Unleash the Power of Starkey Livio Edge Ai Hearing Aids

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Starkey Hearing Technologies
3. Livio Edge Ai Hearing Aids
4. Technology Levels
5. Form Factors
6. Custom Livio Edge Ai
7. Charging and Dehydration
8. Features of Livio Edge Ai
9. Streaming from Smart Devices
10. Assistive Listening Devices
11. Thrive App
12. Language Translation
13. Hearing Care Anywhere
14. Thrive Care
15. Edge Mode
16. Concerns for Non-Tech Savvy Individuals
17. Conclusion

Starkey Livio Edge Ai Hearing Aids Review

Are You looking for a hearing aid that is packed with features and can help you hear better in complex listening situations? Look no further than the Starkey Livio Edge Ai hearing aids. In this review, we will cover everything you need to know about these innovative hearing aids, from their technology levels to their form factors and features.

Introduction

The Starkey Livio Edge Ai hearing aids are the latest innovation from Starkey Hearing Technologies, one of the most innovative hearing aid manufacturers out there. These hearing aids are designed to blur the lines between hearing aids and biometric tracking devices, with features that can help you hear better and track your physical activity, brain score, and heart rate.

Starkey Hearing Technologies

Starkey Hearing Technologies has been at the forefront of hearing aid innovation for years. In 2014, they were one of the companies that pioneered the made for iPhone hearing aids, and in 2018, they were one of the first hearing aid manufacturers to use artificial intelligence inside of their hearing aids with the Starkey Livio Ai. With the Livio Edge Ai, they have continued to push the envelope by developing technology that blurs the lines even more between hearing aids and biometric tracking devices.

Livio Edge Ai Hearing Aids

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids have all the same great features that you could find in the Livio Ai's that came before, with a few key feature additions that make it even better than its predecessor. As a hearing aid, the Livio Edge Ai comes in five different technology levels. The most advanced here is the i2400, followed by the i2000, the i1600, the i1200, and the i1000. In general, the lower in technology that you go, results in fewer features and reduced customizability, which can limit your hearing care provider's ability to optimize the performance of these devices.

Technology Levels

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids come in five different technology levels. The most advanced here is the i2400, followed by the i2000, the i1600, the i1200, and the i1000. In general, the lower in technology that you go, results in fewer features and reduced customizability, which can limit your hearing care provider's ability to optimize the performance of these devices.

Form Factors

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids come in a variety of form factors, including a receiver-in-canal rechargeable hearing aid, a battery version of this, a disposable battery version of this, a size 13 BTE, and a behind-the-ear device that uses a tube and an ear mold. The most exciting part about this is you can now get a rechargeable custom hearing aid, so no more batteries with these costume in the ear devices, and you still get all the same great features that you can get with the receiver and canal and the BTE hearing aids.

Custom Livio Edge Ai

The custom Livio Edge Ai is the most significant innovation that we have seen in the hearing aid world since 2018 when we saw the release of technology that could connect directly with an android device. The Livio Edge Ai can come in a variety of different colors, so you don't have to get black. You can get any color that you want that matches your skin tone. Starkey is well known for their custom products, and you can actually have 3D ear scans taken of your ears inside of your hearing care provider's clinic, and those scans can be sent off to Starkey, which in my opinion makes for an even better custom fit.

Charging and Dehydration

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids come with a charging case that has a magnetic aspect to it. You do have metal contacts on the bottom, so it's not technically inductive charging, but it's very easy just to pop these hearing aids in. They go into exactly the right spot, so if you have bad finger dexterity, it won't really matter. You can store charges inside of the case, so you don't have to have it plugged in, and they also have a space here that you can put a desiccant in. Dehydration is important for hearing aids, especially if you live in a humid climate or you sweat a lot. Moisture is the enemy of electronics, and you want to make sure that you get all that moisture pulled out at nighttime when you're charging your devices.

Features of Livio Edge Ai

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids have a ton of features, including streaming from your smart device, assistive listening devices, and the Thrive app. The Thrive app is so full-featured that I definitely need to make an entire video review of this app, but in general, you can do things like increase and decrease volume, make frequency adjustments, track your body score, track your brain score, and track your heart rate. You can also activate different assistive listening devices and adjust streaming volume and hearing aid microphone volume separately.

Streaming from Smart Devices

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids allow you to stream audio directly from your smart device, including phone calls, music, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more. You can now stream directly from your android phone, as long as you have a newer android phone that has the Android 10 operating system and Bluetooth version five. Setting up this streaming for android is a little bit on the tricky side, but you can eventually get it to work.

Assistive Listening Devices

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids also come with a variety of assistive listening devices, including remote microphones, a table microphone, a remote control, and a TV Streamer. These devices can improve your performance even more, especially in noisy situations. For those of you out there who want a telecoil inside of your hearing aids, they have that too.

Thrive App

The Thrive app is a full-featured app that allows you to do things like increase and decrease volume, make frequency adjustments, track your body score, track your brain score, and track your heart rate. You can also activate different assistive listening devices and adjust streaming volume and hearing aid microphone volume separately. The app also includes a Find My Hearing Aid function, a hearing aid Self Check, and the ability to do language translation, hearing care anywhere, and thrive care inside of the app as well.

Language Translation

The language translation feature is obviously pretty cool because it allows you to communicate with someone else who does not speak the language that you do. You can ask the app to translate for you, and it will give you a response in return. There is a little bit of a delay, and you have to tap the app to say something, but it's a pretty cool feature.

Hearing Care Anywhere

The Hearing Care Anywhere feature is the remote programming capability that these devices have with your hearing care professional. If you are noticing some issues with your programming, you can let your hearing care professional know, and they can make changes to your programming in the software in their office. Starkey is definitely at the bottom of the list in comparison to other manufacturers here, as they can only do asynchronous programming changes.

Thrive Care

The Thrive Care feature allows a caretaker or family member to be tapped directly into the data of the hearing aid. You can track things like physical activity, social engagement, and get notifications for falls. The motion sensors inside of the Starkey Livio Edge Ai hearing aids can detect if someone has actually fallen and send a notification to a caretaker or a family member for them to acknowledge and to contact help if they need to.

Edge Mode

The most talked-about new feature of the Livio Edge Ai hearing aids is the feature that really gives it its name, which is edge mode. Edge Artificial Intelligence is actually pretty cool, and it allows you to perform artificial intelligence directly on board the hardware, so you don't have to be connected to a smart device in order to have the artificial intelligence work. Edge mode uses this artificial intelligence inside of the hearing aids in order to optimize your ability to hear in a complex listening situation.

Concerns for Non-Tech Savvy Individuals

The Livio Edge Ai hearing aids are great for individuals who are tech-savvy, but they may be complicated for those who are not. If you are not a very tech-savvy individual, these hearing aids may be difficult for you to figure out all these different features, and your hearing care professional will have a lot of work cut out for them to try to train you on all the different things that you can do with these hearing aids.

Conclusion

The Starkey Livio Edge Ai hearing aids are amazing pieces of technology that can help you hear better and track your physical activity, brain score, and heart rate. However, it does not matter how awesome your hearing aids are unless your hearing care professional can get the most out of your devices. Make sure that they follow best practices, including Real Ear Measurement, and you will be able to enjoy all the benefits that these hearing aids have to offer.