The Venture Forum’s #5minPitch Event

June 1, 2018 By adam@pullmanmarketing.com

Members of Audio by Design won the prestigious Venture Forum 5 Minute Pitch event. Using algorithms developed by STAR Analytical Services, Audio by Design presented DTangle, which provides hearing protection while retaining all-important situational awareness. To hear a demonstration of this software, note the samples below as they demonstrate the dynamic scrubbing process.

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Hear What I Want

STAR announces the award of a National Institutes of Health small-business grant, “Hear What I Want: An Acoustically Smart Personalized Common Room”. This will improve hearing healthcare by developing a hearing aid-compatible system that will identify the location and sounds of interfering acoustic sources and deliver an enhanced rendition of speech sounds from which interfering sources have been “scrubbed”.

Listeners with hearing deficits find noisy rooms, such as many classrooms and the common areas in assisted-living centers, burdensome because speech is hard to understand in rooms with multiple interfering sound sources.

This product will use multiple microphones permanently placed in a classroom or other complex space to isolate individual sound sources, identify and remove echoes, and upon request deliver personalized enhanced speech signals, from which masking sounds had been removed, to the ears of multiple listeners in the room via their cellphones and preferred listening devices.

Click here for an example.