Study Reveals Potential Breakthrough in Hearing Technology
From: Bioscience Technology - 11/18/2013

Computer engineers and hearing scientists at The Ohio State University have
made a potential breakthrough in solving a 50-year-old problem in hearing
technology: how to help the hearing-impaired understand speech in the midst
of background noise.

In the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, they describe how they
used the latest developments in neural networks to boost test subjects'
recognition of spoken words from as low as 10 percent to as high as 90
percent.

The researchers hope the technology will pave the way for next-generation
digital hearing aids. Such hearing aids could even reside inside smartphones;
the phones would do the computer processing, and broadcast the enhanced
signal to ultra-small earpieces wirelessly.

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DeLiang "Leon" Wang
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~dwang/