Hello Everyone! Welcome to my channel
today! If you're new,
my name is Emily. I am your hostess
here at Definite Hearing. I created this
channel because I have a
bilateral, moderate to severe hearing
loss in both of my ears.
I wear hearing aids and I love them!
I am so glad you're here today! Today, I'm
going to talk about
artificial intelligence in hearing aids.
I hope you stick around for the end of
this video because throughout the video
I'm going to tell you what artificial
intelligence in hearing aids
is, and at the end of the video I'm going
to tell you what i think about it
so I hope you stick around to the end of
the video because I really want to hear
what you know and think about in terms
of
hearing aid artificial intelligence.
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I plan to make more awesome content and
I want you to know when it's posted and
ready to go. I want to start this video
by defining
artificial intelligence. What artificial
intelligence is,
is machine learning or machines that can
learn
similarly to the human brain in terms of
problem solving, learning, and cognitive
function. It is incredible that we have
got to a point that we can create
machines that can
understand and subsequently learn from
the
information they process. This type of
artificial intelligence technology has
been
integrated with hearing aids. It is
incredible! Artificial intelligence has
enabled hearing aids to
have a wide variety of features and
particularly the interesting features
with artificial intelligence include
body tracking, fall alerts, uploading
information
to a cloud so that the artificial
intelligence and the hearing aids can
continue to learn, and
smart and auto sense technology. Now as I
researched hearing aid artificial
intelligence, I noticed that there were
kind of
two different groups of hearing aid
artificial intelligence,
and these groups aren't specifically
defined I'm kind of
making these up to make sense but I
would say that there's a "Basic"
group of artificial intelligence and an
"Advanced" set
of artificial intelligence features that
you can get in your hearing aids.
Speaking of Basic artificial
intelligence, I'll tell you how I define
this. Hearing aids are very sophisticated
and they are able to "hear"
sound and process what sound should be
suppressed and what sounds should be
brought out. For example, if you're
outside on a windy day,
the hearing aid is able to listen to
that sound and suppress the wind because
it knows that that sound
those frequencies and those sound
patterns are unnecessary to the ear
or on the opposite end of things if
you're in a crowded noisy room and
someone's talking to you,
the hearing aids are able to tell the
difference between the noise,
the white background crowded sounds, and
the person speaking to you. So it's able
to suppress those
noisy sounds and bring out those sounds
that you most likely
want to hear according to the artificial
intelligence algorithms and machine
learning.
Now, that seems pretty advanced and
there's no doubt that it is
but the new artificial intelligence
that's coming in
takes that what I call "Basic" artificial
intelligence
and ties it with what we would say are
smart capabilities so
smart capabilities, I liken to those
that you would find in a smart watch;
so fall detectability, body tracking,
bluetooth connectivity,
streaming sound through a microphone or
from the tv,
and other similar capabilities. There are
definitely different types of artificial
intelligence
and you can choose a hearing aid that
has a wide variety of
hearing aid intelligences. I researched a
couple different hearing aids,
so I'm going to highlight a few
attributes that they each have the Widex
Evoke has some artificial intelligences
in terms of
the ability to suppress noise and bring
out speech
but what it does is it anonymously takes
all the sound from people's hearing aids
and uploads it to a cloud
and then the machine adjusts and learns
based on that data
that it collects. I thought that was
interesting. The next device that I
looked into
is my hearing aid. I have the ReSound
Enzo 3D. This hearing aid has a lot of
the Basic
artificial intelligence perks. It does
have bluetooth connectivity which is why
I got it.
It also specifically made for Apple
products and I love that. The next is the
Phonak Marvel.
That whole line has an awesome selection
of
Autosense 3.0 and a Binaural Voice
Stream Technology. In addition to their
Roger mic and tv Airstream technology.
So lastly, I would say that this last
hearing aid is probably the most
advanced, in terms of hearing aid
artificial intelligence because of its
integration
of body tracking, fall detection, heart
rate detection, and things like that.
This hearing aid is the Starkey Livo,
specifically
the Edge model. There are a couple
different hearing aids in this brand but
that's the one I looked at specifically.
This hearing aid has so many features
into it,
it is mind-blowing. It can measure your
daily steps,
your activities, your heart rate, it has
fall detection...
there's a feature in it that says "Brain
Tracking" I'm not exactly sure what that
means but I'm sure that it measures a
brain activity.
It also has a measurement for social
interaction so your hearing aids can
tell
how much you are talking to other people.
This feature is really interesting and
kind of important in my opinion
because the more you interact with
people the more it forces your brain to
exercise those auditory lingual parts of
your brain
and it keeps them sharp and that social
interaction can ward off
dementia. So being aware of how socially
interactive you are,
can be beneficial in terms of keeping
your brain sharp. Of all of these hearing
aids, and the artificial intelligence
features that I researched
they all have different intelligence
features and it's really up to you as to
what features
you want and which ones are important to
you. I currently wear the ReSound Enzo 3D
because I love the bluetooth
connectivity. Specifically, the
connectivity to my Apple devices so if
you don't have an Apple device or you
have like an
Android, that's okay, just make sure you
get the hearing aid that not only fits
your hearing loss,
but that fits the devices you hope to
sync it with. Thank you so much for
sticking around to the end of this video
I hope that hearing aid artificial
intelligence makes more sense to you.
Now, let's talk how do I really feel
about this well, I'll be honest, I do not
wear a smart watch.
Every now and then, I wear a digital
watch because I like to run
and I simply want to track how long I
run for
sometimes I care about how long I'm
running for in terms
of distance but really time is what I
care about. So,
I track it on my watch. I personally, am
not a fan of
the smart watches that track everywhere
I go,
and can track my heart rate and my
sleeping rate and everything
because I just don't want to be tracked
all the time so
how would I feel about having a hearing
aid that tracks everything from my
social interactions to my brain activity?
I don't know that I would like that. I'm
not really comfortable with that yet
these companies claim that they can
reserve like
confidentiality and things like that but
I'm not quite there yet
and I have to admit if you watch my
"Eight Professions that a D/deaf or hard of
Hearing Person Can Do"
you learn that I am a digital marketer
and I understand
that in digital marketing, every site you
visit, everything you do online
is trackable and most likely already
being
tracked and I think that's enough. I
think that's all that companies need to
know about myself. So
that's how I feel about hearing aid AI. I
think it is incredible, but I do think
that technology needs to have limits
and it's okay for us humans to not know
how many beats per minute our heart is
getting. There's my thoughts on hearing
aid AI.
What are your thoughts on hearing aid AI?
I want to hear in the comments below!
Like I said, it's amazing that technology
has come
as far as it has come. I'm so grateful
for my hearing aids, I am so grateful
that they help me hear. That's just
something that I love! And it's awesome
that we have
this option available to us. Thank you so
much for joining me on my channel today!
Again, please leave a comment below about
what you think about hearing aid AI.
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I look forward to making more great
videos and I'll see you here again soon.
Have a great day!
