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It's Thursday, July 21st, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. A product that could help you hear the person you're trying to have a conversation with in a loud, crowded room.

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Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Have you ever been in a crowded restaurant and struggled to hear what your conversation

partner or the server was saying to you? If you use hearing aids, you've almost certainly

experienced this countless times, but some people who don't use hearing aids can also have a lot

of trouble processing sounds when there are a lot of competing background noises. A team of

researchers at Columbia University have developed a potential solution to this challenge. Using electrodes placed on the auditory cortex, the system enables the brain to generate a different electrical signal for each speaker that you're hearing. Those signatures are generated using a deep learning algorithm that can differentiate between different voices in a room and amplifies the one

with the best match so that the user hears that speaker above all else. Quoting the MIT technology

review, the system, described in science advances, was tested on three people without hearing loss

who were undergoing surgery at North Shore University Hospital in New York.

They had electrodes implanted as part of their treatment for epilepsy, meaning their brain signals

could be monitored. The participants were played a tape of four people speaking continuously.

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