31%→ 80% words understood (company trial)
Because of AI, 30 hearing-aid users understood far more words in heavy noise — according to the company that makes the device.
Fortell's neural source-separation hearing aid (launched Dec 2025) reports a pre-registered double-blind 30-person trial against Phonak's Audéo Infinio Sphere showing a 9.2 dB vs 3.1 dB signal-to-noise improvement on QuickSIN, alongside a 20-person blinded preference study published in the International Journal of Audiology (May 2026).
Sources
- primaryIJA: Spatial AI consistently preferred to state-of-the-art hearing aids in multitalker noisetandfonline.com
- primaryFortell evidence page (intelligibility trial)fortell.com
- secondaryIndependent summary: what is actually known about Fortellaudiologyassociates.org
Editor's notes
verify: a claimed Oct 8, 2026 IJA publication of the 30-person trial (PubMed 42850968) could not be confirmed.
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