Chili SP9
Chili SP7
Chili SP5
People First
Inspired by the
everyday challenge
to interact, communicate
and participate
People First is our promise
to empower people
to communicate freely,
Main Features
Speech Guard
interact naturally and
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Spatial Noise Management
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Binaural Processing
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Binaural Synchronisation
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participate actively
Binaural DFC2
Binaural Coordination
My Voice
Adaptive Directionality
Multi-band
Multi-band
Single-band
Automatic DIR
Tri-mode
Tri-mode
Dual-mode
Noise Management
TriState
TriState
Modulation
Power Bass (streaming)
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Music Widening (streaming)
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Fitting Options
Streamer and ConnectLine enabled
nEARcom Cordless enabled
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Overall Loudness Trimmer
In-situ Audiometry
DSEsp rationale
DSL v 5.0a m[i/o]
NAL RP linear rationale
NAL- NL1 rationale
Fitting bands
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Identities
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6,5 kHz
6,5 kHz
6,5 kHz
Memory (datalogging)
AutoPhone program
More
Bandwidth
Analogue Volume Control with mute
DAI and FM options
T-coil
Program button
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Introducing the most
powerful, sophisticated
and smallest
Super Power 13 ever
Empowering people
starts with people
For people with severe to profound hearing loss, life can
be an uphill climb. Their reduced ability to receive auditory information makes interacting, communicating and
participating very difficult. Empowering them to overcome the everyday challenges both they and their families face requires considerable insight, groundbreaking
technology and a talent for innovative thinking.
Wide Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC) systems.
In Oticon Chili, new approaches in audiology help to optimise audibility and speech understanding. An exceptional amplification process provides excellent audibility
and minimises the distortion so often experienced with
Oticon Chili offers more power and peace of
mind than any other solution in the super power
segment.
Withstanding the demands of everyday life
In terms of cosmetics, comfort and reliability, Oticon Chili
more than meets people’s expectations. It also offers
new opportunities to communicate and be entertained
via the ConnectLine family of audio accessories.
Sarah, Doreen, Eric, Ellen and Kenneth gave us a new perspective
on how we can meet their very real challenges and give people
the ability to hear more, understand more and do more.
Oticon Chili:
So much more
than Super Powered
Providing audibility and speech clarity at frequencies
with greater hearing loss has always been a challenge.
Techniques were developed to move important high frequency information to frequencies with a wider residual
dynamic range, despite the danger of destroying the natural structure of the speech signal.
Thanks to recent technological advances we can now
make information from the entire frequency spectrum
audible and control acoustic feedback even further, to
allow people to use their residual hearing in the most
direct and natural manner.
Oticon Chili heralds the arrival of a new
generation of instruments promising
more than just super power:
·· Speech Guard
·· Spatial Noise Management
·· DSEsp rationale
·· ConnectLine
·· 24/7 reliability
Oticon Chili is designed to improve intelligibility more
than any other super-power solution - not only by
enhancing audibility but by managing speech and noise
signals in a manner appropriate for heavier hearing
losses. By preserving signal fidelity we offer access to
cues that are vital for speech understanding - especially
for those with reduced auditory resolution.
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
#1
Missing out and
misunderstanding
#2
Sharing the everyday
challenge
#3
Picking up
the phone
#4
Pushing
the limits
#5
Being yourself
Hans Schmidt, 45
Hearing Care Professional
Doreen Koffmann, 36
HA user for 33 years
Oticon Chili is inspired by real people and real-life situations. We spent time with super power users - at home, at
work, during leisure activities and social events – to learn
about the challenges they face. Those challenges begin
from the moment they wake up.
Ellen Pace, 36
Kenneth’s partner
Six people, both users and family members, describe five
situations that affect their lives – from an inability to follow and understand what’s being said, to difficulties communicating and participating…
Eric Mayer, 66
HA user for 25 years
Kenneth Cassidy, 37
HA user for 30 years
Sarah Davis, 24
HA user for 23 years
#1
Audiology
Missing out and
misunderstanding
How Speech Guard helps
In Oticon Chili, Speech Guard technology helps
users fill in the gaps by providing clear access to vital
details of the speech signal. Combined with Speech
Guard the renowned DSEsp rationale offers something entirely new: an ability to deal with difficult
situations where background noise and several
voices are competing for attention.
