Following the FDA’s recent landmark decision to allow the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids, CBS58 and Spectrum News interviewed Yi Hu, associate professor, electrical engineering, and Santosh Yegnaraman, a PhD candidate and a member of Hu’s team, on Aug. 31.
In preparation for the revolution in hearing technology, Hu had developed a prototype of a hearing aid and a companion Bluetooth app he hopes to bring to mass market by 2023.
“With this new FDA guideline, I would expect that more people would start using the devices because this dramatically lowers the cost and removes the barrier to access audiologists,” Hu told CBS 58.