Reporting by Lynda Charters
Photo by Cydnet Scott, courtesy of Boston University
The concept of a visually guided hearing aid (VGHA) is intriguing and encompasses a number of different disciplines that are not for the faint of heart considering the complexity of the technologies being brought together.
While not a new concept, the VGHA, which merged out of work that was progressing on spatial hearing in the Psychoacoustics Laboratory at Boston University, Boston, is a prototype currently used for research that incorporates acoustic beamforming, a way of harnessing audio-frequency signals to focus amplification of a signal from a desired direction.
In this case, in the VGHA, the formed beam is manipulated....
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