Speech Guard has a dramatic effect on speech
intelligibility and conversational competence,
making professional and social activities far more
rewarding.
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
”I am always
the last to know.
I am used to that,
but I don’t like it.”
Kenneth Cassidy
HA user for over 30 years
#2
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
Audiology
Sharing the everyday
challenge
Misinterpreting conversation
People with severe to profound hearing loss often
rely on lip-reading to register that someone is
addressing them, and to understand what is being
said. Another natural consequence of this particular
form of hearing loss is an inability to localise sounds.
In Oticon Chili the Speech Guard, Spatial Noise
Management and Split Directionality features
combine to deliver clear and comfortable speech
plus a better sense of where sounds are coming
from - even in demanding situations.
“I often have to remind
myself to face Ken when
we’re making dinner
together.
It‘s a difficult habit to
develop, but it’s absolutely
necessary for us.”
Ellen Pace
Kenneth’s partner
#3
Connectivity
Picking up
the phone
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
“Normally if I’m expecting a phone call
my wife will answer first and say ‘It’s for you’,
and I will be switching and plugging and
go to the phone and then I can use it.”
Eric Mayer
HA user for over 25 years
ConnectLine
– for a bigger share of life
ConnectLine offers new-found freedom to chat over
the phone, watch TV with friends and family and listen to music by sending the signal wireless directly
to the user’s instruments. The entire system can be
controlled with just a single, easy to use unit called
the Streamer.
#4
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
Design
Pushing
the limits
“I play safe and stick to Wii in my basement.
That’s how I can play sport without worrying
about damaging my hearing aids.”
Doreen Koffmann
HA user for over 33 years
Totally dependable
Oticon Chili is ideal not only for people who live active
lives but for anyone needing 24/7 reliability. A water
repellent nano-coating, built-in shock resistance and
high-tech moisture control make it totally dependable
and highly resilient to wear and tear.
#5
Oticon Chili vs
the everyday challenge
Design
Being me
Nothing to hide
Super power users often struggle with cumbersome
hearing devices that ‘wear them’ rather than the other
way round. Oticon Chili allows people to be themselves
by combining an attractive discreet design with high
performance and reliability.
Inconspicuous control features facilitate instant muting,
volume adjustment and program selection – all in a highly
compact casing.
“No matter how good I
look, if my hearing aids
are overly noticeable or
ugly it deflates me.”
Sarah Davis
HA user for 23 years
Let your clients
inspire you
Success with super power solutions depends to a large
extent on the dialogue between professional and user.
Probably even more so in the super power category,
where people’s needs are more complex and their sensitivity to the accuracy of the fitting is much higher.
Spending time with users in a series of everyday situations has taught us that being a super-power user does
not necessarily make you an expert. Upgrading to a new
instrument with a different kind of signal processing can
pose a major challenge for people who are already struggling to overcome the hassles of modern life.
Invaluable counselling tool
To help you enter a constructive dialogue with clients and to help them glean maximum benefit from Oticon
Chili - we recommended handing out the “My Chili” notebook. This notebook encourages people to reflect on and
describe the acoustic characteristics of the environments they encounter; situations they find particularly
difficult, the types of interaction they experience; plus
potential reactions from colleagues, friends and family.
insight gained into their needs and challenges can make
fine tuning more efficient and counselling more successful.
The benefit of the notebook is that it increases people’s
awareness of what to expect, just as diarising their experiences helps them take control of the acclimatisation
process. The input can be beneficial for you too, as
“Let’s empower people
by making sure
we understand and meet
their real needs.”
Concepts that
make a difference
Speech Guard
People with severe to profound hearing loss have a very
limited dynamic range. So, even if audibility is restored
they can still have difficulty understanding speech in
noisy environments, as their ability to exploit the subtle
speech cues is compromised.
