How can AI powered hearing aids help you to hear better?

AI i. e. Artificial intelligence has become a household name. You may be aware or not but you are already using AI in many devices you use every day including your mobile phone….

AI in a digital device is able to carry out task that requires intelligence, reasoning generalization, deduction etc. It even learns from past experiences same as a human being does.  AI in hearing aids, too performs functions such as making generalizations of experiences, reasoning, learning from past. It also remembers locations and also acoustic map of that location, like we remember our preferences for places and people, AI too remembers places, preferences, preferred settings.

 Let me explain this with an example, suppose I am a hearing aid user and my most frequented places include home, office, restaurant or a market. AI enables hearing aid to recognize these places, recall the settings that I had made with the help of a hearing aid app such as reduce or increase volume or change the program for outdoor or noisy environment etc. and automatically make changes in the settings of the hearing aid whenever I go to these places.

 Not only AI will power your hearing aids to remember just the locations but also similar situations in different locations for instance lunch in a restaurant or a dinner party at someone’s house. In both these situations hearing aid with the help of AI understands that the situation is noisy and speaker is in the front or to the side hence noise cancellation or a specific directionality setting is required. Hearing aid will give you suggestions through its apps, as to what changes made in the settings of your hearing aids will best suit you in that particular situation or a hearing aid with advanced technology will make changes automatically. Some manufacturers for eg Starkey have even incorporated fall detection alarm in the hearing aids besides usual functions powered by AI such as steps counter, heart rate counter etc.

Not only this but now due to AI you will be able to locate your hearing aid if you happen to lose it or misplace it.
Easy wireless connectivity, accepting or declining call with just a tap are truly ‘user friendly’ features enabled due to AI in Hearing Aids.
AI assists hearing aid user in having hassle free hearing experience.