Google Australia has announced five new partnerships with Australian hearing leaders to create more individualised AI hearing technologies.
Google will work with Cochlear, Macquarie University Hearing, National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL), NextSense, and The Shepherd Centre as part of the cooperation, to investigate uses for AI and machine learning in hearing solutions which as part of Google’s Digital Future Initiative.
With the aim of providing a better future for the more than 1.5 billion individuals who suffer from hearing loss worldwide, research will concentrate on improving hearing technologies to overcome current obstacles and pave the path for more individualised hearing health care.
The first initiative is to customise hearing models in order to better meet individual listening requirements and improve hearing aids and other listening equipment.
In order to more accurately identify, classify, and separate sound sources, this project will investigate novel applications of AI. In the end, this might make it simpler for those utilising assistive listening devices to follow a conversation or activity since the technology could aid to prioritise sounds, such as a person speaking, and filter out others, such as background noise.
