Can hearing aids take out unwanted background noise?
No. Plain and simple. Any other answer to this question is simply untrue. For a hearing aid to be able to take out background noise, it would have to be able to recognize which voice you wanted to hear and suppress all others. For example, if I were going to social hour after church (about 40 people in the church basement) and I wanted to talk with my son, the hearing aid would somehow need to know that his voice was the only voice I wanted to hear while tuning out all others. Not only is it currently impossible to do that, but even if it was, what would the hearing aid do if I then decided to talk to my wife? No, hearing aids can’t remove background noise, but if we do our job right, they can do something even BETTER. Recently we’re finding more and more, that by spending the necessary time and applying the technology appropriately, we’re able to deliver a signal to your brain that, when coupled with the other ear, is helping people to hear quite well in noise by working with the best
