
This is the cable connecting your hearing aid to the programmer. Therefore, software downloads are much harder to obtain. Starting 2010, hearing instrument fitting software is registered as a medical device. Note: We have problems accessing some of these links and we are not sure if the problem is temporary or not. Oticon Genie 2009.1 with SP1 (password needed).Juergen in has published a list of links to various fitting software and we reproduced the list here for your convenience. After watching the introductory videos, we were able to do some basic tuning within 15 minutes. We play with a couple fitting software and they are all easy to use. The best place to obtain the software is directly from your hearing aid manufacturer however not all of them are nice enough to make the software available to their customers. Some companies only sell the programmers to hearing aid professionals only.įitting software and driver. iCube is for Phonak hearing aids only and NS-PRO is for NewSound hearing aids. Some programmers are designed for certain hearing aids only, e.g. HI-PRO hearing aid programmer has a universal hardware interface for programming both digital and analog hearing aids. HI-PRO is de facto industry standard for hearing instrument programming and is supported by all major hearing instrument manufacturers. The USB Hi-PRO from GN Otometrics is the most commonly used programmer used by hearing care professionals.

Some manufacturers have made the tools available to their customers otherwise some effort is required to find these tools. The process of installation and tuning is not complicate. Then install the appropriate software and driver to interface with the hearing aid. To program a hearing aid, you would need to connect your hearing aid to a hearing aid programmer via a programming cable and then to a PC using an USB or serial cable.
