Hearing loss affects about 3.6 million Australians. Modern hearing aids use Digital Signal Processing for frequency-dependent gain to compensate for hearing loss.
Hearing loss is a debilitating condition that affects approximately 3.6 million Australians. Hearing aids are a common rehabilitative tool that provide frequency-dependent sound amplification to compensate for hearing loss at those frequencies. What may have simply started as ear trumpets has now evolved into fully digital hearing aids that integrate multiple techniques to maximise the user's hearing clarity and comfort.
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is one such technique that allows gain at different frequency bands to be adjusted for each user without any hardware changes. This filtering can also be changed automatically depending on the environment - whether the user is listening to music or is in a noisy restaurant.
This talk will discuss hearing loss and the compromises that are made in hearing aids to minimise its effect.
Who should attend
Related disciplines such as Information Technology, Electronic Engineering or Acoustics. Anyone with hearing loss, an interest in adaptive digital signal processing technology, low-power communication technology or battery-operated microelectronics.
About the speaker
Tharin Sayed
Clinical Audiologist, PhD Candidate at Flinders University
Tharin Sayed is a Clinical Audiologist graduating from Flinders University. She works primarily in adult rehabilitation and is continuing to specialise in hearing loss and tinnitus. She is currently undertaking a PhD in tinnitus research utilising advances in neuromodulation.