This Hearing Aid Can Translate For You—and Track Steps Too
This Hearing Aid Can Translate For You—and Track Steps Too
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 5, 201819m 5s
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Show Notes
It’s too loud for me to hear inside the Cupertino coffee bar, but Achin Bhowmik says it doesn’t bother him. He’s got a superpower, he says. If I look closely—very closely—I can see the tiny plastic tubes reaching from his ear canals to small devices hidden behind his ears. The hearing aids are running machine-learning algorithms that continuously monitor his “acoustic environment” to help him hear what he wants to hear.
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