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Brandon Sawalich

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446 total appearances

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

And with the 310 components, you're dealing with an AI processor, Bluetooth radio, and many, many other components just to get the sound at the right levels.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

And you're talking high-tech sound and sleep.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

That's what they used to do.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Because it'd amplify everything.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

So now what we're doing with AI, we were the first to bring in AI into hearing technology in 2017.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

So what we're doing with that is we're personalizing the sound to the listener.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

So, I mean, AI is the perfect listening tool that's adjusting and adjusting their sounds and what their daily life needs to be.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

so they could do it, I would say, with hearing ease.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

And that's what you were discussing just a minute ago, the, you know, amplifying sound.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

That's the old technology, what it would do.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

And what we're doing now is, again, if I'm sitting here, we were at an event and you and I were talking, it's, you know, quieting, you know, knowing the environment that I'm in, a noisy environment, it's quieting the sounds around me and know that I'm talking to you or having a conversation and I want to focus on speech.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

You know, it's not going to bring in everything else at the same levels.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

That's what Starkey's doing different.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

I mean, that's what we're doing since 2017 is turning it from a multi-purpose, a single purpose to a multi-purpose device.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Medication.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Well, I mean, pain medication, you go down the list, there's, you know, other, you get the warning now, but there's quite a bit that are promoted on TV and other places that if you take too much of it, you're going to get tinnitus or it can, you know, lose some hearing.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Pain medication, as I mentioned, that's one of the.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Do you match the frequency?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

Sometimes with our hearing technology, yes, we can mask it and give it that white noise effect where you kind of forget about it.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
275. Brandon Sawalich: On The Science of Hearing Loss, Dementia Prevention & AI Hearing Technology

It's just shh.