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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.

A robot in your ear? Acting as a hearing aid? That was one idea that was being aired at Prof Adam Stokes’ recent talk for the COG-MHEAR teams.

Nick Gompertz visited recently to tell us about the Earswitch that he has invented: a way to control multiple devices from within the ear

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.

Research at the University of Portsmouth that can improve virtual reality by tracking facial muscle movement and recognising emotion.

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.

The Medical Devices Manufacturing Centre: providing a route from ideas in medical research to new devices and techniques.

Prof John Hansen introduces his work on cochlear implant and hearing aid research

The COG-MHEAR research teams joined industry, academic and charity partners to share discoveries from the first year of research.