Smart Hearing Aids
Wearable or Hearing technology for your ear: “Hearable” can teach you a language or music with the help of artificial intelligence. Wearable devices can make big technological leaps in your ear.
Image: Hearable or “audible” are wearable listening devices that can interact with the user and the environment
Audio devices are wireless smart microcomputers that use speakers and microphones. They are in-ear and can be connected to the Internet and other devices, and are designed to be worn daily. Some tech companies are now marketing these as the “future of hearing aids” and focusing on their capacity to disrupt existing hearing aid markets.
Lack of screen or visual element is one of the attractive audible features. It helps to integrate the device into our lives.
But they do not hear aids, headphones, earphones, headphones, or headsets, although they can take advantage of these devices. This means that the audience can be trusted as an always-on-the-ear personal assistant in the ear. Whether for whispering reminders, playing music, amplifying voice, or talking to friends.
But with artificial intelligence, the listener can also be used to determine the user’s physiological state, in line with the user’s current knowledge or skill level in any content they have access to: for example, when learning a new language.
As an expert in educational technology, I believe that listeners can learn. Educational technology entrepreneurs debate how this new reliance on listening technologies can lead to greater voice integration in learning, a shift from relying primarily on texts to transfer knowledge.
What is not audible
To accompany traditional forms of classroom instruction or online instruction, listeners can support interaction by providing lectures, instructional podcasts, announcements, and reminders through a wide range of applications.
Audio, instant playback, and word recording are also possible so that students can test their understanding of a lesson. Smart listening devices can even set the context and choose the right time and place to deliver the best content.
This technology quickly overcomes some limitations, such as battery life and bandwidth.
Another important feature of education is the ability to translate between languages.
Hearing plays an important role in music education and language teaching because listening is at the center of music and language comprehension. Music and language students can access relevant content anywhere and practice their lessons. In addition, the biometric capabilities of the devices allow the measurement of health variables and, therefore, can be useful in health education.
Learners can use it to connect with teachers and other students almost anywhere with an Internet connection. For example, while traveling, students can collaborate on projects, access content with text-to-speech technologies, and speak directly to their teacher for advice.
Beyond the use of hearing aids in formal and informal learning environments and settings, they can be well integrated into normal life and activities and used beyond learning – for example, using voice commands to control home appliances.
Image: A close-up view of the individual’s ear as well as the hearing aid. Intelligent technology can be used to enrich the learning experience in the classroom environment.
Vocational training, independent learning
Workers can use audio devices in production facilities or other professional environments. They can enable users to search and access instructions while working with their tools without the distraction of looking at the screen.
With the advancement of technology, which can, for example, communicate wirelessly with your smartphone, the acceptance of this technology can be much wider.
Outside of formal education or the workplace, hearing aids can also help students control their learning. Increasing the popularity of educational lectures as podcasts may help to rely on audio in new ways and different types of audio devices.
Language learning for native language learners can also be enhanced with hearing aids, as these devices can be used to improve speaking, presentation, interview, or teamwork skills.
Using artificial intelligence, the hearing aid is also suitable for supporting personalized learning tailored to each learner’s characteristics and personal situations. Audiences can become one of the main ways learners interact at any age in learning.
Challenges, limitations
However, there are significant challenges in using hearing aids. The most important to date are technical limitations. The need to reduce power consumption, reduce battery size, and increase battery life and a more reliable connection are important barriers that need to be overcome by manufacturers.
Battery life and high-bandwidth connections are essential to support natural language communication, especially in language translation.
Shortly, this device may be available only in larger cities where 5G capability is currently being launched. This fifth generation of wireless technology significantly reduces the power consumption required to support long battery life and high-speed Internet. Fortunately, this feature is now included in the latest operating systems and can soon be ubiquitous.
When it comes to talking loudly in a public place or office, in addition to privacy, there are major concerns about social acceptability.
The Advent of ubiquitous devices?
Smartphones are now ubiquitous among students. This is not yet the case with hearing aids. And it may take some time for them to reach the same level of access everywhere.
On the other hand, lessons designed for hearing aids are easily accessible to students on mobile devices or other computers.
The audiences will soon be here to stay both in the wider community and the educational community. As Pierce Fox, a trend predictor and marketer put it: “Maybe instead of staring at their screens, they’re going to stare into the distance. What’s the name? A thousand-meter stare.
Shortly, this device may be available only in larger cities where 5G capability is currently being launched.
A technological leap for the ear
The first time is Thursday, and you are at a networking event, and you balance a small plate of appetizers in one hand. Someone comes to you and greets you. He behaves as if you have met him before, but you can not remember where.
“I’m Jackie Barnes,” he says.
“Jackie Barnes,” you repeat as you remember. “It was a long time ago.”
As you say his name, a small device picks up your words in your ear. It does the search, and a few seconds later gives you the information that can be found on the web: the college he attended, his current company, and that he has two children and is an aspiring runner…
True, he was a former colleague a few years ago.
“How is your new job?” He asked easily.
Here, in a world of wearable technology, such as Google Glass or Fitbit watches, add a hearing aid, a small device that you wear in your ear. If a prediction that closely watches the market is true, audiences will widely enter the market. If that happens, then what does it mean for us to interact with this new technology – and with each other?
First, let’s look at what an Audio device can do.
Some are on the market, such as Dash, a health-focused product from a German company called Bragi. With the advancement of technology, which can, for example, communicate wirelessly with your smartphone, the acceptance of this technology can be much wider.
Audiences can become one of the main ways learners interact at any age in learning.
Many people – from researchers technologists to artists – seem excited about what audibles can do in everyday life and augmented reality.
An in-ear wireless device may alert you as you walk past a bookstore where your favorite author speaks tonight. It may collect everyday words in your conversations and help mark your calendar. Or maybe you are walking on campus, and as you approach certain buildings, the sound pipes. With significant research being done at the school, become active and alert.
You can do all this without having to hide your face behind a screen or look through Google Glass. We are not far behind in technology because Bluetooth is widely used and has improved hearing aids. Lack of screen or visual element is one of the attractive audible features. It helps to integrate the device into our lives.
Audio devices are wireless smart microcomputers that use speakers and microphones.
Conclusion
Hearing Aids can be trusted as an always-on-the-ear personal assistant. Whether for whispering reminders, playing music, amplifying voices, or talking to friends.