Evolve with Evoke: The World's First Real-Time Machine Learning Hearing Aid Oliver Townend

AudiologyOnline: What motivated Widex to develop a hearing aid with machine learning? Oliver Townend: Our vision is to help people access a world of sound by providing perfect hearing. We are always looking for innovative ways to reach our vision, and with machine learning we saw the potential to achieve it. Direct connectivity to smart phones via 2.4GHz unlocked the door to put something really powerful, yet incredibly simple and intuitive in the hands of the wearer. What the machine-learning algorithm in SoundSense Learn really allows is quick and effective minor adjustments of the hearing aid in the moment, in real-life, but without the need to learn complex controls.