Who is Oticon?
The early days of Oticon can be traced back to 1904 when Hans Demant began importing the first hearing aids to Denmark. His passion for the business grew because he wanted to help people like his wife who had a hearing challenge.
In the 1940s, the company began manufacturing hearing devices and by the 1960s, it had grown to become a global manufacturer of hearing aids. Oticon is now the main brand of Demant A/S of Denmark, the world’s second-biggest hearing aid manufacturer.
Today, Oticon collaborates with Oticon-authorized hearing experts globally, including in Malaysia. Customers can visit Perfect Hearing, your helpful hearing professionals in Malaysia to undergo hearing tests and evaluations and acquire Oticon hearing aids or accessories.
Oticon’s Life-changing Technology
Oticon has always followed the approach of producing hearing aids that enhance the brain’s ability to process sound. Oticon follows a certain path: they assist the brain in making meaning of sound. Rather than focusing on the ears only, they consider the brain first.
They’ve been exploring brain-related areas in audiology for decades, and it’s been a path of constant discovery. They refer to this unique way of thinking as BrainHearing.
Products: Oticon Hearing Aids
All of Oticon’s hearing aids use BrainHearing technology, which integrates various software to improve the performance of the hearing aid.
The Oticon ON smartphone app can be used to operate some of their hearing aids. Users can use the app to perform the following functions:
- Adjusting the volume
- Checking battery level
- Using the “Find Your Hearing Aid” feature to locate your misplaced device
- Getting counselling
- Accessing user instructions
1. Oticon More
Oticon More with BrainHearing technology is a groundbreaking hearing aid that provides the brain with more of the necessary information it requires to better interpret sound, allowing you to understand speech with less effort and recall more.
- Increases the amount of sound sent to the brain by 30%.
- Increases speech comprehension by 15%.
- Reduces listening effort, allowing you to retain more information.
Oticon Malaysia offers a wide range of adult and kids hearing aids, some of them include:
2. Oticon Xceed
The Xceed hearing aid is the most powerful in the world. This device could help those with severe to profound hearing loss.
The Xceed has the following features:
- All-round access to speech to help hear people in different positions in a room
- Zero whistling sounds
- Wireless connection to smartphones and other devices
- Enhanced speech clarity with less listening effort
- Resistant to dust and water
This hearing aid comes in two versions, both of which are worn behind the ear. There’s also a modern design with control buttons.
3. Oticon Xceed Play (for Kids)
The groundbreaking Oticon Xceed Play is the first hearing aid on the Malaysian market that provides children of all ages with severe-to-profound hearing loss an open sound experience.
Your child’s hearing aid should support the brain’s normal sound processing.
Oticon Xceed Play delivers the finest possible settings for your child’s brain to hear in a way that helps them learn and develop.
Oticon Xceed Play features:
- All-round access to speech to help hear people in different positions in a room
- Zero whistling sounds
- Wireless connection to smartphones and other devices
- Enhanced speech clarity with less listening effort
- Resistant to dust and water
The BTE super power (SP) and BTE ultra power (UP) models of Oticon Xceed Play are both designed for severe-to-profound hearing loss.
Your kid can choose from 12 different colours to make a statement with bright and colourful selections or hues that complement hair and skin tones. Both designs come with a colourful set of stickers that your kid can use to customise their device.
4. Oticon Opn S
People with medium to severe hearing loss will benefit from Oticon’s Opn S series.
The Opn S series offers:
- All-round access to speech to help hear people in different positions in a room
- Zero whistling sounds
- Wireless connection to smartphones and other devices
- Enhanced speech clarity with less listening effort
- Resistant to dust and water
- Available in a rechargeable model
This device is available in four distinct variants and features a subtle design that rests behind the ear. Three of these models — miniRITE, miniRITE T, and miniRITE R — have a small speaker connected to a thin, nearly undetectable cable.
Oticon’s Opn S MiniRITE model is also the company’s smallest behind-the-ear hearing aid. The Open S miniRITE R, on the other hand, is bigger and more durable than the other three and is designed for persons with more severe hearing loss.
5. Oticon Opn
The Oticon Opn model is small enough to be hidden within a person’s ear. Individuals with varying degrees of hearing loss, from moderate to severe, will benefit from this variety.
This model is fully customisable and has the following features:
- All-round access to speech to help hear people in different positions in a room
- Enhanced speech clarity with less listening effort
- Tinnitus relief technology
- Wireless connection to smartphones and other devices
The Oticon Opn comes in five different variations, ranging from a small in-canal design to a bigger complete shell design. All of them are placed inside a person’s ear.
Oticon Accessories
Oticon Malaysia provides a variety of useful hearing aid accessories that will improve your daily activities and make your life easier. Oticon offers a wide range of hearing aid accessories, as well as child-friendly and classroom solutions.
Oticon accessories include:
- Chargers for rechargeable hearing aids.
- ConnectClip hearing aid accessory — transforms your hearing aids into a wireless headset.
- TV and music hearing aid accessories — allows you to stream your favourite programs to your hearing aids
Additional Oticon Accessories
a. Oticon Classroom
Oticon classroom solutions provide a variety of adaptable classroom solutions to help children and teenagers overcome the impacts of distance and noise while also improving speech understanding.
b. Oticon SafeLine
The SafeLine is a hearing aid retention cord for those high-adventure occasions.
With SafeLine, you can be certain that your hearing aids will not be misplaced, lost, or destroyed.
SafeLine is available in two lengths and works with all Oticon BTE, miniRITE, and designRITE hearing aid models.
All In All
Oticon is always researching and discovering new things regarding hearing loss. They collaborate with over 13,000 hearing aid users and hearing loss experts regularly to better understand what users want and need.
Malaysians can purchase an Oticon hearing aid through Oticon-authorized hearing experts in Malaysia such as Perfect Hearing. We provide hearing tests and other reliable hearing solutions in Malaysia.