Comment by antognini

I work at Whisper AI, which is a startup building a better kind of hearing aid.

The basic pitch is that by far and away the biggest problem people with hearing aids have is hearing in noisy, crowded environments like restaurants and parties. Classical DSP algorithms have a very hard time in these situations because the spectral properties of the noise look very similar to the signal since both are speech.

What we do differently is we provide a small companion unit, about the size of a flip phone, that houses a much more powerful processor than you can fit behind the ear. Since we have more than three orders of magnitude more compute than a traditional hearing aid, we can run modern deep neural networks to denoise audio in real time.

We are hiring for a variety of roles, but I in particular have been looking to hire a machine learning engineer for my team.