Livio Edge AI

User-activated Edge Mode in Starkey Livio Edge AI hearing aids optimizes speech audibility and sound quality in all listening environments by assessing the levels of speech and noise that are present with an onboard AI model trained with machine-learning technology. By dynamically applying gain, output, noise management, directional microphones, and other features, Edge Mode ensures that sounds are optimized for each person in every environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted Livio Edge AI’s superior technological capabilities in ways we couldn’t have imagined prior to the outbreak. The use of face masks to stop the spread of the virus has created even greater communication challenges for those with hearing loss, acting as a barrier to speech. The combination of social distancing, face mask use, and the presence of background noise reduces speech audibility for everyone, but especially for hearing aid users.

By using AI-based acoustic analysis and processing, Edge Mode instantaneously optimizes speech audibility to offset the three communication challenges presented above. More than a “mask mode” offset, Edge Mode for Masks focuses on providing speech audibility regardless of which type of mask is used, how much social distancing is in effect, and in the presence of quiet or noisy listening environments.