Summary: Signia’s Styletto IX and Insio IX hearing aids, which feature the Integrated Xperience platform, are now available through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Indian Health Service (IHS). 

Takeaways:

  • The Integrated Xperience hearing aids are specifically available to audiologists serving military veterans, active military members, and American Indians, ensuring that these critical populations have access to Signia’s new hearing technology.
  • The Integrated Xperience platform enhances real-time conversation capabilities and optimizes speaker positioning detection for the hearing aids.
  • Signia says it has expanded its commitment to government services through significant investments in support offices, improved manufacturing, and quality processes. 

Signia’s Styletto IX and Insio IX hearing aids are available to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) audiologists treating military veterans, as well as audiologists within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for active military members, and the Indian Health Service (IHS) for American Indians.

Signia’s Integrated Xperience Platform 

The new hearing aids are powered by Signia’s groundbreaking Integrated Xperience platform, delivering powerful hearing technology in sleek, discreet form factors designed to support patients in noisy conversations while breaking down hearing aid stigma, according to the company. 

“We take great pride in providing the country’s veterans, active military members, and American Indians with the hearing solutions they need to easily converse in group scenarios and feel confident wearing their hearing aids,” says Nicolai Boeegh, vice president of Signia U.S. “Signia has made significant investments over the past year to ensure that government services hearing care professionals (HCPs) have the newest and most innovative hearing care technology available to them. This also includes next level service and support to maximize patient care and positive outcomes.” 

Signa’s Support for Government Services

Signia says it aims to deliver high-quality service to government services HCPs through its newly opened support office, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, and robust quality processes designed to ensure that Signia’s customer service is efficient and seamless. This re-imagined customer service approach, paired with the recent availability of Styletto IX and Insio IX, seeks to ensure that government services HCPs have both the solutions and support they need to deliver care to the patients that need it most. 

Slim Receiver-in-Canal Hearing Aid

The Signia Styletto IX hearing aid is the company’s slimmest and most advanced slim receiver-in-canal (Slim-RIC) hearing aid, featuring a comfortable design with a battery that can last a full day with up to 20 hours of runtime, according to the company. Styletto IX features Signia’s RealTime Conversation Enhancement solution, which is hearing technology capable of analyzing, augmenting, and adapting to the location of multiple conversation partners in real-time, delivering improved SNR benefits enabled by split processing technology. 

Through the Integrated Xperience platform, Styletto IX and Insio IX leverage insights into the changing positions of speakers to ensure uninterrupted engagement in even the most noisy, immersive environments – creating more engaging conversations that allow wearer’s to truly contribute and ultimately enjoy a more rich and meaningful life. 

Invisible-in-the-Canal Hearing Aid

The Insio IX Invisible-in-the-Canal (IIC) and Completely-in-the-Canal (CIC) hearing aids are engineered for conversations and designed for both first time and experienced hearing aid patients with mild to moderate hearing loss who are active in their personal and professional lives. They are Signia’s smallest and most discreet custom devices ever and offer the best speech clarity in noise for one-microphone devices. They are the only custom one-mic devices with directionality. 

The two new form factors are joined on the platform by Pure Charge&Go IX Receiver-in-Canal (RIC), the first Integrated Xperience hearing aid available through the VA and other government agencies. 

Featured image: The Styletto IX next to its charger. Photo: Signia