1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. SCI.MISC

  • On the way to smart hearing aids

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun May 29 20:49:50 2022
    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

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Jun 12 09:20:36 2022
    JAB <[email protected]d> 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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 12 18:21:29 2022
    On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:20:36 -0400, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> 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

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jun 13 10:24:55 2022
    On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:20:36 -0400, Retrograde
    <[email protected]d> 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

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)