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.
To be clear, they aren’t bad questions you’re asking, but it’s hard to explain unless you experience it. For fun, search “6500 hz tinnitus” On youtube, and see how long you can stand it. Then understand that I’ve been hearing that nonstop for like 2 years now, 24/7