Demo of Brain-Controlled Hearing Aid (2019) (VIDEO)

The Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University

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This technology works by mimicking what the brain would normally do. First, the device automatically separates out multiple speakers into separate streams, and then compares each speaker with the neural data from the user's brain. The speaker that best matches a user's neural data is then amplified above the others.

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Nima Mesgarani/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

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