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Tinnitus Sound Generator (TSG) module
Intended use for the TSG module
Your ReSound hearing instrument includes the Tinnitus Sound Generator function, a tool for generating
sounds to be used in tinnitus management programmes to relieve suffering from tinnitus.
The Tinnitus Sound Generator can generate sounds adjusted to the specific therapeutic needs and your
personal preference as determined by your doctor, audiologist, or hearing healthcare professional. De-
pending on the selected hearing instrument programme and the environment you are in, you will sometimes
hear the therapeutic sound resembling a continuous or fluctuating humming.
User instructions for the TSG module
Description of the device
The Tinnitus Sound Generator (TSG) Module is a software tool that generates sounds to be used in tinnitus
management programmes to relieve suffering from tinnitus.
Explanation of how the device functions
The TSG module is a frequency and amplitude shaped white-noise generator. Noise signal level and fre-
quency characteristics can be adjusted to the specific therapeutic needs as determined by your doctor,
audiologist or hearing healthcare professional.
Your doctor, audiologist or hearing healthcare professional can modulate the generated noise with the
purpose of making it more pleasant. The noise can then resemble, for example, crashing waves on a shore.
Modulation level and speed can also be configured to your likes and needs. An additional feature can be
enabled by your hearing healthcare professional that allows you to select predefined sounds that simulate
sounds from nature, such as breaking waves or running water.
If you have two wireless hearing aids that support ear-to-ear synchronisation this functionality can be ena-
bled by your hearing healthcare professional. This will cause the Tinnitus Sound Generator to synchronise
the sound in both hearing aids.
If your tinnitus troubles you only in quiet environments, your doctor, audiologist or hearing healthcare pro-
fessional can set the TSG Module so that it becomes audible exclusively in such surroundings. The overall
sound level can be adjusted via an optional volume control. Your doctor, audiologist or hearing healthcare
professional will review with you the need for having such a control.
For hearing aids where ear to ear synchronisation is enabled your hearing healthcare professional can also
enable environmental monitoring synchronisation so that the TSG noise level is automatically adjusted si-
multaneously in both hearing aids dependent on the background sound level. Additionally if the hearing aid
has a volume control then the background noise level monitored by the hearing aid and the volume control
can be used simultaneously to adjust the generated noise level in both hearing aids.
TSG volume control
The sound generator is set to a specific loudness level by the hearing healthcare professional. When switch-
ing the sound generator on, the volume will have this optimal setting. Therefore, it might not be necessary
to control the volume (loudness) manually. However, the volume control provides the ability to adjust the
volume, or amount of stimulus, to the liking of the user.
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