Artificial Hearing: From Ear Drums to Tuning Forks

About this episode

Dr. Claudia Lenk discusses brain-inspired hearing systems with Dr. Sunny Bains and other experts.

Dr. Claudia Lenk’s group creates brain-inspired hearing systems with micromechanical hair cells. In this episode of Brains and Machines , she talks to Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London about the advantages of the approach and how it could be applied to speech processing in AI. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Claudia Lenk

Guest: Dr. Sunny Bains

Topics covered

• artificial hearing
• brain-inspired systems
• speech processing
• AI
• micromechanical hair cells
• technology

Keywords

• artificial hearing
• brain-inspired systems
• speech processing
• AI
• micromechanical hair cells

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University College London, Czech Technical University, Johns Hopkins University

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