Phonak Audéo Sphere Infinio hearing aid with AI chip

The Phonak Audéo Sphere Infinio hearing aid is powered by a dedicated real-time AI chip for speech-from-noise separation. Speech understanding in background noise remains the biggest challenge for people with hearing loss. This technology provides speech clarity from any direction, with an improvement in SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) in noise of 10 dB.

The hearing aid features ERA and DEEPSONIC AI chips and offers a 45% reduction in listening effort, according to the company. It also enables uninterrupted hands-free calls and streaming across twice the distance, and is compatible with all Bluetooth-enabled devices.

The DEEPSONIC chip provides real-time AI processing to instantly separate speech from background noise. It enables dynamic, real-time adjustments, allowing users to engage in conversations from any direction. The chip’s AI architecture includes a deep neural network (DNN) — with 4.5 million neural connections trained with over 22 million sound samples — and is 53 times more powerful than existing chips according to the company.