Starkey Livio AI
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What we love about Livio AI
Livio AI is much more than a hearing aid. It’s a step counter, virtual assistant, fall detector, language translator, and more. Livio AI hearing aids provide the most comprehensive suite of unique features on the market.
Lithium-ion battery technology ensures you can comfortably enjoy a full day of hearing, including streaming from your favorite devices. Simply set your hearing aids in their charger at night, and you'll wake up to fully-powered devices in the morning.
Connects directly to your iOS®, and select Android™ devices so you can stream audio in excellent quality directly to your hearing aids.
Included with your purchase
Don’t settle for less- or “remote support.” To get the best performance out of your hearing aids you need local care. It’s why all the major manufacturers recommend it. Your purchase includes 1 year of unlimited appointments with your local ZipHearing provider. After your first year of ownership, additional appointments with your local ZipHearing provider are $50 each.
Wear your hearing aids for 45 days. If they don’t change your life, simply bring them back to your local ZipHearing provider and we’ll issue a 100% refund. No restocking fees. No fine print.
Your purchase includes a manufacturer’s 3 year warranty covering repairs, and loss and damage. If a hearing aid is lost or damaged beyond repair during the warranty period, your ZipHearing provider can file what is called a “Loss and Damage Claim” for you, and a new device will be issued, subject to a deductible payable to your hearing provider of $350/aid.
Cleaning and maintenance supplies like domes and wax filters are included with your order, and your hearing provider will show you how to use them. If your hearing aids take disposable batteries, we’ll include a year's supply. If your hearing aids are rechargeable, we’ll include a charger.
We offer 12 month interest-free financing through CareCredit. We also offer payment plans of up to 60 months, though interest does apply. Setting up your financing takes just minutes, and a ZipHearing team member will help you through the process.
How Livio AI fits

Reimagining what a hearing aid can do
Livio AI was most well-known for being named to Time's List of 100 Best Inventions, as the world's first Healthable™ hearing aid, utilizing integrated sensors and artificial intelligence.
Although this model is no longer in production, if you own a pair of Livio AI and have lost a single unit and need a replacement, we recommend contacting Starkey or your hearing provider directly, as there may be some remaining stock available for these situations.
Livio AI at a glance
Sales popularity of Livio AI vs. other Starkey models
Relative sales popularity of Starkey models over time, based on our internal sales data. Updated weekly. Click on a model name to remove/bring back it from the chart comparsion
Sales stats for Livio AI
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Starkey's product naming convention
Livio AI tech levels our customers buy
Based on internal sales data. Updated daily.
Tech level | % of sales |
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Premium | 54.4% |
Advanced | 20.2% |
Mid | 23.7% |
Low | 1.8% |
Livio AI models
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Livio AI technology levels comparison chart
This is a heavily abbreviated chart designed to focus only on the key differences between models. Features that exist across all technology are not listed below unless they`re necessary to provide context for other features listed. Swipe right to see more features, tap on a feature to read its description.
