How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double as Hearing Aids
From: MIT Technoligy Review - 08/14/2017
By: Rachel Metz

This app that pairs with AirPods promises to help people with hearing loss.

A Swiss startup is trying to make this reality with an app called Fennex,
recently released for the iPhone, that works with Apple’s $159 AirPods
wireless earbuds. Alex Mari, CEO of the startup of the same name, says that
he chose Apple's devices and mobile platform for the app in part because of
their popularity, but also because he thinks an Android phone would result in
more latency when processing sound.

Mari says today's version functions like a “cheap hearing aid”: it simply
tests your hearing in each ear and uses those results to act as a
personalized, adjustable amplifier. If you’re having trouble hearing in a
class, for instance, you could place your phone near the lectern while you're
sitting a few rows back and listening in on a pair of AirPods.

Read the entire article at:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608597/how-your-apple-wireless-earbuds-could-double-hearing-aids

Links:
Fennex
https://www.fennex.io

Petralex
http://petralex.pro

Earbuds That Give You More Selective Hearing
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603675/earbuds-that-give-you-more-selective-hearing

How Your Apple Wireless Earbuds Could Double as Hearing Aids (audio 3:50)
https://youtu.be/h1rXZh6O77M