Beltone Trust White Paper - Crosslink Directionality 2
ReSound Connect
A supercomputer can beat a human at chess but does
it know what that human would like to eat for lunch?
A computer that has followed the preferred eating patterns
of a person over time could probably make a
good guess, but would still guess incorrectly much of
the time. There are many examples of how intelligence
built into computers and smart devices is learning our
routines and attempting to make our lives easier. Hearing
aids are no exception. While most of the processing
capabilities in hearing aids are dedicated to amplifying
and treating the sound, there are also algorithms that
control the sound processing based on observations
of the acoustic input. And just like the super computer
and eating patterns, a hearing aid can make the wrong
guess with regard to what signal a user might want to
hear. These wrong guesses can make it harder for users
of hearing aids to hear what they want to hear. This
is why Beltone has for a decade focused on how technology
can be leveraged to let hearing aid users hear
better in noise, but still hear all sounds around them
similar to how a normal hearing person would hear.