Adam and Jerusha Shulberg reflect on a defining chapter of service in Western Nepal.

“The goal was to build something that would be lasting.”

For Adam and Jerusha Shulberg, being of service is not something separate from their work in hearing care. It is part of the reason they chose the work in the first place.

In 2001, Adam travelled to Western Nepal to help establish an audiology service in a remote, severely underserved region of around one million people.

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a feature of the latest hearing technology - there’s been a lot of talk about this recently.

But its more important role begins much earlier, in the hearing science research itself.

AI is allowing hearing scientists to analyse extraordinarily complex information: millions of sound samples, patterns of head and eye movement, physiological responses, brain activity and data gathered from listening experiences in the real world.

Phonak has just introduced EON, its newest generation of hearing technology - designed around one of the most persistent challenges in hearing:

Following conversation when listening becomes complex.

In real life, noise rarely stays still.

People move. Conversations grow. Someone joins the table. Background noise rises and falls. You move from one listening environment into another.

We often think about hearing protection in surprisingly simple terms: the more sound we block, the better protected we are.

But hearing preservation is more intelligent than that.

Oticon has launched Reveal™, the world’s first hearing aid powered by Dual AI. 

This marks a significant shift in the way AI is used in hearing technology: not only to make speech clearer, but also to give you the meaningful contextual sounds that help the brain make sense of any listening situation.

For years, hearing-aid development has understandably focused on the problem most people describe first: “I can hear that someone is talking, but I cannot make out the words.”