Phonak are one the largest hearing aid manufacturers in the world. They are based in Switzerland and are part of the Sonova Group, which includes Unitron.
Marvel Naida are Phonak’s most powerful hearing aids for treating severe and profound hearing losses. Marvel is the name of the platform operating the hearing aid, Naida is name Phonak uses for their most powerful hearing aids.
The Marvel Naida M30 is Phonak’s entry level product designed for users with quiet lifestyles.
Belong Naida includes all the features as the rest of the Marvel products though uses fitting formula called Adaptive Phonak Digital Contrast. This new fitting prescription is designed to help users with severe and profound hearing losses better distinguish between vowels and consonants.
Marvel also allows for true hands-free use of a mobile phone; keep your phone in your pocket and answer your calls by pressing a button on the hearing aid.
Marvel Naida runs on the Sword 3.0 chip which consists of 42 million transistors.
The chip runs the new AutoSense 3.0 software. Autosense constantly scans the listening environment and fine tunes the audio with up to 200 adjustments for an optimised listening experience.
Improved Binaural VoiceStream allows for real time stereo streaming between the hearing aids allowing for improved speech understanding in challenging listening situations.
The Phonak Marvel Remote app allows users to make multiple adjustments to the hearing aids.
Marvel Naida allows for remote hearing care. This means you can have a face to face video appointment with an audiologist who can then adjust the hearing aids remotely via the internet.
Phonak have also released a new app called Speech to Text. This app can transcribe speech to text so the user can read what is being said in real time.
Roger Direct Compatible Technology is built into Marvel. This means Marvel hearing aids can communicate directly with Roger’s suite of wireless microphones. Roger Microphones bridge the gap in hearing ability when in background noise is present and where there is distance from a speaker (more than 2m).