Data analytics and machine learning improving quality of life: The case of the uSound intelligent hearing system

M. Asunción Fragni, Juan Pedro Lipari, Antonela Vistalli and Ezequiel Espiňo

Details how students from the University of Jujuy, an Argentine national university, created the uSound Intelligent Hearing System to help people with a hearing impairment in Argentina.

Introduction

In the world there are 640 million people who suffer from a hearing impairment (WHO). However, only 1 in every 40 has access to a hearing aid. In Argentina, according to the last census of the INDEC (2010) there are 1,500,000 people diagnosed with hearing loss, and it is estimated that there is an equal number of people who are not diagnosed.

Just by reading this data, in a world where technology sets the course, it would be great to be able to press a button and enable hearing impaired people to reach a normal hearing level. A group...

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