On the way to smart hearing aids

Another success for Oldenburg's hearing research: Collaborative
Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg to receive funding for
another four years

Smart hearing aids that adapt to the individual needs of the user: for
the last four years, the researchers of the Collaborative Research
Centre (CRC) Hearing Acoustics have been working towards this goal.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/954127

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JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

On the way to smart hearing aids

Another success for Oldenburg's hearing research: Collaborative
Research Centre at the University of Oldenburg to receive funding for
another four years

Smart hearing aids that adapt to the individual needs of the user: for
the last four years, the researchers of the Collaborative Research
Centre (CRC) Hearing Acoustics have been working towards this goal.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/954127

You'd think that with all the research being done by Bose, Apple, and
friends, that the state of the hearing aid market would be stronger than
it actually is. There's a reason for that, and I'm learning as I read
the Matt Stoller letter BIG (substack) that it is due to vested,
monopolist interests. There's no reason why hearing aids shouldn't be
better and cheaper, other than the big corporations insisting that the
market remain theirs to milk for profits.

Stoller is definitely worth reading, if you're interested in this
stuff.

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:20:36 -0400, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

state of the hearing aid market would be stronger than
it actually is. There's a reason for that
....due to vested, monopolist interests.

FDA (or whoever) must approve them, and I have no idea if
federal/state mandate a hearing test via Dr. Pay-me for FDA approved
hearing aids.

Look at states' driver license...need to see an eye specialist every 4
years or so if you are suppose to wear glasses. But, on the other
hand, "Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident
than driving drunk," and legislators don't crack the whip here.

UK Tidbits

In 2011, 5,285 drivers and motorcyclists had their licences revoked
because they could not pass a standard eye test, an increase of 8%
since 2010.

There is only weak evidence of a link between poor vision and
increased accident risk. However, research establishes how vision
defects impair driving, and potentially increase crash risk.

https://www.rospa.com/media/documents/road-safety/road-observatory/Drivers-Eyesight-and-driving.pdf

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:20:36 -0400, Retrograde
<fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

state of the hearing aid market would be stronger

Echo has always been an issue for hearing impaired


Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo, interruptions, and
acoustics


Your Teams calls should sound a lot better

Microsoft has spent the past two years adding flashy new productivity
features to Teams, and now the company is overhauling how the
fundamentals work thanks to AI. We've all been on a call where someone
has poor room acoustics making it hard to hear them, or seen two
people try to talk at the same time creating an awkward "no, you go
ahead" moment. Microsoft's new AI-powered voice quality improvements
should improve or even eliminate these day-to-day annoyances.

Microsoft is now using a machine learning models to improve room
acoustics so you'll no longer sound like you're hiding in a cave.
"While we have been trying our best with digital signal processing to
do a really good job in Teams, we have now started using machine
learning for the first time to build echo cancellation where you can
truly reduce echo from all the different devices," explains Robert
Aichner, a principal program manager for intelligent conversation and communications cloud at Microsoft, in an interview with The Verge.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/13/23165520/microsoft-teams-ai-machine-learning-acoustics-interruptions-echo-cancellation-features

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