A lab where real-life conversations are reproduced realistically; and how this helps in design of better hearing aids. Those annoying details like crisp munching in front of the TV and unintelligible railway station announcements are all included.
Researchers came together to talk about speech at the UK Speech 2022 conference in the University of Edinburgh. The COG-MHEAR teams presented posters and found out more about the complexities of speech and ceilidh dancing; plus developments in speech technology.
The COG-MHEAR teams were delighted to welcome audiologists, clinicians and an industry partner to discuss new hearing technology that can pick out conversation in noisy surroundings.
Real-time demonstrations of audio-visual speech communication with background noise cancellation, plus smart lip-reading technology showed the audience how our hearing assistive research is progressing at the start of a packed conference programme in Glasgow.