For many people with hearing loss, a normal conversation at a busy restaurant is the holy grail.
“[Background noise] is the number one problem that needs to be solved,” said Abram Bailey, a former practicing audiologist who now runs Hearing Tracker, a popular online resource. “…We’ve been trying to solve it in this industry for years and years and years. But we have only made these really tiny, incremental steps.”
To dampen background noise, hearing aid makers tap AI to amplify the right sounds