Model | 1200 | 1600 | 2000 | 2400 |
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Sales popularity | 1.8% | 23.7% | 20.2% | 54.4% |
Tech level | Low | Mid | Advanced | Premium |
Channels | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 |
Speech in Noise Reduction | 6 dB | 6 dB | 8 dB | 20 dB |
Wind Noise Reduction | 7 dB | 7 dB | 15 dB | 30 dB |
E2E Music Adaptation | ||||
E2E Wind Noise Management | ||||
Spatial speech enhancement | ||||
E2E Phone Streaming | ||||
Thrive Assistant | ||||
Find My Phone | ||||
Reminders | ||||
E2E Directionality | ||||
Transcribe | ||||
Translate | ||||
IntelliVoice | ||||
Edge Mode | ||||
Fall Alert |
*some features may not apply to all models on this page
For a more detailed comparison, see Starkey`s feature matrix
Reviews

The Livio AI’s have a multitude of new features
Hi, my names is Roger. As you can see, I have some age on me. I’m kind of an old guy. And if you look real close, you can see my hearing aids. Well maybe you can’t see them, because they are small and they blend in with my glasses and my hair color, they fit right in your ear socket, they’re comfortable to wear. I have significant hearing loss. Too many years working with equipment, too many years not wearing hearing protection and now I’m paying the price for it. So I got tired of saying to my wife, “what?”, it’s not that I didn’t hear her say something, I just couldn’t understand what she said. It was frustrating for her, it was frustrating for me. So I chose my first pair of hearing aids about 4 years ago, they were Starkey Halo 2s, nice little hearing aids, Bluetooth, programmable, and they were battery powered. So the downside for that is you had to change batteries maybe like once a week, especially if you’re doing lots of streaming, podcasts, or talking on the phone. What I liked about those hearing aids, and I still like about them, is that you can listen to podcasts or talk on the phone hands free, that was a big advantage. I chose, when those, when the microphones, you should know, that hearing aids aren’t forever, and my Starkey Halo 2s, the microphones finally quit working on them, and rather than having them refurbished, I wanted to get a new technology. Because they were battery powered that means you had to put a battery in them, and the little battery case was not completely water tight and if you’re like me out working in the yard in a humid environment like northern Virginia is, you sweat a lot, sweat gets in your ears, and eventually it degrades your hearing aid. I would recommend any of you who say “what?” too many times, who have trouble hearing in crowded environments to look at quality of life and get yourself a set of hearing aids. I chose the Starkey Livio AI. Why did I choose those? Because they have a multitude of new features that other hearing aids don’t have. Okay yeah they amplify sound, you have various settings that you can choose for different environments, if you’re listening to the TV you can set them one way, if you want normal you can set them one way, if you want a crowd you can set them, you can reduce background noise so that background noise around you is not interfering with your hearing. In addition, the Livio AIs also have a multitude of new features. They keep track of your steps for you, they keep track of your brain function, because unbeknownst to us, our brain is our major hearing source through our ears, and so we have to keep our brain sharp, and the Starkey Livios track the different types of environments that you’re in that are stimulating your brain. Because at our age we need to have our brain stimulated and the more we can do that the better off we are. I would encourage you to get the rechargeables because they’re more water tight, and being more water tight, you don’t have to change the batteries, #1, and #2, they’re probably going to last a little longer because the sweats not getting into your hearing aid and degrading it. So in addition to the environmental things that your hearing aid keeps track of, your steps, they also have a fall feature, which, if you fall and your head hits an object, maybe you get knocked out, maybe you slip on the ice, whatever, your hearing aids will notify chosen people, that you’ve indicated should get an alert, so it’s called a fall alert. So you know you get up in age, your balance isn’t as good, falls are part of our future. You fall, you get knocked out, your hearing aid will tell the person, and the person will also know where you are because of the GPS device that’s in them. So that’s another safety feature that’s really cool about the Starkey Livios. So I would recommend if you’re getting hearing aids, buy the most expensive ones that you can, within your budget, because they have a lot of features that make your life way more enjoyable. So, I hope this was a good advertisement for hearing aids because I have significant hearing loss and it’s all part of quality of life.

