The benefits of FM

Oticon Amigo FM teacher and children in classroom

Amigo FM Benefits

Studies have revealed a strong direct link between Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and speech understanding. Where children with normal hearing need a 3-5 dB positive SNR, the hearing impaired child needs 15-20 dB of positive SNR in order to be able to comprehend speech and develop their listening and language skills.

Amigo FM picks up the speech a few centimeters from the teachers mouth and delivers it over distance through radio technology intact at the listener's ear.

Three major obstacles prevent an optimum SNR. Click on the links below to read more about these three major obstacles.

Click here to read about noise

Learn more about distance

Read about reverberation