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Eliminate Hearing Challenges

Millions of people suffer from hearing loss ranging from mild, moderate, to severe. Dealing with hearing loss can be daunting and often leaves you feeling isolated from family and friends. It can also affect your overall performance at work or school, and studies show it increases the risk of dementia. However, some cutting-edge technology is making life easier for people with hearing challenges.

Evolution of Hearing Care Technology

The hearing care technology market is experiencing a steady introduction of cochlear implants and hearing aids that offer unparalleled support for deaf and hearing-impaired people. The once basic solutions have evolved into multifunctional medical instruments that can only get better and enhance the employment quality of people with disabilities.

Modern hearing accessories can access the internet, scan the environment to filter noise and connect to smartphones. The latest hearing innovations have become sophisticated digital assistants that can accomplish tasks beyond correcting hearing.

Combining AI and Hearing Aids

Artificial intelligence continues to disrupt the norms across multiple industries, leaving a powerful mark in the assisted hearing industry. Livio Ai—an innovation from Starkey—uses sensors and AI to filter noise and focus on important sources. For example, it can enhance hearing when the wearer sits across someone in a noisy environment.

Moreover, it can track vital health parameters, including steps walked, stairs climbed, heart rate, and cognitive activity. The solution can also translate 27 languages. Other innovations like Nuear have an excellent sound quality and can be used as a tracker and a personal assistant. On the other hand, SoundSense Learn uses AI to help people optimize hearing aid settings based on their environment.

Notably, tech giants like Google are working on a solution that can accurately isolate speech from background noise and other voices. Combining the available solutions from brilliant providers like Helix Hearing Care and the future technology will help people with hearing loss to hear clearly regardless of their environment.

Hearing Devices: What’s New?

Several innovative hearing devices with cutting-edge technology have proven practical in providing relief for people with hearing difficulties. Most of the products exhibited at the CES convention use Bluetooth technology to facilitate seamless communication between the hearing devices and a range of other devices. This capability can enhance sound quality and allow the user to customize the settings without touching the hearing hardware.

The OrCam Hear has been hailed as the first AI-driven wearable assistive solution for people using a hearing aid. It combines accurate lip-reading capabilities and simultaneous voice separation in a finger-sized wireless device. It can identify the person addressing the device wearer –even in the presence of multiple speakers –and instantly transmit the speech to a Bluetooth-enabled hearing aid. OrCam Hear can also detect and interpret body gestures to select a person you want to listen to and switch between different speakers by reading your body movements.

Endnote

Companies that design and manufacture devices to enhance hearing are investing more money and working around the clock to build solutions that look and work better to make people more independent. In the near future, you may see semi-permanent hearing aids that need minimal maintenance and can be used continuously for months. Now that AI has set unprecedented innovations in motion, hi-tech accessories of the future are likely to reinvent hearing assistance as we know it.

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