Hearing problems among newly arrived immigrants and language acquisition challenges

Hearing problems among newly arrived immigrants and language acquisition challenges

Among newly arrived immigrants studying Swedish, 17 percent reported problems hearing conversations.

Solution to 'cocktail party problem' could help people with hearing loss

Researchers drew inspiration from the auditory system to design a solution for the "cocktail party problem."

A new AI translation system for headphones clones multiple voices simultaneously

Spatial Speech Translation addresses one of automatic translation’s biggest challenges: lots of people speaking at the same time.

AI Headphones Translate Multiple Speakers at Once, Cloning Their Voices in 3D

University of Washington researchers designed a headphone system that translates several people speaking at once, following them as they move and preserving the direction and qualities of their voices. The team built the system, called Spatial Speech Translation, with off-the-shelf noise-cancelling headphones fitted with microphones.