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Evening Standard
Health
Sarah Ward

AI-powered ‘hearing glasses’ could help filter out background noise in real time

More than 1.2 million adults in the UK have hearing loss severe enough to make ordinary conversation difficult (Daria Artemenko/Alamy/PA) -

Artificial intelligence is being used to create “hearing glasses” which use lip reading technology to help people with hearing loss.

The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with hearing loss by filtering out background noise in real-time, even in loud environments.

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