For those who have been posting in this thread that there is no peer-reviewed research on the tech in the Phonak Audeo Sphere, I’d like to point out, as @bigaltavista did earlier in the thread, that Phonak (or a related subsidiary) published a paper on DNN processing of noise removal in the journal NATURE, one of the world’s leading scientific publications, in February 2023. That’s PEER-REVIEWED.
A link to the Nature article was posted in a new thread ~simultaneously with publication by Abram Bailey on 2/15/23: Restoring speech intelligibility for hearing aid users with deep learning , and previously referenced in this thread by @bigaltavista Phonak Audéo Sphere - #40 by bigaltavista
Although Abram in his 2023 post didn’t reveal whether it had anything to do with Phonak, I’d like to take credit for making the connection then:
I did a Bing/ChatGPT search to see what hearing aid company Audactic might be associated with and got the following answer, which I’ve edited for brevity:
I’m sorry, I could not find any information about a German company called Audactic that is associated with hearing aids. The only Audactic I found is a Swiss company that develops systems to intelligently modify sound using artificial intelligence¹. They claim to provide a solution for millions of hearing aids users, but they do not seem to be a hearing aid company themselves¹.
Source: Conversation with Bing, 2/16/2023(1) Home - Audatic. https://audatic.ai/ Accessed 2/16/2023.
Interesting. Sonova is a Swiss-based company (the parent company of Phonak). Research has to be world-class to get published in Nature. Interesting that they expect to get stuff that now requires a laptop (not even a smartphone!) to run on HA’s “within a few years.”
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