With a number of technological advances in the medical industry, hearing aids have been developed over the years by a number of companies. The come in different shapes, sizes, and auditory capacity. Hearing aids are a very essential for both, people who are suffering from a mild hearing discomfort to severe hearing loss.

Here are the popular hearing aid manufacturing companies and some of their top selling hearing aids:

ReSound: A Denmark based company which was started in the year 1943, created a new sound processing system which features a wide dynamic range compression. This company is also one of the many companies which introduced the open fit hearing device, which is still a crowd favorite.

Oticon: Oticon is another Denmark based company, but a popular name amongst the giants in the hearing aid industry. The company was actually founded by a person whose wife herself had a hearing impairment. Oticon created the world’s first digital hearing instrument known as the Digifocus and the company has always strived to create hearing aid devices to provide a more natural hearing experience.

Starkey: Starkey happens to be the one and only American based, owned and operated from Minnesota. The Starkey Hearing Foundation has given away over one million hearing aid sets to people all over the world. The company also happens to be one of the first to create the in-ear canal hearing aid, which falls under the category of invisible hearing aids.

Phonak: Phonak is a Zurich based company which develops hearing solutions for children. The company aims to aid and help people with hearing loss or impairment to overcome all the anxiety, depression, and other problems that are a result of hearing impairment. Phonak has been instrumental in developing rechargeable hearing aids with lithium ion battery packs.

Signia: Formerly Siemens, but introduced as part of a Sivantos brand in 2016, Signia happens to be the first company to release the first digital hearing aid with two microphones, featuring the directional microphones, wireless hearing aids, and more. The company also launched a waterproof hearing aid.

There are a number of other popular hearing aid manufacturing companies, which design hearing aids.