Hearing the bigger picture
Run time: 13.30 – 14.30
Can you help improve new audio-visual hearing aid algorithms?
Join Bryony Buck (Edinburgh Napier University) for a lively conversation about hearing loss, where she’ll discuss audio-visual speech enhancement developments and invite your feedback.
Using real-time examples, together we’ll explore what future hearing aids should be like.
This new tech is vital: hearing loss affects over 20 per cent of us globally but very few people are getting help.
Bryony will reflect on the stigma surrounding hearing loss and talk about her inclusive approach to research.
She’ll explain how her team is tackling biases in scientific and medical research, and their aim to broaden our understanding of hearing loss and other conditions that make communication difficult, including dementia, autism, chronic pain and depression.
Please note that this event will involve discussions around social isolation and adverse health conditions.
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