SoundScape is the manner in which environmental detection is implemented in S Series high and premium products. Six SoundScapes are incorporated into the rationale: Quiet, Machine Noise, Wind, Speech in Noise, Noise, and Speech.
SoundScape uses a unique method of sound qualification and quantification to determine how to process each sound.
All SoundScape features provide a choice of five settings: For Quiet,
the 5 settings include: Off (0),
Minimum Expansion
(1), Moderate Expansion
(2), Strong Expansion
(3), and Maximum Expansion (4)
. For the remaining categories,
there is a choice of five settings: Off
(0), 5 dB (1), 10
dB (2), 15 dB (3), and
20 dB (4). By default, Inspire
sets the SoundScape settings to 2
in the normal memory, which provides a 1 to 10 dB gain adaptation. Increasing
the setting to 4 will broaden
the range of gain adaptation to 1 to 20 dB. Setting the SoundScape to
1 provides a 1 to 5 dB adaptation
in gain. Setting the SoundScape to Off
disables the specific feature. Clicking on the name of the feature will
display the SoundScape Time Constants. Time Constants default to medium, but can be adjusted to
Slower or Faster.
Comfort Control is included on the SoundScape screen and allows for
control over the activation level of the SoundScape features 
. Comfort control defaults to
setting 2. It can be adjusted
in 5 different steps: 0 = -5 dB S/N,
1 = -2.5 dB S/N, 2
= 0 dB S/N, 3 = + 2.5 dB,
and 4 = +5 dB S/N.