Cochlear Implants

SmartSound: Beam

Nucleus Freedom with Smartsound

Beam for focused listening in crowds

Introducing SmartSound Beam™.  It is now possible to speak with friends in a noisy, crowded room without being distracted.  Beam’s unique dual-microphone system allows you to focus on sounds directly in front of you, while softening surrounding sounds — like shining a beam of light on what you want to hear. View a graph that illustrates the Improvement of Speech Reception Threshold with Beam.

Beam. Freedom to:

  • focus on a teacher at school
  • order a meal in a noisy restaurant
  • listen to colleagues during a busy
    discussion at the office
Two men talking in crowd

Surrounded in sound

A specific sound can be very difficult to hear if there is too much surrounding noise.

Two men sound-isolated in crowd

SmartSound Beam for focused listening

Beam enhances the sounds in front of you and softens those coming from other directions.

 
 
Document last modified: Wednesday, October 11, 2006