Phonak unveils Infinio Ultra, its next-gen AI hearing aids with clearer 360° voice enhancement, easier maintenance, and all-day battery life.
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Where is Naida BTE UP version? When will it be released?
I saw Matthew’s video on this: Is it just a firmware update with AutoSense 7.0?
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From the comments section on the video
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Does this mean that “ULTRA” is nothing more than a software/firmware update?
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100% - I think this is the future of hearing tech. Matthew
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Fantastic.
Good news.
I hope to get new hearing aids soon.
DaveL
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Indeed. I’ve just updated the Target software.
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Sounds like all current Sphere owners are getting a free firmware update to add the new Ultra improvements. Can anyone confirm?
Jordan
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I just go out with orders form my cShells remaking, but updated the Target software.
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Yes, thats correct. The Infinio Ultra upgrade is available with new Target Version 11.1.0 and available for all current Infinios. You can get the Ultra performance upgrade for your Infinio Sphere.
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So can I do this myself by updating Target on my PC? Or should I get my audiologist to do it?
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Thanks! Still need someone to confirm that the hardware (i.e. the two sound processing chips) in the Sphere’s and the Sphere Ultra’s are identical.
Very exciting news.
Jordan
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I updated Target and did the Ultra update today. Nothing to it , and my Sphere’s are a year old. My question is in regards to the new ear wax tech, wondering if we can upgrade with new speaker wires.
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Karl Strom’s article suggests that the Speech Clarity Chip in the Ultra Sphere is different (link in Abram’s OP post: Phonak Launches Infinio Ultra and Ultra Sphere: Improved Processing, Battery Life, and Ease of Use). The last section of that article is entitled “More Energy-Efficient Spheric Clarity 2.0 Chip.” So, unless the firmware update reprograms the original Infinio Sphere chip, it seems that you’re not going to be able to convert the original Spheres 100% to the Ultra chip level of performance, IMHO.
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It is a firmware update and not a hardware upgrade.
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I like hearing trackers stuff for the most part but this really really annoyed me. He made it sound like a completely new product and then at the end, you had to watch some super secret video, yet more clickbate as to how to get it free, when you found out it was firmware. Real shame on people who do this just to get views. Even if Phonak are marketing it as a new device, that should come at the start of the video not at the end, not in a separate one. People are already so confused. If I’ve misunderstood I apologise, but reading this thread it seems not.
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Oh and BTW from his description of the changes, I think I’m running the ultra platform in my Virto Rs. They have newer autosense and I can confirm it’s a single BT connection to the phone. My guess is the Spheric stuff is just an add on to the platform that they put in there when the hardware is present.
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The Sphere is an additional processor that piggy backs on the Infinio. How do you like the Virtio R infinio? I am interested in possibly get them.
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Yeah, Virto Infinio R has already much of the Ultra features, like AutoSense 7.0. Of course they do not have Spheric Speech in Noise 2.0.
@Xonic83 has already written the review:
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Might be just the placebo effect, but my initial impression of the update is the following. Everyone has different hearing and different hearing aid settings so my impressions are relative to what things sounded like to me under the original firmware with no change by me of my previous settings.
I hear a bit more high frequency sound. Sounds seem a bit cleaner and crisper, including speech. Because I wear a very occlusive fit (cShells with no vent to facilitate noise removal), my voice with the previous firmware not only sounded boomy in the base range but the overall sound of my voice seemed a bit suppressed (and I would overcompensate by speaking loudly). My voice is still occluded but sounds more natural to me after the update, giving me a better sense of the volume I’m speaking at. I have an improved sense of sound localization, too; my brain seems to be telling me much more decisively than before that sound is coming from a particular direction.
It would be nice if the firmware update made Spheric noise reduction come on automatically more readily. With the previous firmware, it took a really noisy place, like an Apple Store full of customers, to trigger Spheric noise reduction.
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