Oticon Connect-line

08/07/2009 by John Lloyd.

‘Connect-Line’ is the new accessory package from Oticon to work in unison with the Oticon Epoq and Dual Connect Bluetooth compatible hearing aids. Connect-Line is a proprietary Bluetooth system that has actually been developed in-house by Oticon to work faster than standard type-2 Bluetooth signal transmission, thereby removing any lip-sync issues that have been reported with early Bluetooth systems used with hearing aids.

 The package comprises a TV adapter which connects into your TV scart socket, and a phone adapter hub which connects between the wall and your handset, both of which are connected to the Oticon Streamer dual purpose remote control, which in turn streams the audio signal direct into your hearing aids, giving crisp and audible hearing.

The advantage of this is that you can overcome background noise issues when listening to the TV (great if you live near a busy road!), and you hear bin-aurally on the phone.

 The Streamer has already proved a boon to many peoples lives by acting as a hands-free kit for their mobile phones, and enabling music to be streamed from a laptop, or MP3 player.

The Connect-Line overcomes some fundamental problems that exist with other Bluetooth hearing aids, such as Phonak and Siemens. Firstly you can switch the external microphone volume between on and mute, so that you can turn then off when listening to music for maximum performance, and turn them on when on the phone so you can hear other people talking to you (say if working in an office) - of course, you can mute them when on the phone too, if there is too much noise. And secondly, you can have multiple devices working at the same time, and not just the last device used - so you can now have a mobile phone and landline phone is use at the same time.

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