$359.00
Hearing amplifier for live conversations, mobile calls streamed audio, looped venues
- Personalized amplification only where you need it
- Large control buttons and charging cradle for ease of use
- Integrated telecoil receivers for looped venues
- Rechargeable for up to 13 hours of use
- Developed by experienced sound engineers and certified audiologist
Description
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
BeHear ACCESS is a stylish hearing amplifier for people who need enhanced hearing in specific situations. It looks (and functions) like a typical Bluetooth® stereo headset but also provides an enhancement for all-around hearing (live conversations, mobile phone calls, music play, ambient hearing), as well as assistive listening functionality. A dedicated free smartphone app allows wearers to fine-tune sound in real-time, and built-in Telecoil receivers ensure the best possible hearing in locales equipped with hearing loop technology. BeHear ACCESS utilizes voice processing technologies developed by Alango Technologies, Ltd. over the past two decades, such as:- ListenThrough™ – Passing through important ambient sounds during music playback
- EasyListen™ – slowing down speech dynamically during phone conversations
- Personal Sound Amplifier – providing dynamic, compressed amplification of ambient sounds
- Hearing enhancement functions – including noise reduction, echo cancellation, and more
ADVANCED BLUETOOTH STEREO HEADSET…AND MORE
The BeHear ACCESS assistive hearing headset belongs to a new category of sound enhancement products. It combines the functionality of three existing devices into one:- Bluetooth stereo headset for wireless mobile phone calls and media playback
- Assistive hearing device for enhanced intelligibility of speech and other important sounds
- Digital hearing aid for personalized sound amplification across a wide sound spectrum
SITUATIONAL HEARING ENHANCEMENT: WHEN YOU NEED IT
BeHear ACCESS can enhance hearing for those with normal hearing, as well as people with mild to moderate hearing loss. This is true for all situations:- In-person conversations
- Mobile phone conversations
- Music/audio streaming
- Television viewing
- Movies, theater and concert performances
- Outdoors, in nature
CUSTOMIZABLE FOR YOUR HEARING CAPABILITIES AND PREFERENCES
The headset itself includes a variety of controls to manage its hearing functions for six different hearing profiles:- Indoor
- Outdoor
- Crowd
- Live Music
- Telecoil (Exclusive)
- Telecoil (Transparent)
SOUND FOCUS™ FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF SPEECH IN NOISE
BeHear ACCESS supports three degrees of directionality, or “sound focus”: narrow, wide, and omni. Narrow focuses on the area directly in front of the wearer’s face, Wide amplifies important sounds in a 180 degree half-circle in front of the wearer, and Omni collects important sounds from all directions.ALLEVIATING THE “MY VOICE ECHOES” PERCEPTION
A typical downside of wearing a pair of earbuds is the “occlusion effect”; a perceived echo of your own voice when your ear canal is sealed. A four-step slider in the W&H BeHear app allows you to control how much you hear yourself when wearing the BeHear ACCESS headset.SUPPORT FOR UNILATERAL HEARING (CROS/BICROS)
In the CROS and BiCROS implementation in BeHear ACCESS, sound that reaches the microphones on the non-hearing side is transferred to the speaker in the ear bud of the hearing ear. When activated, the function takes effect for all hearing modes: Personal Hearing, Mobile Calls, and Audio Play. Furthermore, this function helps people with unilateral hearing to enjoy music and other stereo audio content. When activated, all streamed stereo audio is mixed automatically down to mono and reproduced in the functional ear, thus allowing people to enjoy the full sound spectrum without missing the channel corresponding to the other, damaged side.TECHNICAL SPECS
BLUETOOTH
- Version 4.2, Class II
- HFP 1.6, HSP 1.2, A2DP
- Range: 10m
ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE
- Maximal Sound Pressure Level (OSPL90), HFA: 116 dB SPL
- Full-on Gain, HFA: 42 dB
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): < 0.7%
- Receiver Specifications
- Speaker: 13.6 mm receivers
- Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz
- Microphone Specifications
- Microphones (four in total):
- Ultra low-noise 74 dB SNR ECM (Electret Condenser Microphone) in each earpiece
- Low-noise digital 64 dB SNR MEMS in each control box
- Frequency Response: 100 Hz to 15 kHz
- Microphones (four in total):
BATTERY
- Rechargeable single-cell Lithium-Ion
- Charging interface: Micro-USB
- Capacity: 250mAh
OPERATION TIME
- Hearing mode: 15+ hours
- Talk: 10+ hours
- Play: 8+ hours
- Standby: 600 hours
