TOMATIS® Infinite
User Guide

Thank you for your confidence in us. We hope that the Tomatis® Infinite headphones will accompany many successes throughout your Tomatis® journey. By choosing the Tomatis® Method, you have opted for a natural, effective, and safe stimulation.

We advise you to read this brochure carefully. You will find it together with an educational booklet and video tutorials, on infinite.tomatis.com

An educational booklet and user guide

EDUCATIONAL BOOKLET

WHY USE TOMATIS® INFINITE

Tomatis® Infinite is your personal headphones of the Tomatis® Method. You can use them now and throughout your Tomatis® journey.

Tomatis® Infinite headphones were created for children and adults. It is an original technological device that is equipped with a music listening function and an audio-vocal training function for use before, during, or after your Tomatis® journey. Simply stated, you can start your listening sessions right away thanks to the “warm-up” preparatory program!

In order to individualize your listening experience and make it unique, your Professional will connect your Tomatis® Infinite headphones to another piece of equipment called TalksUp®. It is also this Professional that will choose the consolidation program that best fits you.

With Tomatis® Infinite: get the most out of your Tomatis® Method experience!
Need to find a trained Tomatis® Professional? Go to tomatis.com.

ALFRED TOMATIS
Sixty years ago, the ENT Alfred Tomatis developed a method to restore listening skills.

This method, to which Tomatis devoted his life, consists of specific listening sessions. Your own voice or music is modified in real-time to naturally train your brain to enhance your motor, emotional, and cognitive abilities.

Considered a forerunner to modern neuroscience, Alfred Tomatis is cited as a reference by many researchers and scientists. His method is now used all over the world.

THE MUSIC LISTENING FUNCTION

THE PREPARATORY PROGRAM 30min/day for 7 days

When you activate the music listening function, you will have access to several music programs.

The preparatory program also called the “warm-up” program, allows you to immediately start your daily music-listening sessions. This is a universal program that works for everyone. It gradually prepares your ear before starting the training personalized by your Tomatis® Professional.
Daily sessions last 30 minutes. It is important to do them on an ongoing basis.
This program lasts 7 days and can be spread over a period of 9 days maximum.

THE CONSOLIDATION PROGRAMS 30min/day for 15 days

The music listening function contains two consolidated programs called “follow-up” programs. These programs focus on prolonging and strengthening the stimulation after your personalized Tomatis® training.

1 «Follow-up» program: Promotes well-being and relaxation

2 «Follow-up» program: Promotes brain stimulation and energy

Your Tomatis® Professional will choose which consolidation program is right for you and the timeframe for completion.
Daily sessions last 30 minutes. Again, it is important to do them consistently, without exceeding 30 minutes per day.
These 15-day listening programs can be spread over a 21-day period (5 days a week for 3 weeks).

THE AUDIO-VOCAL TRAINING FUNCTION

The audio-vocal training aims to change the way our brain perceives our own voice in order to better communicate and to better learn. Through this training our voice is instantly enriched, it becomes clearer and more dynamic.
You can perform audio-vocal training for at least 5-10 minutes per day (5 minutes for children, 10 minutes for adults, or any other duration indicated by your Professional). This training is complementary to the music listening programs. You can listen to one of the standard music programs provided with your Tomatis® Infinite headphones and perform audio-vocal training at different times of the day.
Even after your personalized Tomatis® training is completed, enjoy using the audio-vocal function regularly to enhance the full experience.

USE OF THE HEADPHONES ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR PERSONALIZED TRAINING

Your Tomatis® training is entirely made and personalized by a Professional and can vary greatly depending on your goals and profile. This personalized training is organized into several individualized “sessions” spaced out by breaks. Your Professional provides you with TalksUp® equipment that can be connected to your Tomatis® Infinite headphones in order to complete your individualized listening sessions. Each listening session generally lasts 14 days but this duration can change significantly according to your listening profile.
The recommendations for use below are general and are provided for information only. In all cases, use the instructions provided by your Tomatis® Professional. The Professional will adapt them to your own individualized profile.

You can follow the 7-day “warm-up” preparatory
program before starting your personalized listening training.| During the breaks between Tomatis® individualized listening sessions, your Professional may recommend that you continue to stimulate yourself in order to maintain the effect obtained from your listening session. This will consist of using one of the two 15-day «follow-up» consolidation programs. He/She may also ask you to use the audio-vocal training function.| After a full individualized Tomatis® training, please enjoy listening periodically to one of the music listening programs and using the audiovocal function. Your Tomatis® Professional can guide you in this process.

