Hearing aids may be about to find a new market - young people with no hearing loss. Starkey says AI in its new hearing aids means they can make phone calls and translate languages
Hearing aids may be about to find a new market - young people with no hearing loss. Starkey says AI in its new hearing aids means they can make phone calls and translate languages
A Minneapolis-based company uses AI to give hearing aids cool features like real-time language translation, fall detection and alerts.
At first, an in-ear phone and language translator, while useful, might not seem compelling. But take things a bit further. This relies on a mini-computer and connection to the internet in the hearing aid. What if that allowed you to connect to Chat-GPT? Or future more powerful versions of it. That might be more compelling. Sci-fi has often envisioned cyborgs in the future. Maybe one day people will look back at stuff like this and think it was the first baby steps of that technology.
As long as they call it a babelfish I'm interested.
Technology like this would be ruined by ads. There is no way it would not play ads.
Here's hoping that it gets hacked to let me use my own content.
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On our way to making the Grain from Black Mirror a reality I see.
Can it help with the constant noise I take in all the time. Nothing is wrong with my hearing I just hear it all and can't focus on someone talking to me if something else is louder no matter what I do.
I've read good things about these before, might help: loopearplugs.com (I'm not affiliated)
That's a sign of attention deficit, talk to a doctor and you can probably get help.
I only started talking to my doctor about having issues with just that. Had no idea that was a potential sign
If they make one that lasts all day, and has active noise cancelation above like 100db for hearing protection, I'm all in
also want the possibility to turn my hearing on/off on demand. sometimes i just like to sleep like a deaf cat xd
Hmm, I guess, potentially interesting for migrants / asylum seekers, who struggle with even just understanding the language.
Can't really imagine anyone buying these for phone calls, when regular earphones, or you know, just holding your phone to your ear, already exist.
It's kind of even an anti-feature for phone calls, if people can't see these hearing aids. Everyone will think you're crazy, talking to yourself...My partner speaks a native language which is extremely rare - only a few million people worldwide speak the language. So uncommon that it's hard to find software to teach me the language. A real-life babble-fish would make life a million times easier when visiting her family who doesn't speak English (I assume, since I know that AI including Chat is capable of translating to and from the language fairly well with good grammar, but I doubt that it would be able to easily synthesize speech patterns for a rare language compared to converting their language to English. But I could be wrong lol.
Think about tuning out annoying people or sounds. Turning up volume on people who are low talkers. Turning down loud people.
Phones are heavy and my pixel 6 wrecks my hand if I hold it for too long. Hearables are the future I envision. Glad it's coming to fruition
Bluetooth headphones do that already for a fraction of the price though... there's even Bluetooth monitors for musicians that can selectively block certain frequencies/amplify certain sounds. Calling this a 'hearing aid' just seems like an attempt to cash in on insurance money/charge a premium because then it's in a category of 'medical devices' rather than just consumer electronics.
Putting AI in something doesn't automatically make it good.