Speech Mapping allows you to illustrate to your patient how the hearing aid is processing speech or any other input in real-time by capturing curves and displaying them for easy understanding and verification of performance. It also allows you to provide counseling, fitting, and troubleshooting support during the initial fitting and follow-up fittings. A copy of up to 7 captured curves can be printed for reference. This feature is available for all product families and tiers except basic and economy.
Speech Mapping is only available during a live fitting. Curves can either be captured via Speech Mapping or any Fitting or Advanced Tools screen with a graphical view except Frequency Lowering, Hearing Aid Test, and Verify Comfort. The options to capture, manage, pause/play, and select the desired views are available via both avenues. Once Speech Mapping is activated, the frequency response graph changes to display the real-time information of the hearing aid(s) via bars or lines for speech input. In addition, Tinnitus Stimulus is temporarily disabled in all enabled memories while in this screen.
Click on the Read Device Settings or Load a Previous Session radio button and then click Start.
Click Advanced Tools from the Left Navigation Menu.
Note: The default views are Input + Gain and Bars. Input is represented in gold bars or lines and Gain/Output is represented in red or blue. If Bars is selected, peak-level indicators display for each band and adjust as the real-time display increases or decreases. If Frequency Lowering is enabled in the selected memory, Frequency Lowering precedes the word Input and if selected, displays the input to multichannel expansion compression output. |
Tip: The average response capture automatically stops recording after 10 seconds. To record less than 10 seconds, click or to stop the recording at any time. Once the average response capture is complete, a curve encased in a shaded region of the same color displays on the fitting graph. |
Note: Inspire automatically assigns the curve color in a pre-determined sequence (e.g., black, green, etc.), therefore, based on the number of curves captured previously, determines the color assigned. However, any curve color can be changed by clicking on the color swatch (e.g., , , etc.). |