I don’t think you can go wrong
My name is Franklin and after playing guitar professionally for a number of years, standing in front of loud amplifiers, damaging my hearing, and then getting interested in riding loud motorcycles, sport bikes, I realized that my hearing had deteriorated quite a bit. About 5 years ago I was given a hearing test and told that I had 8% hearing in my left ear, and 20% hearing in my right ear, so basically I was considered legally deaf. So I was recommended to get hearing aids and I did, I got a pair of Rexton hearing aids, had them for 4 years, they worked reasonably well during that time, but they started to wear out and deteriorate and would need some expensive repairs, so I researched getting new hearing aids, and I came upon Starkey Livio AI 1600, which I show here in my hand. These are my relatively new, few months old, Starkey Livio AI 1600 hearing aids, nice champagne color, they’re very comfortable, I chose them after looking at the research on them, and reviews, because of their clarity, and also because they had great noise suppression. One of the things I struggle with is background noise, trying to hear what I need to hear, and my old hearing aids, the Rextons, did not do a good job with noise suppression and these were particularly good at that. So what I like about them is it does cancel out a lot of the background noise, they’re very comfortable to wear, the clarity is much brighter, music that I listen to with my bad ears sound amazingly great with these Starkeys, I like them a lot, I would certainly recommend them. The other thing that I like is they have several adjustments on them for different levels of sound, also different levels of noise suppression, and they’re bluetooth so they go right into my ears when I get a phone call, it’s great, I can be walking outside, the phone rings, it rings right in my ears, I answer my cell phone, and the person is talking right into my ears so I can always hear the call, that wasn’t the case with the Rextons that weren’t Bluetooth, and the clarity again is great with the Livios and that Bluetooth feature. As far as things that I do not like about it, from time to time I’ll get a message, there’s a mans voice that speaks and it says “Resolving the problem, problem resolved”, just things like that that come out of nowhere. I don’t really like that feature, it’s not terrible, but I don’t really like that, the other thing is, I’m waiting for a part for the them to adjust better to my ears, a longer wire, they came with shorter wires, which they offer, but I haven’t been able to get it yet, it’s not necessarily Livio’s fault, but I would like to have them fit better. The other thing I may not like about it quite as much as the Rextons for example is the battery life. Seems to be about 4 days, 5 if I’m lucky but no longer than that, and in the past with the other hearing aids it was a good 7 days, sometimes I got 8, but after 4 days, maybe 5, I get the message in their “battery” and it’s telling me that the battery is weak. So I’m changing batteries more often, because of convenience for me, and the different activities I do, I have battery operated, versus the rechargeable, that of course wouldn’t be an issue with the rechargeable. I would definitely recommend these to a friend, the Starkeys, I think the quality is very good, the sound is excellent, the noise suppression is excellent, so someone searching for good quality hearing aids and in fact, the Starkeys with all the clarity and suppression and Bluetooth were actually less than the Rextons 4 years ago, so I would tell you that there definitely is an improvement in the technology and yet they weren’t as expensive. And the number one piece of advice that I would give to someone who is considering purchasing hearing aids is do your research, look at the different brands, and talk to someone that has used them. I did talk to my local hearing professional and she connected me with someone who actually has used them, a Starkey customer who has had them over a year and has had a great experience and you can get to hear that first hand. So, do your research, see if you can talk to somebody who owns them, but I don’t think you can go wrong in my opinion, with the Starkey Livio AI 1600 hearing aids. Thank you
Written Reviews
Very pleased
On the negative side, I find it more difficult to insert them in my ears than my old pair of behind the ear aids. It may be that the tube is shorter, but my audiologist said that if he lengthened the tubes, the hearing aid microphone would be behind my ear, rather than on top of it. I also thing the fear lock tube is too short, so I fear losing the aids.
I do wish I could compare the model I purchased with the next higher priced model. If it were better, I would certainly spend the extra money. Have you considered allowing a customer pay only for the higher priced model, but testing two models in the audiologist's office to decide which to buy? Is there some way to do that?
Hear the birds chirp again
Sound good, fit good
Probably not for me
Seems to be fine
Sound quality is amazing
It is very comfortable, so much so I forget that I'm even wearing the device, it is extremely durable and reliable, I like that I can if necessary, I can adjust the volume from my i phone.
The Pros: undetectable, light weight, quality product, fast charging...
The CONS: I have none at this time...
Metallic/processed sound
Best in 30 years
Impressive
So far so good
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If you have second generation Amazon Fire TV Cube, you can stream audio directly from the TV to Livio AI hearing aids. If not, you'll need Starkey's TV Streamer accessory to stream audio.
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