Scientists develop brain-controlled hearing aid

1. 2019-05-15 at 8:13 PM UTC

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   We'reAllBrownNosers African Astronaut

   Scientists have created a hearing aid which relies on the user's own brain waves to tune into specific people and things, drowning out background noise.
   
   The device, developed at Columbia University in New York, uses speech-separation algorithms with neural networks, complex mathematical models that imitate the brain's natural abilities.
   
   The system first separates out the voices of individual speakers from a group, then compares the voices of each speaker to the brain waves of the person listening.
   
   Whichever voice pattern most closely matches the listener's brain waves will then be amplified over the rest.
   
   It is still in the early stages of development, but experts say the technology is a huge step for people hard of hearing to better communicate with the people around them.
   
   'The brain area that processes sound is extraordinarily sensitive and powerful; it can amplify one voice over others, seemingly effortlessly, while today's hearings aids still pale in comparison,' said Nima Mesgarani, PhD, a principal investigator at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the paper's senior author.
   
   'By creating a device that harnesses the power of the brain itself, we hope our work will lead to technological improvements that enable the hundreds of millions of hearing-impaired people worldwide to communicate just as easily as their friends and family do.'
   
   Modern hearing aids amplify speech and suppress background noise like traffic.
   
   But that's as precise as they get.

   
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7033509/Scientists-develop-brain-controlled-hearing-aid-amplifies-voices-WANT-hear.html
2. 2019-05-16 at 5:59 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   And yet they can't get Alexa to recognize a Manchester accent.
   
   Alexa, what time is it?
   
   In Houston it's 89 degrees.
3. 2019-05-16 at 6:35 PM UTC

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   Octavian motherfucker

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson And yet they can't get Alexa to recognize a Manchester accent.
   
   Alexa, what time is it?
   
   In Houston it's 89 degrees.

   
   Manchester is full of the gay disease. But the clubs are truly something else.
   
   Apart from the canals that are full of drowned gays and drunks.
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4. 2019-05-16 at 7:58 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by Octavian Manchester is full of the gay disease. But the clubs are truly something else.
   
   Apart from the canals that are full of drowned gays and drunks.

   
   I spent many an evening on Canal street in Manchesters gay village, not being gay of course just enjoying the drinks...most of the best pubs/clubs in Manc are around there and strangely a lot of women like to go there too...probably to get away from filthy drunk groping Manchester lads.
   
   Not a good idea to go fishing in that Canal though, you'd probably only catch what we used to call Canal trout (used condoms floating in the water)
5. 2019-05-16 at 8 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
   "Dad! what kind of fish is that glowing green long one?"
   
   "That's a Canal trout son"
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   • Octavian
6. 2019-05-16 at 8:10 PM UTC

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   Sancho Tuskegee Airman

   Originally posted by We'reAllBrownNosers https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7033509/Scientists-develop-brain-controlled-hearing-aid-amplifies-voices-WANT-hear.html

   
   Hope walmart has it, Ill have to buy that device for my kids💕💕