Physiological changes can cause a reduction in frequency
selectivity, which makes understanding more dependent
on the amplitude changes and timing embedded in the
speech signal. This is why preserving the signal in its
most natural state is so important.
Moving on from WDRC
People with severe to profound hearing loss make particular use of ‘the speech envelope’: e.g. phoneme-to-phoneme changes in level. Until recently the amplification
strategy employed relied almost entirely on Wide
Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC).
WDRC may provide the desired audibility, but it notably
changes the natural amplitude-envelope of speech greatly obscuring one of the only remaining sources of
information available to the user. In Oticon Chili, Speech
Chili with Speech Guard produces a
clean signal and preserves the vital
temporal cues in the speech envelope
Original clean signal
Oticon Chili
High performing competitor
DSEsp – truly utilising the user’s auditory capacity
Guard technology ensures maximum audibility and word
recognition without the distortion typically encountered
in WDRC systems.
Protecting the speech envelope
It has been well documented that providing a clear and
natural signal reduces listening effort and increases the
listener’s ability to follow conversations. By avoiding
unnecessary rapid gain changes, Speech Guard preserves
the fundamental cues of speech.
Gain change is used only to ensure audibilty of soft
sounds and control very loud transient sounds. In stable
environments gain adjustment is gradual; hence the
resulting signal more closely matches the original. In
short, Speech Guard encompasses the benefits of linear
and non-linear amplification systems without the pitfalls
of either.
Determining the appropriate amount of gain and compression for super-power users can be challenging. While
too little will leave them struggling to hear, too much can
easily overload the auditory system, which may affect
speech understanding.
Oticon’s proprietary Dynamic Speech Enhancement
rationale (DSEsp) is designed to provide the desired
insertion gain and MPO, plus optimum loudness levels for
varying speech inputs across the relevant frequency
range.
In Oticon Chili, the improved bandwidth and the inclusion
of Speech Guard take this approach to a whole new level.
By preserving the speech cues and by utilising more of
the user’s residual dynamic range, DSEsp makes the signal far more useful for the listener.
Overall loudness trimmer
Oticon Chili’s Overall Loudness Trimmer helps you finetune the overall loudness to the most beneficial level for
all programs, rationales and identities without having to
consider frequency-specific details.
RISE 2
RISE 2 is more than equipped to tackle super-power needs the natural way. The
exceptional audio quality delivered by SpeechGuard and Connect[+] represents
achievements enabled by the new processing platform.
While Oticon Chili is busy
focusing on speech...
...the focus is rarely on Chili
Spatial Noise Management
– a smarter way to manage speech and noise
Built to last – quality to rely on
People with severe to profound hearing loss can have
great difficulty selecting and following a particular
speaker - a problem that Spatial Noise Management
helps rectify. This system automatically turns up
speech on the side where it needs to be louder while
attenuating competing noise on the opposite side.
Spatial Noise Management is automatically engaged in
instances where dominant noise from one side is
above the speech level. Its purpose is not just to provide the much needed audibility and comfort, but also
to reduce listening effort in noisy situations.
Directionality
– making speech audible and comfortable
Noise reduction systems, by their very nature, reduce
the gain in noisy surroundings – but this can include
the low frequencies, which is the main contributor to
loudness perception. Many users react negatively to
this loss.
Loss of loudness perception can also happen when
switching from omni-directional to directional mode.
All device-dependent users have one universal
demand: hearing instruments that are strong enough
to withstand the physical challenges of everyday life.
Reliability is much more than a practical issue; it is
about ‘daring to do the things I like’.
Oticon Chili is engineered to honour these essential
requirements. Every aspect of reliability has been rigorously tested and proven. The endurance specifications include tolerance to free fall, high pressure,
extreme temperatures, vibrations, chemicals, damp,
moisture and extensive use from wear and tear.
