All items tagged with speech enhancement (27)

GN Introduces New AI-Powered Hearing Aids with LE Audio and Auracast

August 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

GN Introduces New AI-Powered Hearing Aids with LE Audio and Auracast

GN Hearing announced the launch of ReSound Enzo IA (and the Beltone Boost Max S equivalent hearing aids), offering improved ability to enhance speech, especially in noisy environments, using real-time adaptive processing and more precise beamforming. The new design is promoted as the "world's smallest rechargeable" Super Power hearing aid, offering "a huge leap forward in sound quality for people with severe to profound hearing loss." It also offers Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast— something that should be totally standard in 2025.

Status Audio Unveils Advanced Wireless Earbuds Featuring Knowles Triple Driver System

July 15, 2025 by Joao Martins

Status Audio Unveils Advanced Wireless Earbuds Featuring Knowles Triple Driver System

Lifestyle brand Status Audio, founded by NY-based James Bertuzzi, unveiled the Pro X true wireless earbuds, scheduled for retail launch in early September 2025. These advanced earbuds are an interesting product with a unique design and an interesting triple-driver hybrid configuration, featuring two Knowles balanced armature drivers and one dynamic driver in each earbud. The Status Pro X TWS earbuds are also specified to support Bluetooth LE Audio, while supporting hi-res audio wireless streaming via Bluetooth classic using the LDAC codec.

Sonos Introduces AI-Powered Speech Enhancement App

May 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

Sonos Introduces AI-Powered Speech Enhancement App

Designed in collaboration with the UK’s Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), addressing the needs of people with hearing loss, but not only, the new Sonos speech enhancement solution is now available on the Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar. Supported by an AI-Powered app, the speech enhancement processing clarifies dialogue for all those struggling to catch what a character just said on TV, movies, or shows.

NewSound Unveils OTC Hearing Aids with AI Acceleration by Femtosense

March 28, 2025 by Joao Martins

NewSound Unveils OTC Hearing Aids with AI Acceleration by Femtosense

NewSound launched its first truly AI-driven over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids, powered by Femtosense’s AI Acceleration. With over two decades of expertise, the Chinese hearing aids innovator understood the power of the Femtosense Sparse Processing Unit 001 (SPU-001) for hearing assistance. This purely on-device processor allowed NewSound to launch its first affordable, accessible hearing aids based on Speech Enhancement technology from the Californian company.

New Widex Allure Hearing Aid Platform Combines Advanced Processing with First Cloud-Based Fitting Solution

March 19, 2025 by audioXpress Staff

New Widex Allure Hearing Aid Platform Combines Advanced Processing with First Cloud-Based Fitting Solution

Underscoring its commitment to helping hearing aid wearers, Widex, a part of WS Audiology, announced Widex Allure, the company’s newest platform, designed to deliver the most natural hearing experience in any environment. Allure features the all-new W1 chip for advanced processing and are the first RIC RD hearing aids to be fitted through Widex Compass Cloud, the world's first cloud-based fitting software.

Ambiq Introduces AI-Powered Speech Enhancement Platform for Hearables

February 19, 2025 by Joao Martins

Ambiq Introduces AI-Powered Speech Enhancement Platform for Hearables

The number of audio signal processing applications leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning running on ultra-low-power, on-device (edge AI) designs is growing fast for consumer, health, and medical applications. Ambiq has introduced a new solution targeting over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids and hearables that implements AI-powered speech enhancement technology using its latest Apollo510 microcontroller (MCU).

GN Introduces Their Most Advanced Hearing Aid with Dedicated DNN Chip

February 4, 2025 by Andrew Bellavia

GN Introduces Their Most Advanced Hearing Aid with Dedicated DNN Chip

GN, the Danish manufacturer of prescription and over-the-counter hearing aids, announced their new flagship model ReSound Vivia, powered by a dedicated Deep Neural Network (DNN) chip trained on 13.5 million spoken sentences in various languages and with varied vocal effort, across 3.9 million tuned sound parameters, that spotlights speech and eliminates distracting noise. The new AI powered hearing aids expand GN’s range of Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast-enabled solutions.

Skyworks Introduces AI Dialog Boost Real-Time Solution at CES 2025

January 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

Skyworks Introduces AI Dialog Boost Real-Time Solution at CES 2025

During CES 2025, Skyworks presented a new software solution that makes movie dialogue significantly easier to understand without diminishing the sound quality. AI Dialog Boost is an embedded software solution that improves voice clarity and is beneficial for a wide range of media playback and capture devices. The software can be tailored to various embedded applications, ensuring improved sound quality for soundbars, headsets, TVs, radios, and other audio devices.

EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition

January 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition

EssilorLuxottica just expanded its presence in the hearing space with the acquisition of an AI-driven tech startup in France and its talented team. The company, Pulse Audition, is just one of hundred of startups currently pursuing the concept of hearing glasses, in this case adding an edge with unique AI-based speech enhancement and noise reduction processing technologies embedded in the frames. The technology promises to accelerate the Nuance Hearing Glasses project.

Phonak Unveils AI-Powered Real-Time Speech Separation in Noisy Environments

August 6, 2024 by Joao Martins

Phonak Unveils AI-Powered Real-Time Speech Separation in Noisy Environments

Phonak, a Sonova brand, launched a new family of hearing aids based on its latest Infinio platform. Part of the Infinio family with several Bluetooth-enabled models that still don't support LE Audio, is the Audéo Sphere Infinio, said to be the world's first hearing aid with a dedicated real-time AI chip for speech-from-noise separation. Powered by a new Phonak ERA processor, and a dedicated NPU, the new Audéo Sphere Infinio hearing-aids are able to enhance speech understanding from any direction.

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