SUGGESTIONS AND BEST PRACTICES

BEFORE YOUR LISTENING SESSIONS

• Make sure that the Tomatis® Infinite headphones fit snuggly against your skull.
  For children, you can use a headband to make sure that the headphones are snug.

• Be sure that your headphones are fitted correctly (R= right headphone speaker goes over the right ear; L= left headphone speaker goes over the left ear).

• Adjust the volume to a comfortable level.

• Avoid beginning your sessions at bedtime.

DURING YOUR LISTENING SESSIONS

• Avoid stressful activities and relax.
• Feel free to move, walk or dance.
• Feel free to be creative: Draw, paint, or do any other arts and crafts activities.
• Avoid chewing gum, snacking, using screens, or traveling during sessions.

DURING THE AUDIO-VOCAL TRAINING
It is highly recommended to read aloud because your voice stimulates your brain. If this is not possible, choose an activity that makes you feel like communicating.
Examples: Talking, humming, or singing.

SUGGESTIONS FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS

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Introduce the headphones and the music to the child| What to do during daily sessions with a child
Bone conduction is an intriguing concept that is totally natural!
Ask your child to cover his/her ears and speak normally. The voice travels mainly through the bones of the skull so the child will hear the voice perfectly clear.
Explain to your child that our bones can be used to transmit sound to our brain.
Sound contrasts and filters can also be surprised when you first hear them.
Tell the child it’s just like when we snap our fingers to get someone’s attention – the sound contrasts can be surprising at first.| Listening sessions are an excellent opportunity to share a moment with the child.
Try to schedule activities your child will enjoy such as painting, drawing, building blocks, or Lego® construction.
Some children may like this opportunity to have some “alone time” depending on the personality of the child.
During audio vocal training, if reading aloud is not possible, opt for activities that promote verbal communication (role-playing, babbling, singing, vocalizing, repeating).

POSTURE DURING THE AUDIO-VOCAL TRAINING

Your listening skills and voice are affected by your posture. Note that the timbre (sound) and rhythm of your voice are impacted by the way your body is positioned. Below are
some suggestions to optimize your reading.

FOR ADULTS

Head: your head should rest comfortably above your spine. Like you are suspended from a string!
Lips: Slightly push your lips forward and avoid straining the back of your neck. Like you are touching your lips to a microphone.
Stomach: breathe gently while using your diaphragm to allow your stomach to move in and out slowly. Like the waves of the sea!
Back: sit straight without over rounding or pressing too firmly into the chair with the lower back.
Feet: place feet flat on the ground and spaced apart from the same width as your hips. Like a tree rooted in the ground!

FOR CHILDREN

Children can imagine that they’re a tree. Their feet are the roots reaching into the ground, their back is the straightened trunk, and their head is the foliage. Mime the rain coming down to water the tree and watch them grow, grow, grow!

WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE

The Tomatis® Method is a natural, non-invasive sensory stimulation approach that relies on many acoustic parameters. In the Tomatis® Infinite headphones, the program settings are universal. Using TalksUp®, the Tomatis® Professional can adjust these settings to offer you a totally individualized program. This allows you to deeply experience the full potential of the Tomatis® Method.
The musical component of the Tomatis® Method promotes the transmission of high-pitched sounds that are particularly effective in stimulating the brain. This intense stimulation can result in temporary fatigue, or conversely—a boost of energy.
During your listening experience, one can be surprised and sometimes a bit overwhelmed by this new sensory info that our brain must now learn to process. This listening experience can sometimes result in excessively increasing our sensitivity to our own world. It is a normal process of reorganization.

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The Music| Sound Contrasts (Electronic Gating®)| The Transmission of Sound
The music chosen for the listening sessions is mostly classical music. This music is dynamic and rich with
high-pitched sounds, thus perfectly suited to the stimulation of the brain.| The music changes suddenly in its tone, timbre, and intensity during the listening sessions. The brain responds by developing an ability to detect these
changes which are very important for improving attention.| The Infinite headphones are specifically designed to transmit sounds to the ears (air conduction) and to the skull (bone conduction). In the headphones, the bone conduction is very subtle and almost unnoticeable, but very powerful.

FIND YOUR PROFESSIONAL

Once you are in possession of your Tomatis® Infinite headphones, it is time to embark on your personal listening journey with a Tomatis® Professional. He/She will provide you with a TalksUp® device that you will connect to your Infinite headphones. The TalksUp® device will contain your own individualized program especially made for you.
Each Professional will use the testing approach appropriate to his/her background. The two main Tomatis® assessments used are the Tomatis® Listening Test and the psycho-pedagogical questionnaire (TED).

