Starkey Hearing Aids
Austin Hearing Aid Center is an authorized provider of Starkey Hearing Aids in Austin, TX.
Starkey hearing aids are designed to help you hear clearly and live more fully. Known for their smart technology and comfortable fit, Starkey offers hearing aids that make conversations easier, even in noisy places.
Whether you’re new to hearing aids or looking to upgrade, Starkey has styles for all needs, including invisible options and rechargeable models.
At Austin Hearing Aid Center, we’ll guide you through the process of choosing the right Starkey hearing aid based on your hearing loss, lifestyle, and budget. Let us help you hear the moments that matter most.
Starkey Hearing Aid Models in Austin, TX
Austin Hearing Aid Center offers a wide selection of hearing aids in Austin, TX. Learn more about the latest Starkey hearing aids below:
Starkey Omega AI
Starkey Omega AI is built with industry-leading technology that gives users powerful sound clarity and day-long comfort. Its advanced AI system constantly analyzes your surroundings to help you hear speech clearly, stay aware of important sounds, and move through different environments with ease.
If you struggle with hearing in noisy places, Omega AI’s Edge Mode+ provides on-demand help by sharpening speech instantly, even in challenging spaces like restaurants, shopping centers, or family gatherings.
These hearing aids are also designed for durability. With a 10x more durable waterproof coating, Omega AI can handle rain, sweat, and everyday wear without worry. Rechargeable options give all-day power, keeping you connected from morning to night.
Unique Features:
- Edge Mode+: Boosts speech clarity during tough listening moments.
- Waterproof & Everyday-Proof: Designed for active lifestyles and all-day comfort.
- Auracast™ & LE Audio Ready: Allows streaming from TVs, smartphones, public announcement systems, and more.
- Starkey App (Now Powered by Gen AI): Use TeleHear AI for instant, AI-based sound adjustments.
Starkey Signature Series
The Starkey Signature Series is designed to deliver clear, personalized sound in every environment. These advanced hearing aids use cutting-edge artificial intelligence to adapt to your surroundings, reduce background noise, and improve speech understanding. It comes with sleek, comfortable designs and options like rechargeable batteries and Bluetooth streaming to fit seamlessly into your daily life.
Unique Features:
- Discreet: Nearly invisible and fits deep in your ear.
- Natural Sound: Clear, lifelike sound so you can enjoy every moment.
- Rechargeable: Up to 38 hours of power—no tiny batteries to change.
- Waterproof: Designed to handle water up to 1 meter deep.
- Custom Fit: Made just for your ears for all-day comfort and security.
Starkey Genesis AI RIC
he Starkey Genesis AI RIC (Receiver-in-Canal) is one of the most advanced hearing aids available today. Designed with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Genesis AI learns your listening preferences and automatically adjusts to help you hear better in every environment. It offers a sleek, modern design with all-day rechargeable power, Bluetooth streaming, and health tracking features built in. The Genesis AI RIC gives you clear, natural sound and smart technology that fits comfortably behind your ear.
Unique Features:
- Waterproof: Starkey’s Pro8 HydraShield features eight protective layers specifically targeting ingress and corrosion – ensuring Genesis AI devices can withstand sweat, rain, dirt, drops, and dunks.
- Bluetooth Connectivity: The My Starkey app pairs with Genesis AI hearing aids to help you enjoy greater listening moments, improved well-being, and easier everyday living – all from the palm of your hand. Enjoy convenient features such as adjusting hearing aid settings, streaming calls, and even finding lost hearing aids.
- Remote Support: TeleHear is a remote telehealth solution that keeps you connected when you can’t make it to the office. This assists your concerns on demand with remote adjustments via video chat.
- Customizable Tinnitus Relief: Multiflex Tinnitus Technology enables superior flexibility in fine-tuning a relieving sound stimulus for each individual.
Starkey Evolv AI Power Plus BTE
The Starkey Evolv AI Power Plus BTE is a strong and smart hearing aid made for people with severe or profound hearing loss. This behind-the-ear (BTE) model gives you clear, loud sound while helping you feel comfortable all day. The Power Plus BTE has extra strength to help you hear speech clearly and feel more confident in conversations.
Unique Features:
- Bluetooth Connectivity: The Thrive Hearing Control app pairs with Evolv AI Power Plus BTE hearing aids to help you enjoy greater listening moments, improved well-being, and easier everyday living – all from the palm of your hand. Enjoy convenient features such as adjusting hearing aid settings, streaming calls, and even finding lost hearing aids.