Oticon Chili is:
Fortunately this can be avoided by keeping the low
frequencies in omni mode. The fusion of Speech Guard
speech processing, Spatial Noise Management and
Split Directionality keeps speech sounding clear and
natural – and the combination has the potential to significantly improve speech understanding even in
demanding listening situations.
• Shock absorbent. The unique shock-absorbing fixation of the receiver prevents it from breaking should
the instrument be dropped or fall off the ear.
• Sealed permanently on the inside. This internal
seal protects the electronic parts from water, moisture and dirt.
• Resistant to water. Moisture and dirt are repelled by
a full body nano-coating and a battery door that
repels any water and sweat that might be trickling
down the instrument.
Such measures make Oticon Chili ideal not only for
active users but for anyone demanding 24/7 reliability.
BTE Super Power 13
– the most discreet device available
Seven skin and hair tone colours make Oticon Chili the
most discreet BTE Super Power 13 on the market
today.
In Chili, advanced signal processing
promises clear sound from all
sources. But the user may still have
difficulty separating target speech
from competing babble and noise.
Multiband Adaptive
Directionality
makes it far easier to stay focused on
the person in front. Split Directionality improves intelligibility while
maintaining low frequency audibility
and environmental awareness.
Directionality and
Spatial Noise Management
helps the user stay focused and comfortable. Undesired noise at one side
is reduced to improve awareness and
speech audibility from the front or
other side.
Users will love the slim design as it takes up very little
space on top of the ear, where space is already limited.
This allows more room for glasses if people need to
wear them.
Oticon Chili is also easy to operate. The control features allow instant muting, volume adjustment and
program selection.
Effortless access
to phones, TV and mobiles
Oticon ConnectLine
– redefining what users can and cannot do
Oticon ConnectLine offers Oticon Chili users fresh opportunities to keep in touch, stay informed and be entertained. A severe hearing loss can make using a phone or
watching TV hard work, but the wireless connectivity
options that are an integral part of the Oticon Chili solution totally redefines what super-power users can and
cannot do.
modern everyday communication needs in one easily
operated solution.
ConnectLine prevents signal degradation by transmitting
original audio signals from devices such as phones,
mobile phones, TVs and PCs, wirelessly to the hearing
instruments. Direct transmission right from the source
bypasses acoustic noise sources and offers full access to
clear, undistorted sound.
If the phone should ring during their favourite show, an
alert signal will be sent to both ears so they can take the
call without getting off the couch, just by pushing one
button. When the call ends, the Streamer control unit
automatically switches back to the TV sound.
A fast track to client satisfaction
Super-power users can benefit more from ConnectLine
than any other user group. They can take command of
the whole system with a single control unit, the Oticon
Streamer. This small, elegant companion integrates all
By sending the signal directly to the user’s instruments
ConnectLine allows the user to watch TV at their own
preferred loudness level while the rest of the family
enjoys comfortable sound from the speakers.
No conflicts
The Streamer control unit provides access to the sounds
the user needs to hear at the mere touch of a button. This
includes switching programs, listening to the TV, muting
room noise, answering their home phone or taking calls
on their cell phone.
The Streamer control unit lets the user hear
what they need to hear in any situation
– just by the push of a button.
Change programme, listen to the TV,
mute room noise, answer the landline phone
and pick up a mobile call.
Mobile
TV
Phone
Computer
MP3 player
Oticon Chili
– super in every way
Thank you...
The colour of real power
Oticon’s “People First” philosophy reflects an ongoing commitment to make
people the starting point for everything we do. The insights provided by users
participating in our research are invaluable. With that in mind, we offer sincere
thanks to the following individuals and their families.
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• Speech Guard
• Spatial Noise Management
• DSEsp Rationale
• ConnectLine compatible
• Slim, elegant design for discreet comfort
• Dual microphone system for advanced directionality options
• Transparent hook in two sizes
• Optional damping element
• Built in Telecoil
• Size 13 battery
• Connector for DAI and FM
• Program button with mute option and wireless coordination
• Volume control with level indicator, end stop and mute option
• Water repellent nano-coating prevents moisture from entering the instrument
• Permanent internal seal protects the electronics
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