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Advanced Sound Processor for Cochlear Implant Users

Hear the world clearly

From speech to music, Advanced Bionics' cochlear implants (CIs) are designed to deliver great sound quality. Effective, reliable, and flexible, our latest sound processor – Marvel CI is the preferred choice among musicians, engineers and parents of young children.

A legacy of innovation. A future designed for you.

What makes Advanced Bionics special? AB has a proven record of improving sound quality, giving you the ability to hear five times more pitches than any other cochlear implant on the market.¹

How? Our advanced technology includes Current Steering and independent output circuits for all electrodes, which is not available in any other cochlear implant system! Thanks to this flexibility, the implant can be enhanced via sound processing upgrades. In fact, many AB recipients have had over four generations of sound processing upgrades.

What does that mean? Imagine listening to a piano, where every single note is clear. That’s the experience you’ll have with AB cochlear implants. While other CIs only capture every fifth note, our technology lets you hear the full range of sound, bringing a world of richer, more vibrant hearing.

For children, it also means the best chance for developing speech and language.^1,2

Those who hear with AB technology are already benefiting from this advanced technology, with even more possibilities to come.

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"(Percy) hears, speaks, and loves to sing along to the Beatles. He's learning to play the guitar, the drums, and the piano. Every single day, we think about how lucky we are to have had this opportunity to give our son hearing."

– Meghan Carey, mother to son Percy, who was born deaf and hears with two AB CIs

Clinically proven to help you hear speech better in noise

Do you wish you could understand the words of that great song you just heard on the radio?

ClearVoice™* is the industry’s first and only sound processing which can help you understand speech better, in both lyrics in music and voices in noisy places.³ This unique feature separates the distracting noises from the sounds you want to hear, so that you can enjoy conversations and songs with ease.

For children, ClearVoice has also been proven to help them understand speech better in noise, such as busy classrooms.⁴

Advanced AI technology that helps you hear better everywhere

The sounds on the beach are different from family movie night or dinner at a restaurant. Marvel CI’s AutoSense™ OS 3.0 can sense the sounds around you and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically give you the right blend of settings, programs, and features to help you hear your best.

Designed by engineers at Phonak, a leading hearing aid provider, AutoSense provides better hearing in noise without the need for adjustments. Now you can move through your day with the best hearing experience, wherever you are.

For children, AutoSense Sky OS 3.0 is the world’s-first sound processing steering feature designed just for children! It is made for settings like classrooms and playgrounds, so that you can have the peace of mind that wherever your child goes, their CI system will help them hear their best.

I love being able to put on the processors and forget about what program I am in because it’s all done automatically.

– Melinda Hayden, who was born deaf and hears with two AB cochlear implants

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Natural microphone placement for better hearing

Our ears have a special shape for a reason — they help us collect sound and figure out where it's coming from, whether in front of us or behind.

Most cochlear implants place their microphones behind the ear or on the head. But only Advanced Bionics offers the patented T-Mic, positioned at the opening of the ear canal — where sound naturally enters.

By placing the microphone here, the T-Mic takes full advantage of your ear’s natural ability to gather and direct sound.

Why it matters:

Clinically proven to help you better locate where sounds are coming from^5,6,7
Delivers richer, more natural sound quality
Improves speech understanding, even in noisy places⁸

And here’s the best part:

Even if you're not using a T-mic, AB's Real Ear Sound technology offers the same benefits so you still get great sound performance.

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Firszt JB, Koch DB, Downing M, Litvak L. (2007) Current steering creates additional pitch percepts in adult cochlear implant recipients. Otology and Neurotology, 28(5):629-636.
Quick A, Koch DB, Osberger MJ. (2007). HiResolution with Fidelity 120 Sound Processing: Listening Benefits in CII and HiRes 90K Implant Users. Poster Presentation at the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, July 15-20, Lake Tahoe, CA.
Advanced Bionics. (2012). ClearVoice Clinical Results. White paper.
Schramm D, Pickard E, Beauregard Y, Moran L. (2010). Evaluation of the ClearVoice Strategy in Children using HiResolution Fidelity 120 Sound Processing. Poster Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, Stockholm, SE. June 30-July 3.
Summerfield AQ, Kitterick PT. (2010). Effects of microphone location on the performance of bilateral cochlear implants. Advanced Bionics White Paper.
Jones HG, Kan A, Litovsky RY. (2016). The Effect of Microphone Placement on Interaural Level Differences and Sound Localization Across the Horizontal Plane in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users. Ear and hearing, 37(5), e341 e345.
Mayo PG, Goupell MJ. (2020). Acoustic factors affecting interaural level differences for cochlear implant users. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), EL357.
Gifford R. (2008). Speech Perception in a Realistic Background Noise: Effectiveness of Preprocessing Strategies and External Options for Improving the Signal-to-noise Ratio. Presentation at the 10th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies, San Diego, CA, April 10–12.