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Scientists Build ‘Mind-Reading’ Hearing System for Noisy Environments


A team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated, for the first time in human trials, a device that reads brain signals to automatically amplify the voice a listener wants to hear -- a potential lifeline for the 430 million people worldwide with disabling hearing loss.

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