Eyeglasses with Built in Artificial Intelligence Hearing Augmentation

Augmented eyeglasses comprising:

• a frame front comprising a pair of corrective lenses;
• and
• a first temple piece and a second temple piece, each temple piece connected to the frame front, and each temple piece structured to store temple hardware, the temple hardware comprising:
• an audio system comprising:
• at least one microphone configured to capture environmental sound and convert the environmental sound into received audio signals;
• an amplifier;
• and
• a speaker positioned within the temple piece and oriented to project sound towards an ear canal of a wearer based on input audio signals;
• a processing system comprising:
• a microcontroller configured to input the received audio signals from the at least one microphone and to apply one or more pre-processing functions to the received audio signals;
• and
• an edge processor configured to apply at least one artificial-intelligence model to the pre-processed received audio signals and generate assistive audio signals;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed cause the processing system, cause the processing system to:
• receive, at the microcontroller and from the at least one microphone, received audio signals representing an environment surrounding the augmented eyeglasses;
• apply, with the microcontroller, one or more pre-processing functions to the received audio signals;
• applying, using the edge processor, at least one artificial intelligence model to the pre-processed, received audio signals to identify a sound modification based on a sound profile and generate assistive audio signals that include the sound modification;
• amplify, using the amplifier, the assistive audio signals;
• and
• generate, using the speaker, sound waves for assistive audio for the wearer based on the assistive audio.