- Remote Support: TeleHear is a remote telehealth solution that keeps you connected when you can’t make it to the office. This assists your concerns on demand with remote adjustments via video chat.
- Customizable Tinnitus Relief: Multiflex Tinnitus Technology enables superior flexibility in fine-tuning a relieving sound stimulus for each individual.
Starkey Edge AI
Starkey Edge AI hearing aids use artificial intelligence (AI) to improve sound quality and make hearing easier. It comes with a powerful smart chip designed to recognize different sounds and reduces background noise, so you can focus on what matters most. The Edge AI automatically adjusts to changing environments, making speech 30% clearer than previous models. Whether in a crowded restaurant or at home, Starkey Edge AI helps users hear voices more clearly regardless of the soundscape.
Unique Features:
- Built To Last: Waterproof up to 1 meter and resistant to sweat, these hearing aids are designed to handle daily activities with ease.
- Reliable Bluetooth Connection: Edge AI uses advanced Bluetooth technology for a stronger, more stable connection to smartphones and other devices. It also supports Auracast™, allowing users to connect to TVs and public sound systems effortlessly.
- Health & Safety Benefits: These hearing aids include balance exercises to support stability. They also have fall detection and alert features to keep users safe.
- Simple App Control: The My Starkey app makes it easy to adjust settings, control volume, stream calls, set reminders, and locate lost hearing aids. It works with both smartphones and Apple Watch for convenience.
Starkey CROS
CROS stands for Contralateral Routing of Signal, and it works by picking up sound from your weaker ear and sending it wirelessly to your better ear. If you have hearing loss in one ear and normal hearing in the other, the Starkey CROS system can help you hear sounds from both sides.
The Starkey CROS solution is sleek, comfortable, and uses advanced technology to improve speech understanding and reduce background noise. Whether you’re in a conversation or out and about, it helps you feel more connected and aware of your surroundings.
Starkey Genesis AI ITE
The Starkey Genesis AI ITE (In-the-Ear) hearing aid combines smart technology with a discreet, custom design made just for your ears. Built with artificial intelligence, it automatically adapts to different listening environments. Hear conversations more clearly, even in busy places. This ITE model fits comfortably inside your ear and offers features like Bluetooth streaming, health tracking, and rechargeable power. It’s a great option for those who want powerful hearing support without wearing a device behind the ear.
Unique Features:
- Waterproof: Starkey’s Pro8 HydraShield features eight protective layers specifically targeting ingress and corrosion – ensuring Genesis AI devices can withstand sweat, rain, dirt, drops, and dunks.
- Bluetooth Connectivity: The My Starkey app pairs with Genesis AI hearing aids to help you enjoy greater listening moments, improved well-being, and easier everyday living – all from the palm of your hand. Enjoy convenient features such as adjusting hearing aid settings, streaming calls, and even finding lost hearing aids.
- Remote Support: TeleHear is a remote telehealth solution that keeps you connected when you can’t make it to the office. This assists your concerns on demand with remote adjustments via video chat.
- Customizable Tinnitus Relief: Multiflex Tinnitus Technology enables superior flexibility in fine-tuning a relieving sound stimulus for each individual.
Starkey Evolv AI BTE
The Starkey Evolv AI BTE (Behind-the-Ear) hearing aid combines powerful sound performance with cutting-edge technology to help you hear clearly and confidently. Designed for all-day comfort and reliability, this device sits comfortably behind your ear and offers advanced features like noise reduction, speech enhancement, and Bluetooth streaming.
It comes with built-in artificial intelligence to easily adapt to your environment-whether you’re talking in a quiet room or listening in a noisy crowd. It also offers health tracking and rechargeable options for added convenience.
Unique Features:
- Bluetooth Connectivity: The Thrive Hearing Control app pairs with Evolv AI BTE hearing aids to help you enjoy greater listening moments, improved well-being, and easier everyday living – all from the palm of your hand. Enjoy convenient features such as adjusting hearing aid settings, streaming calls, and even finding lost hearing aids.
- Remote Support: TeleHear is a remote telehealth solution that keeps you connected when you can’t make it to the office. This assists your concerns on demand with remote adjustments via video chat.
- Customizable Tinnitus Relief: Multiflex Tinnitus Technology enables superior flexibility in fine-tuning a relieving sound stimulus for each individual.
