The M&RIE design incorporates a third microphone placed inside the ear canal, capturing sound in the most natural way possible. This placement leverages the unique shape of your ear to collect sound, preserving the natural cues that help with sound localization and depth perception. 

By capturing sound at the ear canal, M&RIE reduces wind noise and enhances the overall sound quality, providing a more immersive listening experience. This design is particularly effective in outdoor settings where wind noise can be a significant issue. 

Users often report a more natural and comfortable listening experience with M&RIE, as it aligns closely with how we naturally perceive sound, making conversations and environmental sounds more authentic. 

Intelligent Focus utilizes AI-powered directional focus to hone in on speech directly in front of the wearer, making it ideal for noisy or crowded spaces. This feature combines an upgraded 4-microphone binaural beamformer with a noise reduction system that uses a Deep Neural Network (DNN) chip trained on identifying speech in noise.  

The system’s Intelligent Focus feature prioritizes sounds based on where you’re looking, making conversations more natural and easier to follow.This advanced focus mechanism ensures that users can engage in conversations with greater ease, even in challenging listening environments like busy restaurants or social gatherings. 

Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast supports direct streaming from compatible iOS and Android devices, providing high-quality audio with low energy consumption. This ensures that users can enjoy music, calls, and other audio content without quickly draining the hearing aid’s battery. 

Auracast technology allows users to receive audio broadcasts in public spaces like theaters, airports, and places of worship through the ReSound Smart 3D app’s Auracast Assistant.  

This feature future-proofs the hearing aids, ensuring compatibility with emerging audio technologies and enhancing the overall listening experience in various environments. 

Wind can turn a quiet stroll into a wall of low-frequency roar for hearing-aid wearers, because turbulence hits the tiny microphones at gale-force speed. ReSound’s Vivia microRIE tackles that problem with Wind Guard adaptive suppression, a feature that constantly samples the input from both external microphones and the in-ear M&RIE microphone. By comparing the signals and looking for the tell-tale, uncorrelated “whoosh” of wind, the processor decides in milliseconds how much of the low-frequency band to trim while leaving speech bands alone, so voices stay clear instead of muffled.

Inside the fitting software your clinician can pick from three strength settings on the top two tiers (VI9 and VI7) or two settings on the VI5, letting them match the algorithm to your typical environments, full sail on a seaside walk or lighter control for an afternoon in the park. The aid applies the chosen setting automatically whenever wind exceeds the threshold, then relaxes it again when the breeze dies down, so you should not notice sudden volume jumps.

In real-world use that means less fatigue and fewer “sorry, what was that?” moments when you are cycling, golfing or simply crossing a blustery street. Because Wind Guard only targets the affected frequencies it does not squash the liveliness of birdsong or cut battery life, and you can still engage Intelligent Focus or other programs when noise is more speech-like. If you ever want the system dialled up or down, a quick remote fine-tune through the ReSound Smart 3D app saves a trip to the clinic.

The Tinnitus Sound Generator provides built-in sound therapy options, including white noise and ocean sounds, to help manage tinnitus. These soothing sounds can mask the ringing or buzzing associated with tinnitus, providing relief to users. 

Users can customize the sound therapy to their preferences, adjusting the volume and type of sound to find the most effective relief. This personalization ensures that the therapy is tailored to individual needs. 

Incorporating tinnitus management into the hearing aid eliminates the need for separate devices, offering a convenient and integrated solution for users experiencing tinnitus.