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Tomatis® Listening Test| Psycho pedagogical questionnaire (TED)
The listening test unravels the way in which you listen and communicate with other people. It is extremely simple to do the test. All you have to do is respond manually or orally through acoustic stimuli perceived through headphones dedicated to the listening assessment. Each ear is tested in turn. Together, these results create your listening profile that follows a specific interpretation given by the Professional.| It consists of a series of psycho- pedagogical questions which caregivers must answer in relation to the child. The questionnaire will take approximately 20 minutes to complete and allows your Professional to target difficulties, and evaluate progress achieved after your individualized Tomatis® training.

To find a Tomatis® Professional, please visit our website at tomatis.com
These evaluation tools cannot be a means of making a diagnosis. They cannot be considered either as a medical treatment or as accessories to medical treatment.
Download your Educational booklet and User guide in several languages on infinite.tomatis.com

USER GUIDE

Overview
Tomatis® Infinite is your personal headphones of the Tomatis® Method. It is an original technological device that stimulates the brain in two ways:

• The sound is processed through a dynamic filter system. You thus perceive the music or the sound of your voice modified with sound contrast effects.
• Sound is transmitted to you through the speakers and through bone conduction in the arch of the headphones. It is therefore important that the headphones are in good contact with the top of the head.

Immediately begin your Tomatis® journey by using the Tomatis® Infinite headphones with the preparatory music listening program.
You can also use the audio-vocal training function.
To follow an individualized training and take full advantage of the Tomatis® Method, contact a Tomatis® Professional now on tomatis.com

The two functions of the headphones

Music listening function: listen to musical programs
Choice of the program: You can start with the «warm-up» preparatory program. It gradually prepares your ear before starting the training personalized by your Tomatis® Professional. At the end of the Tomatis® training, you can choose one of the two consolidation programs:

1 Follow-up program: Promotes relaxation #2 Follow-up program: Promotes

energy

Duration: Do not exceed the 30-minute timeframe set for each session.
Note: The daily listening sessions must be performed without any interruptions.

• The preparatory «warm-up» program lasts 7 days and can be spread over a period of 9 days.
• The 15-day «follow-up» consolidation programs can be spread over a 21-day period (5 days a week for 3 weeks). Always follow the recommendations of your Tomatis® Professional.

Audio-vocal training function: train your own voice
Use: You can use the audio-vocal training function to strengthen language, communication, and learning.
Duration: It is recommended to use it for a few minutes a day and for several days: 5 minutes for children, 10 minutes for adults, or any other duration indicated by your Tomatis® Professional. You can read, sing or just talk.

GETTING STARTED

The Tomatis® Infinite headphones have been specially designed to be used with the TalksUp® professional equipment. The Tomatis® Infinite headphones have two functions they are activated and managed autonomously and independently. The music listening function turns on and is set on the right speaker while the audio-vocal training function turns on and is set on the left speaker.

Quick start of a music listening program (right speaker)

Begin with the music listening function

1. Make sure that the TF mode is turned on (right speaker, above the screen).
2. Press on the button to switch on the device (right speaker, bottom button).
3. To start, select the appropriate program and day, using the navigation buttons.

Position the headphones and adjust the volume
Make sure you place the ‘R’ speaker on your right ear and the arch of the headphones touches the top of your head.
Adjust the volume with the and buttons located below the right speaker.

Quick start of the audio-vocal training (left speaker)

Begin with the audio-vocal function

1. Plug the microphone on the left speaker into the correct jack.
2. Turn on the microphone function using the button on the left speaker.

Position the headphones and adjust the volume
Make sure you place the «R» speaker on the right ear and that the arch of the headphones touches the top of your head.
Position the microphone about 2 inches from your mouth.
Adjust the volume with the and buttons located below the left speaker.

To return to the default volume, turn the device off and on again.

BUTTONS AND CONNECTIONS

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Left speaker| Bottom view| Right speaker
A. Dial for the setting of the balance on the left ear.
10 = perfect balance
0 = no intensity on the left ear
Please contact a Tomatis® Professional to be able to use this setting with a specific program and device.
B. Bone conduction
The very top of the headphone’s arch must be in contact with the top of the skull to transmit bone conduction.| 1. Button to switch on the microphone
2. button to increase the volume of the microphone
3. button to decrease the volume of the microphone
4. Jack plug to connect the headphones to the TalksUp®in wired mode
5. Jack input to plug in the microphone and conduct the audio-vocal training
6. button to increase the volume of the music
7. button to decrease the volume of the music
8. USB Type-C socket to plug in the USB charging cable| 9. Select the internal program (TF) reading mode or use the headphones in Bluetooth mode to connect to TalksUp®
10. Headphones on/off button for music listening function
11. Play and pause button. File selection button in browse mode
12. Screen navigation button (down)
13. Screen navigation button (up)

How to charge Tomatis® Infinite

The battery needs to be recharged approximately every 8 hours.

