Safari – helping children communicate
Extended bandwidth
The impact of extended bandwidth on speech audibility is tangible. With greater access to ALL parts of speech, children have more opportunities to hear the nuances in speech sounds and accurately reproduce them. Not only does Safari enhance speech and intelligibility in noise, the wider bandwidth adds depth to music. Whether it’s from MTV or an mp3 player, music is at the core of today’s youth culture.
Spatial Sound
Safari’s Spatial Sound feature helps preserve naturally occurring inter-aural intensity cues that are important for maintaining spatial awareness. When Safari’s Spatial Sound feature is enabled, the difference in intensity levels is retained and the natural localization cues are received by the ear and brain. By using binaural processing between the hearing instruments, the child with hearing loss can now have access to localization cues available to children with normal hearing.
Speech Guard
In Safari Super Power, sophisticated Speech Guard technology applies Floating Linear Gain to preserve the peaks and valleys of the speech wave-form, to keep it sounding authentic and distortion-free. In environments with rapidly fluctuating sound levels Speech Guard maintains not only the cues in the speech envelope, but also listening comfort.
LED status indicator
Intelligent LED signals are extremely effective, particularly for parents and teachers of young children. This visual communication helps them confirm that the child’s instruments are working properly. Unique blinking patterns indicate that the instrument is on; which program it’s in, whether the volume level is correct, and whether the battery is about to run out – a feature no other paediatric solution can offer.
Connectivity
Movies, computer games, music and mobile phones can put even the most sophisticated instruments to the test. Signals from external audio sources are best received directly and wirelessly; hence the introduction of the Oticon ConnectLine series . These smart-looking, user-friendly, wireless and Bluetooth accessories are easy to connect to TVs, PCs, mp3 players and telephones
Paediatric Fitting Mode
Our dedicated Paediatric Fitting Mode is an intuitive fitting flow that provides relevant data at the appropriate time. This tool will help you provide customised fittings for children of any age with confidence. Customisable default settings promote excellent hearing aid fittings and promise faster and more accurate first fittings.
