Phonak AI Hearing Aids Receive 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award
Phonak AI Hearing Aids Receive 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award
Publish Date: 2026-03-25 00:20:00
Source Domain: hearingreview.com
- Phonak’s Virto R Infinio and Infinio Ultra Sphere hearing aids won the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards in the health category.
- The award recognizes products that use AI to enhance speech clarity and reduce background noise.
- The Virto R Infinio uses AI to identify the listening environment and adjust settings to optimize noise reduction and microphone directionality.
- The Infinio Ultra Sphere applies AI through a deep neural network to separate speech from background noise, enhancing the speech signal directly.
- Phonak’s commitment to developing intelligent hearing solutions is aimed at helping people with hearing loss to communicate more easily in various environments.
- The Virto R Infinio has also received other recent awards including the 2026 iF Design Award and the 2026 BIG Innovation Award since its launch in 2025.
