Oticon Reveal: The first in Dual AI hearing -  designed to go far beyond speech.
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Oticon Reveal: The first in Dual AI hearing -  designed to go far beyond speech.

Oticon has launched Reveal™, the world’s first hearing aid powered by Dual AI. 

This marks a significant shift in the way AI is used in hearing technology: not only to make speech clearer, but also to give you the meaningful contextual sounds that help the brain make sense of any listening situation.

For years, hearing-aid development has understandably focused on the problem most people describe first: “I can hear that someone is talking, but I cannot make out the words.”

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Every Conversation Is a Complex Soundscape.
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Every Conversation Is a Complex Soundscape.

Conversation rarely happens in silence.

Whether you’re in a restaurant, walking through a busy street or engaged with people, speech is accompanied by countless other sounds arriving at your ears at exactly the same moment.

For the listening brain, the challenge isn’t simply hearing sound.

It’s identifying which sounds matter most.

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Your Ears Detect Sound. Your Brain Decides What Matters.
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Your Ears Detect Sound. Your Brain Decides What Matters.

THE SCIENCE OF BETTER HEARING

For decades, hearing science focused primarily on the ear.

Today, researchers are increasingly turning their attention to something equally important: the listening brain.

Every second, your auditory system receives an extraordinary amount of information. Voices, footsteps, music, traffic, ventilation systems and countless other sounds arrive simultaneously.

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Listening Fatigue + Listening Stress.
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Listening Fatigue + Listening Stress.

We've spoken about listening fatigue for years. Now science is helping us understand it even better.

If you've been with The Well Being BY CUBEX for a while, you'll know this. Long before it entered everyday conversation, research had already shown that listening can be mentally demanding. But it was our patients who described it first, and most vividly:

"Restaurants leave me completely drained."

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"My only regret is not having done it sooner."
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"My only regret is not having done it sooner."

It’s something we hear so often at The Well Being by CUBEX.

Patients arrive believing they are living reasonably well with their hearing loss. They've developed coping strategies that make it possible to function, both professionally and socially. They position themselves carefully in restaurants Ask people to face them when speaking. Fll in the gaps. Laugh when everyone else laughs. And stoically work harder than those around them - simply to stay in the conversation.

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“You listened...now it feels right.”
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“You listened...now it feels right.”

Debbie Vernon has been part of our audiology clinic world for over forty years.

Born profoundly deaf - one of the children once known as “rubella babies” - her journey with hearing began in the analogue era. Body-worn devices. Wires. Hard moulds.

And then, a moment of wonder.
Behind-the-ear hearing aids.
Sound, arriving fully, for the first time.

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“Hearing speech in noise is the thing.”
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“Hearing speech in noise is the thing.”

Dr Garfield Davies has spent a lifetime understanding hearing.

A retired Ear, Nose & Throat specialist, Garfield first became connected to our hearing clinic journey in the 1960s, during the early days of the audiology clinic founded by Monty Shulberg.

Decades later, as a patient of Adam’s, he remains part of our story.

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