ATHENA: Automating hearing assessments for all
Description: Hearing loss affects nearly 1.5 million people in the Netherlands, resulting in devastating consequences for children and adults. Hearing screening is essential, but requires clinicians’ time and is not easily available to everyone. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology can revolutionise screening for hearing loss, yet, the existing systems work only for native-speaker healthy adults. We will develop and evaluate self-administered automated tests for screening multiple populations, making the tests accessible for all. We will customise freely available ASR systems to automate traditional hearing tests, and humanoid robots as interactive interfaces to increase the effectiveness of the new tests.
Funding type: grant
Funder scheme: Open technologieprogramma OTP 2024 2024-4
Start date: 2025-04-01
Investigator: Deniz Başkent
Institution: Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Funded outputs count: 0
Funder award ID: 21764
OpenAlex ID: G2741405019