Tune in on life with SCOLAbuddy A new fm receiver from Widex
Meet your new buddy The latest member of the Scola FM family The successful Widex SCOLA™ FM product series has acquired a new family member: SCOLAbuddy, a smart, body-worn FM receiver designed to wirelessly deliver clear, easily intelligible speech to any hearing aid equipped with a telecoil. SCOLAbuddy seamlessly integrates with the other members of the Scola FM family to provide high quality sound anywhere hearing impaired children or adults may need it.
Clarity in the classroom with SCOLAbuddy For children to thrive in school, they need to clearly hear what the teacher is saying. Rendering speech intelligible for persons with impaired hearing, especially in a classroom or similar setting, is not just a matter of amplifying the sound. The problem with relying on hearing aids in such environments is often not so much what users don’t hear, as what they do hear: all the ambient noise and reverberation that people with normal hearing can usually screen out.
Tune in to the teacher SCOLA is a complete wireless fm system designed to accommodate most of the varied listening challenges that hearing aid users will encounter in an educational context. SCOLA alleviates the problem of background noise and greatly improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the transmitted sound by picking up the sound close to the mouth of the speaker and relaying this to the user’s hearing aid by means of wireless FM transmission.
Cool for kids SCOLAbuddy is designed to be appealing to children as a smart-looking, attractive unit that comes in range of colours. Most young people are accustomed to wearing MP3 players and other gadgets, and a device as tiny and classy looking as the SCOLAbuddy looks really cool. SCOLAbuddy comes with three different covers in the familiar SCOLA blue, as well as white or black, so that the user or educational institution can choose for themselves which colour they wish to use.
sound solution SCOLAbuddy is specially designed for use in schools and educational institutions, where it provides a number of advantages. Flexibility The SCOLAbuddy unit is worn on a neck loop (available in two different lengths), and delivers the signal via induction to the telecoil of the user’s hearing aid.
Reliability SCOLAbuddy uses tried-and-tested FM and teleloop technology. Like the rest of the SCOLA product family, SCOLAbuddy’s stylish but rugged construction is built to cope with the wear and tear of everyday classroom use. As a result, SCOLAbuddy should give years of problem-free operation. SCOLAbuddy is powered by a long-lasting, rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The unit’s power consumption is very low, which means that it can be used for around ten hours without needing to be recharged.
Benefits for the users: Benefits for the teachers: • Simple and intuitive three-button system, with LED indicators for battery/charging status and FM reception – easy to operate • 3 individual, software controlled volume controls for telecoil signal setting, audio input setting and headphone output setting - all in one mechanical control • Audio frequency range up to 7.
Easy to use Like the rest of the SCOLA FM system, SCOLAbuddy is designed to be largely automatic in use, requiring minimum intervention by the user. CHANNEL SELECTION Synchronisation of the user’s reception channel with the teacher’s transmission channel may be performed in different ways: • The user can manually scan for the teacher’s channel by pressing the channel button on the SCOLAbuddy device. • The teacher can wirelessly remote synchronise the user’s SCOLAbuddy, using the SCOLAteach transmitter.
FLEXIBLE AUDIO INDICATORS Technical data: Beep sounds in the hearing aid provide an audible indication of volume level changes, battery level and channel scanning. The volume level of the audio indicators can be altered. • • • • The audio indicator settings can be changed to alter the pitch of the beep tones. • • • • Accessories: Signal format: FM analogue FM frequency range: 169 MHz – 217 MHz Up to 50 channels stored in memory Reception range: Typically up to 15 metres.
www.scola.info www.widex.com It is our mission, through originality, perseverance and reliability, to develop high quality hearing aids that give people with a hearing loss the same opportunities for communication as those with normal hearing. WIDEX and SCOLA are trademarks of Widex A/S.
