Reading Lips Through Masks? New ‘Remarkably Accurate’ Technology Could Help Create Next Gen Hearing Aids
A new system capable of reading lips with remarkable accuracy even when speakers are wearing face masks could help create a new generation of hearing aids. An international team of engineers and computing scientists developed the technology, which pairs radio-frequency sensing with artificial intelligence for the first time to identify lip movements. The system, when…
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MDHearing Launches QuietTV, Wireless Television Headphones
MDHearing has announced the launch of QuietTV – wireless headphones to allow wearers to set the television to their preferred sound and comfort levels. The new QuietTV headphones help address one of the most common issues reported by people with hearing loss: being able to clearly hear and understand the television, without impacting those around…
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MiniSpeech, an iOS app for deaf and hard of hearing people, goes into free public beta testing
MiniSpeech is a new iOS app designed for deaf and hard of hearing people. It uses voice recognition to provide live transcription of what people are saying, and allows the user to type words to show in large type to others. The user can pre-configure common phrases, including ones that explain to others how…
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Introducing the Electronic Tuning Fork – an Innovation to Detect Ear Blockage
Manual tuning forks have been used for hearing health care since Weber in the late 18th century discovered a process for identifying ear blockages often due to wax, fluid or other diseases of the ear. Summus Hearing Solutions and TeTo Technologies are pleased to announce a major electronic upgrade for wide use by physicians, audiologists…
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Alango Introduces EasyWatch™ Technology for Improved TV Listening Experience
EasyWatch is a new technology from Alango that personalizes the TV watching experience to enhance intelligibility of dialogue: the video is slowed to match the pace of the audio, maintaining synchronization of the audio and video streams. Alango EasyWatch technology has been developed to address a common complaint among television watchers: difficulty understanding speech in…
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Reports from a Consumer Inside the Soundproof Booth
By Garrett Thompson, AuD “The Young and the RIC-less: Musings from a Millennial Audiologist” is a quarterly column by Garrett Thompson. Mixing it up from the normal “The Young and the RIC-less” format, this article will be more conversation than monologue. I’ll be sharing an interview with a young guy who, in bold…
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