The social impact of a better and more affordable hearing aid would be immense. Especially since the social isolation of hearing loss takes such a devastating toll on one’s social life. And it’s there’s interesting technical challenges that have to be solved. Mainly packing as much digital signal processing onto a very low compute environment.
As someone with hearing loss, it’s sad to see promising startups like Whisper.AI leave the market. There should be dozens of hearing aid startups out there. Where are they?
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Tech Startups seek to grift and pull profit from the middle of normal things, thus making them less reliable with apps and more expensive to account for it.
I’d love to see a non-profit open source hearing aid technology, not an Uber of hearing aids.