Assistive Listening Devices & Technology by Starkey
- Mini Remote Microphone
- Remote Mic +
- Remote Control 2.0
- Table Microphone
- TV Streamer
Older Starkey Hearing Aid Models Supported By Austin Hearing Aid Center in Austin, TX
These hearing aid models may still be supported for hearing aid servicing and repair by Austin Hearing Aid Center in Austin, TX. Please contact us for more information.
- Starkey Picasso
- Starkey Livio
- Starkey Muse iQ
- Starkey Halo iQ
- Starkey Halo 2
- Starkey Halo
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What is an audiologist?
What types of tests and treatments do audiologists perform?
- Diagnostic hearing tests
- Annual hearing evaluations
- Hearing aid fittings, programming and consultations
- Earmold and earplug fittings and consultations
- Dizziness and balance testing and treatment
- Hearing aid repairs, service, and maintenance
- Pediatric hearing loss detection and treatment
- Hearing loss prevention and protection programs
- Aural rehabilitation/Hearing rehabilitation and auditory training
- Custom musicians earplugs and in-ear- monitors
- Tinnitus treatment programs for ringing and buzzing in the ears
- Sound therapy and counseling
- Cochlear implant candidacy evaluations and implant programming
How do I know if I have hearing loss?
- Perception that people are mumbling when speaking to you
- Constantly asking people to repeat themselves
- Playing the TV or radio louder than the volume level that others around you enjoy
- Missing the doorbell or the telephone
- Missing environmental sounds, such as birds chirping, your car turn signal and microwave beepings
- Hearing a ringing sound in your ears, especially when it is quiet
What is the most common cause of hearing loss?
Hearing loss can be caused by several factors including exposure to loud noises, aging, ear infections, head or ear trauma, medications, congenital or genetic factors, diseases, and a number of other causes.
The most common cause of hearing loss (acquired) is exposure to loud noise. Hearing can be protected by wearing suitable hearing protection like ear plugs or ear muffs.
How is hearing loss diagnosed?
Hearing loss is diagnosed through a hearing evaluation conducted by an audiologist. Through a hearing test or diagnostic audiologic evaluation, an audiologist will determine the type and degree of hearing loss. The sensitivity, acuity and accuracy of speech understanding will also be evaluated in a hearing test.
A hearing evaluation covers a thorough case history and a physical inspection of the eardrum and the ear canal. Additional tests may also be performed depending on the symptoms. If an audiologist assesses that the hearing loss may benefit from medical intervention, a patient will be referred to a physician.
What are the different degrees of hearing loss?
The results of a hearing test are plotted on a chart called an audiogram. Hearing level (HL) is measured in decibels (dB) and is presented in general categories as follows:
Normal hearing (0-25 dB HL)
Mild hearing loss (26-40 dB HL)
Moderate hearing loss (41-70dB HL)
Severe hearing loss (71-90 dB HL)
Profound hearing loss (greater than 90 dB HL)
What are the different types of hearing loss?
Hearing loss is categorized into three types, each caused by different factors and requires different levels of hearing aid technology.
Sensorineural hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss occurs when there is a problem with the auditory nerve or the inner ear, specifically damage to the nerve fibers or hair cells of the auditory system. This is the most common type of hearing loss in adults. The most common causes of sensorineural hearing loss are noise exposure and age-related changes. A disturbance in the circulation of the inner ear may also result in hearing loss. Fortunately, there are numerous options for patients with sensorineural hearing loss.
Conductive hearing loss
Conductive hearing loss is linked to problems in the middle or external ear. With conductive hearing loss, sound is not conducted efficiently through the ear canal, eardrum or middle ear bones, resulting in the reduction of hearing. This may be caused by earwax blockage or other obstruction in the ear canal, perforation in the eardrum, middle ear fluid, middle ear infection, or other disease of the middle or inner ear. If you are diagnosed with conductive hearing loss, you may benefit from hearing aids, medication, medical implants, or surgical options.
Mixed hearing loss
When there are problems in both the middle and inner ear, the diagnosis will be a mixed hearing impairment. Since mixed hearing loss links both conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, treatment options will depend on the nature of the impairment and the symptoms.
What are the signs of hearing loss in children?
