Oticon empowers people with hearing loss to engage fully in sound, conversation and life’s moments.
Experience life wide open with Oticon BrainHearing™ technology.
Oticon
MISSION
Oticon challenges conventions and pushes technology to change the lives of people with hearing loss through its BrainHearing™ philosophy.
VALUES
- Brain-first thinking: Supporting the brain’s natural way of making sense of sound.
- Research leadership: Innovations born from Eriksholm Research Centre discoveries.
- User-centred care: Solutions designed around real listening needs, not assumptions.
- Sustainability: Commitment to responsible practices across products and operations.
Timeline of Innovation
Signature Technologies
BRAINHEARING™
Gives the brain 360° access to the full sound scene for better speech understanding and reduced listening effort.
DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN 2.0)
A trained neural engine (32 million sound scenes) inside the aid organises and contrasts sounds in real time.
POLARIS™ & SIRIUS™ PLATFORMS
Custom chipsets that power constant DNN processing with 4× the speed of previous generations.
4D SENSOR TECHNOLOGY
In Oticon Intent, head-motion, conversation activity, environment and sound level sensors personalise support to the user’s listening intent.
MORESOUND INTELLIGENCE™ 3.0
Scans the environment 500 ×/sec, balances speech and noise, and feeds optimised input to the DNN for natural clarity.
Social Impact
Oticon’s People First promise, born from founder Hans Demant’s desire to help his wife hear better in 1904, still drives the company’s work today. Every new product starts with BrainHearing™ research at the Eriksholm Centre, focusing on how healthy brains process sound and how untreated loss affects social connection and cognition. Guided by this ethos, Oticon funds clinical studies, develops tools like the Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test, and celebrates community advocates through the annual Focus on People Awards, which in 2024 recognised twelve individuals making hearing care more accessible worldwide. The result is technology, and outreach, that puts human needs ahead of hardware.
Oticon Hearing Aid FAQs
What exactly is BrainHearing™?
BrainHearing™ is Oticon’s research-based approach that supports the brain’s natural sound-processing instead of simply making sounds louder, improving speech clarity and reducing listening effort.
How do the 4D user-intent sensors in Oticon Intent work?
Intent continuously reads head motion, body movement, conversation activity and the acoustic scene, then adjusts amplification in real time to match what the wearer wants to focus on.
Does Oticon offer built-in tinnitus relief?
Yes. Tinnitus SoundSupport lets wearers stream soothing ocean or white-noise sounds through their aids, controllable in the Oticon Companion app.
Are Oticon hearing aids water-resistant?
Most current models, including Intent and Real, carry an IP68 rating—designed to withstand dust and 1 m of water for up to 30 minutes.
What devices can I stream from?
Oticon Intent supports Bluetooth LE Audio for select Android 14+ phones and two-way hands-free calls on iPhone iOS 15.2+; other recent Oticon models stream via Made-for-iPhone or ASHA.
How quick is a recharge?
A 30-minute quick-charge gives roughly eight hours of use, while two hours delivers a full day (about 20 hours) of listening.