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EssilorLuxottica acquires AI hearing firm Pulse Audition

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Benjamin Fitzgerald Published
January 4, 2025

Eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica has acquired Pulse Audition, a French startup delivering AI-based noise reduction and voice enhancement, through algorithms allowing people with hearing impairment to better understand speech, even in noisy environments.

By integrating Pulse Audition’s proprietary technologies, expertise in AI software development, embedded AI, and audio signal processing, as well as the French start-up’s team, EssilorLuxottica said it aimes to enhance its proprietary hardware and software and improve the quality of its hearing aid solutions.

The acquisition of Pulse Audition and its hearing technologies also aligns with the eyewear group’s strategy of honing in on the hearing solutions space in recent years, and marks a natural expansion from its acquisition of Nuance Hearing, in 2023.