Posted on 01/13/2020 8:43:22 PM PST by aimhigh
For many people who have hearing problems it is noisy environments, such as busy restaurants, that are their main problem. Hearing aids help somewhat, but even the most advanced ones can’t amplify only single individuals that the user is talking to when there are other speakers nearby.
At CES 2020 we ran into OrCam, an Israeli company that has developed technology that combines computer vision with audio modulation to know who the intended speaker the user is trying to listen to and to only amplify that person’s speech. This is a smart reworking of a similar technology in OrCam’s other products that use cameras to help visually impaired people understand what’s around them.
(Excerpt) Read more at medgadget.com ...
Lets aim that tech at politicians who will have more flexibility after the election.
How do the 8 million people in Israel seem to produce about a hundred times as many useful inventions as the 400 million in the rest of the Middle East?
The last invention of the Middle East was combining a tippy-bird with an SA-15 anti-aircraft missile fire control system.
"Sheldon is placed on a chair in the "Cone of Silence", which consists of a raised circular platform suspended by three wires tied to a common vertex. Although the cone's surface is open, noise canceling sound generators located just below the vertex shroud anyone sitting inside in a complete silence impossible in natural surroundings."
Later parodied in Get Smart. Smart Israelis.
My father is about 70% deaf and doesn’t like to wear his hearing aid.
Drives me nuts.
Try being your father and really go nuts. Hearing aids help very little especially when more than one person is talking. Hearing aids make your ear sweat and then itch while doing very little to help you hear. I am totally deaf in one ear and after I have been up an about for an hour or two my other ear goes patulous and makes understanding anything very difficult and louder only makes it worse. One on one conversations I can get by with, family gatherings, forget it.
I use a Zvox sound bar ion my TV and it does a great job, get you father on of those or rig some earbuds to his TV
No interest here for me just passing along what helped me enjoy TV a little more, the (Zvox on Amazon) sound bar uses hearing aid technology to filter out some of the overtones and stuff that makes dialog more difficult to understand. I still use closed captions with the display customized as Amazon, Hulu and Netflix allows that and so does ROKU and I suppose many others.
PS I bought a return or refurb for about half the list price.
Try wearing them sometime.
The crash of all that noise does not help hearing someone’s speech.
Bkmk hearing
I saw this at CES. They use AI to pull a voice out of background noise in real time.
It’s currently a phone app. Amazing results, I’ll be purchasing.
It’ll be in an earbud soon.
I got hearing aids couple years ago and while they are no panacea, they have greatly improved the quality of my life, and my family says it’s improved their quality of life.
The effectiveness in noisy situations like restaurants is pretty minimal, better than nothing. But otherwise they’ve helped a great deal and I don’t have any comfort issues. I frequently forget that I have them on.
I wear the over-the-ear kind which are more effective.
I agree. Amen
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