Deep Learning Reinvents the Hearing Aid
From: IEEE Spectrum - 12/06/2016
By: Deliang Wang

Finally, wearers of hearing aids can pick out a voice in a crowded room

Fewer than 25 percent of people who need a hearing aid actually use one. Why?
Try as they might, makers of these devices have been unable to solve the
so-called cocktail party problem. That is, until now. Decades after hearing
aid wearers first complained that these electronic gadgets were unable to
distinguish between, say, a voice and the sound of a passing car, researchers
are applying machine learning based on deep neural networks to the task of
segregating sounds. The result: a digital filter that reliably isolates
speech from background noise.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/deep-learning-reinvents-the-hearing-aid

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