Thursday 30 May 2019

Hearing-aid listens to brainwaves to separate a voice in a crowd

Researchers have employed a Neural Network Model to deal with the issue of the "Cocktail Party ...

Hearing aids can be life-savers, but they're not usually very smart. Sure, they can be tuned to make speech clearer and suppress background noises, but in a crowd, they amplify every voice. This is known as The Cocktail Party Problem, and a team at Columbia University think it's cracked it – by listening to your brain first. This issue isn't limited to human listeners either, as devices like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant all suffer from the same limitations.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2K9RDk8

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