i-HEAR PROJECT

This theme will also create a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) hearing aid system that is especially designed to improve speech understanding in noisy settings for people who have hearing loss. The project aims to use machine learning algorithms to accurately identify and suppress noise while preserving and amplifying speech signals, thereby enabling clearer and more understandable communication for users in difficult acoustic environments. This will be achieved by leveraging advances in deep learning techniques. Complex machine learning models, such as classification algorithms, which have been trained on a range of datasets with different speech and noise characteristics. To enable these models to generalize well across various contexts and noise situations, a rich dataset that captures the intricacy of real-world auditory sceneries through substantial data collection and annotation activities will be built.