Audio software technology aims to solve ‘cocktail party problem’
1 February 2022
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Breakthrough technology from Cambridge audio software specialist AudioTelligence is set to help solve the ‘cocktail party problem’.
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80% of adults aged between 40 and 64 find it hard to follow conversations in noise – with over 200 million people worldwide looking for a solution, according to the company’s research. But AudioTelligence’s new Aiso for Hearing product has been demonstrated to improve speech understanding in noisy environments from 5% to 98%.
Current assistive listening technologies, based on beamforming and noise suppression, provide only a partial solution to the cocktail party problem. When hearing aids are used in noisy environments, they tend to amplify all the sounds – including the background noise – so the user still finds it difficult to follow the conversation.
Aiso for Hearing adopts a different approach – instead of amplifying all sounds from a particular direction, Aiso separates the speech signals from the surrounding noise. This allows a user to hear individual voices [...]