According to Pocketalk, its product has the ability to “reduce non-medical costs in translation and interpretive services, and offers immediate communication that will eliminate wait times and dependency on other bilingual coworkers.”
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Advancements in natural language processing (NLP) enable computers to understand what humans say and help people communicate through tools like machine translation, voice-controlled assistants, and chatbots.
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If heart attacks blared a warning signal, patients would have a better chance of avoiding them. That’s the idea behind a new imaging technique developed by a Michigan State University team of researchers.
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Healthy Hearing and Clear Digital Media (CDM) announce the launch of HH TV, “a custom-designed streaming TV channel designed to play in the waiting rooms of hearing care providers.”
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A new study led by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and conducted at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), revealed that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) particles can be aerosolised by an infected person during talking and singing. They also found that fine aerosols (less than 5 micrometres, or μm) generated from these two types of activities contain more viral particles than coarse aerosols (more than 5 μm).
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Akouos, Inc announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) issued a positive opinion on the company’s application for orphan drug designation for AK-OTOF, a gene therapy intended for the treatment of otoferlin gene-mediated hearing loss. The positive opinion was subsequently adopted by the European Commission.
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Based on expectations that “its strong business momentum and market share gains in Hearing Healthcare will continue in H2 – despite tailwind from the French reform not recurring to the same extent as in H1 – Demant upgrades its guidance for the Group’s organic growth rate for 2021 to 26-30% (previously 24-28%).”
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Researchers says that the results support the notion that musical and linguistic brain functions are closely linked in the developing brain.
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Dr Tran Do has joined the staff of New Jersey audiology practice The Hearing Center, after completing a residency with a focus on cochlear implant patients.
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When we speak, although we may not be aware of it, we use our auditory and somatosensory systems to monitor the results of the movements of our tongue or lips. This sensory information plays a critical role in how we learn to speak and maintain accuracy in these behaviors throughout our lives. Since we cannot typically see our own faces and tongues while we speak, however, the potential role of visual feedback has remained less clear.
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The “Usher Syndrome Society Translational Research Grants” are intended to support translational research on Usher syndrome in either preclinical research and/or mechanism-based therapeutic development. The USH Society has committed to funding up to $500,000 over two years for research projects that include well-documented research collaborations across sensory modalities and across scientific disciplines.
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The Melbourne, Australia-based hearing start-up Hearables3D announced that it has raised A$1M (USD $734,335) of funding to accelerate its expansion into European and US markets.
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Wearable technology seems poised to take over next-generation electronics, yet most wireless communication techniques are not up to the task. To tackle this issue, scientists from the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, delved deep into human-body communications, in which human tissue is used as the transmission medium for electromagnetic signals. Their findings pave the way to more efficient and safer head-worn devices, such as binaural hearing aids and earphones.
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Bose announced the new SoundControl Hearing Aids — the “first FDA-cleared, direct-to-consumer hearing aid developed for adults with perceived mild-to-moderate hearing loss.”
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The results collectively reveal how the brain continues responding to music, even when none is playing, and provide new insights into how human sensory predictions work. An article detailing the research appears on the Trinity College Dublin website.
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