AI-Powered Hearing Aids Enhance Quality of Life

Starkey, an American-owned major hearing aid manufacturer, has created a new device called the Edge AI. The way this technology works is it mimics the brain’s auditory cortex to enhance speech and reduce complex soundscapes. In other words, this is supposed to help a user understand how close or far a sound actually is and in which direction it’s coming from. Other interesting features of these hearing aids is that they have fall detection which will notify up to three people if the user has fallen, medication reminders, and what I think is incredibly cool is it will translate up to 72 languages. A member of my family uses hearing aids and I think this is an excellent use of artificial intelligence!