Bose has a “hearables” line in this vein. I know 5 or 6 folks in their labs, and it’s sounding (hah) promising. They aren’t medical devices, yet, but beamformi

Bose has a “hearables” line in this vein. I know 5 or 6 folks in their labs, and it’s sounding (hah) promising. They aren’t medical devices, yet, but beamforming earbuds are a thing now. I expect to see full medical devices that do this in the next decade or so. DeLiang Wang's group at Ohio State is doing great stuff for speech extraction in complex environments, as are some of my colleagues in other universities in collaboration with Starkey. It’s coming along!