Charge your headphones when you have one bar left on the battery that appears on the screen or when you hear a repetitive «beeping» sound while listening.
Connect the headphones to a standard USB port on your PC or a wall charger via the USB charging cable. The battery will fully charge within 4 hours. The bar indicator will show a bar movement when charging and will turn fixed when charging is completed.
To improve battery life, be careful not to let the device discharge completely, especially when it is unused for a few months.

TROUBLESHOOTING AND FEATURES

TROUBLESHOOTING

The device does not turn on| 1. To use the music listening function, press the button on the right speaker for 2 seconds.
2. Charge the battery.
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The audio-vocal training doesn’t work| 1. Make sure to plug the microphone into the correct socket first and then press the  button on the left speaker.
2. Charge the battery.
3. Speak out loud to hear your own voice modified.
I hear music when I use the audio-vocal function| Turn off the music listening program by pressing the  button on the right speaker.
The microphone is working during the music listening session.| Switch off the audio-vocal training by pressing the button on the left speaker.
The device turns off immediately after switching on| Check that the microphone is not plugged into the wired jack.
The volume is too high or too low during the music listening session| You can adjust the volume with the  / buttons located below the right speaker. The volume is displayed on the screen. When you switch the headphones off and on again, the default volume displayed is 12.
The volume is too high or too low during the audio-vocal training| You can move the microphone slightly or adjust the volume with the / buttons below the left speaker. To return to the default volume, turn the audio-vocal function off and on again.
Nothing happens when I turn the dial on the left speaker| This specification can only be set by a Professional.
I can hear a beeping sound| The battery needs to be recharged.
I notice changes in the timber and intensity of the musical programs and my own voice| It’s not a problem. It’s the Electronic Gating® system of the Tomatis® Method.

SPECIFICATIONS

PRECAUTIONS AND LIMITATIONS

PRECAUTIONS FOR USE
Volume: Use the default volume unless you have a hearing disorder or hyperacusis. The volume should not be uncomfortable.
If you are adjusting the volume for a child, make sure it is not too loud. To return to the default volume on the audio-vocal function, turn the device off and on again.
Duration: Use the headphones according to the instructions provided in the user guide. Do not extend the music listening program beyond the recommended time for daily sessions.
Discomfort: If you feel pain or discomfort, immediately stop using the headphones. We advise you to contact your Tomatis® Professional to better understand the reasons for this discomfort and to start using the headphones again once you feel better.
Children: Children must use the headphones under constant adult supervision.

If you are accompanied by a Tomatis® Professional, always give priority to his/her instructions.

LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER
Tomatis® Infinite is a natural and non-invasive educational tool. It is not meant for the treatment of a known disease, nor is it a means to formulate a diagnosis for any medical or psychological disorder, nor is it a therapeutic or medical device.
It is not approved by Federal Drug Administration in the USA or any other national regulatory authorities for medical products. Tomatis® Infinite can never replace a therapeutic treatment. No results are guaranteed. The customer is solely responsible.
Tomatis® Infinite can be used stand-alone and, although it is recommended, it is not essential for the application of the Tomatis® Method and the functioning of the TalksUp®. Conversely, the use of the Tomatis® Infinite headphones alone without recourse to a certified Tomatis® Professional and having Tomatis® professional equipment, cannot be assimilated to the application of the Tomatis® Method. The contents of this documentation cannot be considered medical advice and cannot replace.

STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE
Store the headphones in a cool and dry place and clean them with a soft dry cloth. The working temperature should be 0~45°C (32~113°F). Working in cold/hot environments or highly humid areas will reduce the battery life. The headphones are not water-resistant and can’t be submerged in water.

PERSONAL USE
The Tomatis® Infinite headphones are designed for personal use only and are strictly limited to the family who purchased them. The specified content is protected by copyright laws and the headphones cannot be rented out, borrowed, or used for professional use.

FCC WARNING
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

1. this device may not cause harmful interference, and
2. this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

CONTACT US
If you need to return a product under warranty, please send a detailed explanation describing the problem to infinite@tomatis.com and simply wait for the instructions.

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