Hearing loss can occur at any time in life from factors such as genetics, ear infections, head trauma or certain medications. If you suspect the following symptoms or behaviors in your child, you may need to consult with an audiologist:
-Failed newborn hearing screening
-Delays in speech and language acquisition (i.e no babbling)
-Frequent ear infections
-No startling reaction to loud sounds
-No response or turning to the source of loud sounds after six months of age
-Difficulty following verbal directions
-Short attention span
Any symptom of hearing loss in children should be addressed right away so as not to hamper or delay speech, language and cognitive development as a whole.
What style of hearing aid do I need?
There are many different types of hearing aids in the market today, ranging from style, technology, features and design.
Aside from considering the style of the device, you need to consider the features that would be most beneficial to you and applicable to your lifestyle. From waterproof options, directional microphones, telecoils, and Bluetooth technology, there will surely be something for everyone.
Hearing aids are also available in different styles and sizes, and thanks to the advancements and innovations in technology, hearing aids are getting smaller without compromising power.
When selecting a style of hearing aid, the following should be considered:
-Type/degree of the hearing loss
-Power requirements
-Manual dexterity and visual abilities
-Budget
-Aesthetics
-Anatomical and medical considerations
-Lifestyle requirements
What are assistive listening devices (ALDs)?
People with any type and degree of hearing loss may benefit from an assistive listening device. Since the microphone of a standard hearing aid is either worn on or behind the ear, the ability to enhance the speaker-to-background-noise ratio may become limited. This is where ALDs enter the picture, as they are designed to increase the loudness of a desired sound, such as a public speaker, TV, or radio, without necessarily increasing the background noise.
ALDs include TV listening systems, alarm clocks, telephone amplifying devices, and auditorium-type assistive listening systems. Newer ALDs are small, wireless and compatible with digital hearing aids.
What is tinnitus?
Tinnitus, often referred to as ringing in the ears, is a common disorder affecting more than 50 million people in the United States. Some people experience tinnitus as a roaring, hissing, whistling, buzzing, or clicking sound in the ear.
Technically, tinnitus is not the actual disease, but a symptom of another underlying medical condition of the ear or affected by another influencing health factor. Tinnitus can be constant or intermittent, with single or multiple tones. The perceived tinnitus volume can range from extremely loud to very soft.
American Tinnitus Association: https://www.ata.org/
What causes tinnitus?
The exact cause of tinnitus is not known. However, there are a wide variety of factors linked to tinnitus that include:
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- Age-related hearing loss
- Wax build-up in the ear canal
- Certain medications
- Ear or sinus infections
- Ear diseases and disorders
- Jaw misalignment
- Cardiovascular disease
- Certain types of tumors in the neck or head area
- Thyroid disorders
- Head and neck trauma
How is tinnitus treated?
Treatment will vary based on the severity and underlying condition of the tinnitus. There are several treatments to manage the perception of unwanted noise which include:
- Hearing aids with tinnitus-masking features
- Tinnitus retraining therapy
- Sound therapy
- Avoidance of certain medications
- Behavioral therapy
What is the difference between an audiologist and a hearing instrument specialist (HIS)?
There are various types of hearing healthcare professionals in the industry, varying in terms of education and training.
A hearing instrument specialist and an audiologist are two of the most in-demand professionals when it comes to seeking treatment or advice for hearing loss. To better understand and select which professional is best for your case, here’s the difference between the two –
Audiologist
An audiologist has a degree in audiology and is trained to diagnose, treat, and monitor disorders of the hearing and balance system. Audiologists are well-versed and trained in handling amplification devices, cochlear implants, acoustics, electrophysiology, auditory rehabilitation and psychophysics.
At a minimum, Doctors of Audiology complete an undergraduate and doctoral level degree in audiology. They also undergo a supervised externship prior to state licensure and national certification. Continuing education requirements must be completed so audiologists can maintain state licensure.
For people with hearing loss, balance problems and auditory issues, an audiologist is the most qualified professional that can provide proper diagnosis and treatment.
Hearing instrument specialist (HIS)
A hearing instrument specialist is licensed to conduct audiometric testing to fit and sell hearing aids. To get a license, a hearing instrument specialist needs to take a certification program in hearing aids, complete training hours in the relevant field and pass an exam.
Hearing instrument specialists can fit and repair hearing aids. However, they cannot diagnose or treat hearing loss.
For more questions about hearing loss and other related services, our team at the Austin Hearing Aid Center will be happy to assist you. Call us today at (512-444-8684).