 7 and Kanso 2 sound processors.
^^SNR-NR, WNR and SCAN are approved for use with any recipient ages 6 years and older who is able to 1) complete objective speech perception testing in quiet and in noise in order to determine and document performance 2) report a preference for different program settings.
# Compared to Nucleus® 7 Sound Processor with ForwardFocus on.
† ForwardFocus is a clinician-enabled feature that can be user-controlled or automated.
References
- Mauger SJ, et al. Clinical outcomes with the Kanso off-the-ear cochlear implant sound processor. Int J Audiol. 2017, Apr; 56(4): 267-276. [Sponsored by Cochlear].
- Mauger SJ, et al. Clinical evaluation of the Nucleus 6 cochlear implant system: performance improvements with SmartSound iQ. Int J Audiol. 2014, Aug; 53(8): 564-576. [Sponsored by Cochlear]
- Wolfe J, et al. Benefits of Adaptive Signal Processing in a Commercially Available Cochlear Implant Sound Processor. Otol Neurotol. 2015 Aug;36(7):1181-90.
- Cochlear Limited. D1864200 SCAN 2 Design Description.
- Cochlear Limited. D1913968 Nucleus 8 Whitepaper.