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Hello, my name is Paul Minikin from fmhearingsystems.co.uk
Today I'd like to tell you a little bit about the Phonak Roger system
The Phonak Roger System is
an additional piece of equipment that can be used with
your hearing aids and helps enormously to overcome
the issues where hearing aids all by themselves
just don't quite do the job. Different areas where you might find
the Phonak Roger System really helps is
hearing at distance and certainly hearing in background noise
which can be quite difficult
even with very sophisticated hearing aid technology, and in reverberent environments
for instance
things like watching the television and
hearing telephone conversations, things like that.
All these different applications in one way or another
you can use this equipment and it can help enormously.
But I'll just run through some of the basic things
that Phonak Roger equipment can do.
So, a Roger system is two parts basically, you've got a transmitter
and some kind of device to receive what the Roger
transmitter is sending.
The receivers put the audio direct into your ears,
you have got the response of the hearing aids to address you hearing loss
but importantly what the Roger system does
is reduce background noise on the fly.
It does that automatically without you doing anything and
a very important concept - Direct Audio Input.
It takes sound from an audio source at distance
and puts it straight into your ears. Enormous benefit from this type of device.
So the Roger Pen is
the centre, if you like, of the Roger system.
It looks very much like a pen, it's been designed in this way
it's aesthetically pleasing, it's discreet.
It's a very sophisticated piece of equipment. With the Roger Pen
you can use it in different ways.
In its simplest form
if you are sat round a table
perhaps having a meal in a restaurant or in the workplace
sat round a desk talking to colleagues
you place the Pen in the middle of the table
and the microphone mode automatically detects that the Pen
is laid flat and it goes into
an omni microphone mode, basically it creates a bubble
around the table so everybody around the table that's speaking
their voices are picked up by the Pen and wirelessly
the audio is input directly into your hearing aids.
This helps enormously in that type of environment.
It there's a lot of background noise in that type of situation you can pick the Pen up
and as soon as you pick it up, the microphone modes change,
the Roger Pen becomes far more directional. (Reporter Mode)
so the direction you point the Pen is where the audio is picked up.
It's almost like a torch beam.
You point the Pen towards the person you want to hear
and all the extraneous ambient noise around you
reduced significantly and you start to hear
the person in front of you a lot more clearly. There is another microphone mode that the Roger pen works in,
It's called Lanyard Mode.
and basically we have got a neckloop here.
We slip the pen onto the neckloop.
A very handly fast release magnet.
Place that around the neck of the person you want to hear.
They can walk up to to 20 meters away and you can still hear them
as if they are right next to you.
The microphone mode of the Roger Pen
is very aggressively cancelling the background noise so you can actually hear
better than somebody with good hearing the person that you need to hear.
It's a very sophisticated piece of equipment
and works very well. So that's the Roger Pen transmitting the audio.
To receive the audio
we have got a number of different ways of receiving the audio.
The simplest, most cost-effective way is with a neckloop
called the Roger Mylink.
The sound that is transmitted by the Roger pen is accepted
by the Mylink. You change your hearing aid settings
to the 'T' position (telecoil / loop).
Basically the sound transmitted by the Pen is received by the Mylink
and then via telecoil the sound is input straight into both your hearing aids.
It works very well. There is another way that is perhaps a little more discreet than a neckloop
and this is an ear level receiver.
Different ways we can do this - with Phonak hearing aids we have got integrated
receivers which actually match up and are the same colour
as your Phonak hearing aids. Basically it just makes your battery tray look a little bit bigger
and integrated in your hearing aids
is a receiver, so the only thing that
apart from the Pen that you are then using is a hearing aid
which you would wear on your ear of course that is automatically
receiving audio from the Pen when the Pen is switched on.
A very neat solution.
An alternative to integrated receivers is universal receivers.
We have the Roger X
which is a universal ear level receiver.
You need some kind of audio shoe
that clips to the bottom of your hearing aid.
You have got three little sockets there
and basically you plug the Roger X receiver
into the bottom of your hearing aid, it makes your hearing aid a little bit longer
but it's behind your ear. Basically then
the Roger X receiver is receiving audio
transmitted by the Roger Pen.
It sits behind your ear, you don't do anything with it.
As soon as you switch your Roger Pen on, any brand of hearing aid as long as we can
fit an audio shoe to it can be converted to accept
the Phonak Roger System.