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The latest technology: AI hearing aids

Last update on 04/12/2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing revolutionary changes to many aspects of our daily lives. As the technology develops and evolves, it’s playing a bigger role in enhancing how hearing aids work — and the future only holds more promise.

Dr. Thomas Tedeschi, Au.D.

Chief Audiology Officer, Miracle-Ear

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Key takeaways

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly being used in hearing aids.
AI technology aims to enable machines to gather information, learn and make predictions and decisions like a human would.
AI hearing aids work by gathering data about the sound around you and how you use your hearing aids and using that information to automatically make adjustments.
AI hearing aids can analyze as many as 192,000 data points per second.
Because they make so many seamless, automatic adjustments, AI hearing aids offer some of the best sound quality on the market.

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What is AI?

AI is a catchall term for multiple technologies that all work toward the goal of enabling machines to gather information, learn, and then make predictions and decisions based on it. Machine learning and deep neural networks fall under the umbrella of AI as well, and we’ll discuss how they apply to hearing aids below.

How does the latest AI hearing aid technology work?

So how do AI hearing aids work? Whether you’re at home or out and about, the processors in AI hearing aids are “listening” too—collecting data points about the millions of sounds that surround you. And when you make adjustments to your hearing aids, like changing the volume or switching programs, they recognize and record those actions. Using the combination of environmental data points and your actions, the AI in hearing aids learns what helps you hear better in ever-changing sound environments. The more it learns, the better it can make adjustments in fractions of seconds so that your hearing experience adapts on the fly. The end result is a more natural listening experience that requires less intervention from you—because the hearing aids will do it all for you.

This technology is available in our most innovative line of hearing solutions, Miracle-EarBLISS™. Our SmartSense Technology™ adjusts as you hear, making over 80 million automatic adjustments per hour to ensure effortless listening and deliver superior sound at all times.

It might surprise you to learn that AI in hearing aids isn’t necessarily new. The core concept behind AI — teaching machines to recognize patterns and take specific actions in response to them, mimicking human learning and actions — has informed hearing aid development for the past couple of decades. It has helped with the development of speech recognition, background noise suppression and more. What we’re seeing today in the latest hearing aid technology is a dramatic advance in machines’ ability to process information and make more refined adjustments — and the speed with which that can be done.

Machine learning hearing aids do the things that you would have had to do over and over again by yourself while wearing the models of decades past. Machine learning takes over tasks like adjusting to noisy sound environments to ensure that you can hear the people you’re talking to over surrounding chatter. As you wear these advanced hearing aids — machines, in this case — they learn your habits and preferences and take over the work of refining the sound you hear.

Deep neural networks are the technology that enables machine learning. They are structured in a way that mimics the interactions of the brain’s neurons — one connecting to the next and passing on information. Harnessing deep neural networks for hearing aids is still in relatively early stages, but it holds promise for further refining capabilities to distinguish voices in loud environments.

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Hearing aids with AI: features

Hearing aids with AI features can help improve your overall listening experience. They can be especially effective as noise reduction hearing aids because they are able to make micro adjustments in fractions of a second, helping you overcome listening challenges in real time. For example, AI hearing aids with Miracle-Ear’s Conversation+ technology analyze up to 192,000 data points per second. This makes it possible to track up to six people within a 6.5-foot distance, following their voices even as they move through a noisy environment. With technology like this, they stand out as some of the best hearing aids for speech clarity.

Many traditional hearing aids either come with pre-set programs, or let you create programs for certain settings (e.g. restaurants or outdoors). When you manually switch to the program, it adjusts your hearing aids to help you overcome listening challenges like wind noise or background noise. However, these programs set the sound levels according to a predicted formula, and that formula might not be exactly right in practice. AI hearing aids are able to adapt automatically to subtle (or not-so-subtle) changes in your surrounding environment.

The benefits of hearing aids with AI technology

AI-powered hearing aids are particularly well-suited for people who have active lifestyles that put them in many different listening environments. The key AI hearing aids benefits are features that help identify speech in noisy environments and even track speakers’ voices, making it easier to adapt in the moment and ensure that you’re able to follow everything that’s going on around you.

But the benefits don’t stop at AI technology. In general, hearing aids — whether AI-powered or not — offer many benefits, from supporting mental health¹, mitigating the risk of cognitive decline², lower fall risk for older adults³ and more.

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Cost of AI hearing aids: what to expect

As you might expect, hearing aids with the most current and advanced technology are priced differently than the most basic models. However, there are still some variations among AI hearing aid costs, so it’s important to talk to a hearing care professional at Miracle-Ear about what might work for your budget.

FAQs about AI hearing aids

Curious to learn more? Get answers to some of the most common questions about AI hearing aids below. And if you have more questions about AI hearing aids, visit a Miracle-Ear location near you to speak with a hearing care professional. While you’re there, you can try out the experience and also receive a free hearing test.

AI hearing aids can help people with a wide range of hearing loss, from mild to severe. Different hearing aid types and styles are equipped with AI technology, so choosing the right AI hearing aid comes down to choosing the type of hearing aid that meets your needs.

For instance, completely-in-canal (CIC) hearing aids are best for people with mild to moderate hearing loss, while receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids can be effective for people with mild or moderate to severe hearing loss.

AI hearing aids have a battery life as long as standard hearing aids. Variations will depend on the exact type of hearing aid you use, and whether you choose a rechargeable model (which has batteries that can last years, and up to 51 hours on a single charge) or one with disposable batteries (which can last from 3-14 days).

The beauty of AI hearing aids is that they make adjustments on their own, rather than requiring you to do things like manually change settings or volume. What’s more, they make more adjustments than it would even be possible for you to make — as many as 80 million adjustments per hour.

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Sources

¹ Zhang L, Yu J, Zhang H, Chen S. Association between the hearing aid and mental health outcomes in people with hearing impairment: A case-control study among 28 European countries. J Affect Disord. 2024 Sep 15;361:536-545. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.06.085. Epub 2024 Jun 24. PMID: 38925313.

² Lin, Frank R et al., Hearing intervention versus health education control to reduce cognitive decline in older adults with hearing loss in the USA (ACHIEVE): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, Volume 402, Issue 10404, 786 - 797. ISSN 0140-6736. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01406-X.

³ Campos L, Prochazka A, Anderson M, Kaizer A, Foster C, Hullar T. Consistent hearing aid use is associated with lower fall prevalence and risk in older adults with hearing loss. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Oct;71(10):3163-3171. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18461. Epub 2023 Jun 14. PMID: 37314100; PMCID: PMC10592632.