hearing loss<\/a> severe enough to make conversation difficult, according to data from the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to reinvent hearing aids. We\u2019re trying to give them superpowers,\u201d said Mathini Sellathurai from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou simply point the camera or look at the person you want to hear. Even if two people are talking at once, the AI uses visual cues to extract the voice of the person you\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n
The process requires a lot of computer processing, with the sound data sent to servers in Sweden. Despite the distance, the researchers claim that high-speed broadband or 5G make it \u201cfeel instant\u201d.<\/p>\n
The technology is primarily aimed to support people who use hearing aids and have visual impairments, however it is general enough to be used by anyone working in noisy places like oil rigs or busy venues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are only a few big companies that make hearing aids, and they have limited support in noisy environments,\u201d said Professor Sellathurai. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to break that barrier and help more people, especially children and older adults, access affordable, AI-driven hearing support.\u201d <\/p>\n
The researchers are already in talks with hearing aid manufacturers and hope to have a working version of the glasses ready by 2026.<\/p>\n
They also plan to make the cloud-based model public to allow anyone with a compatible device to benefit from the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-70389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}