This project aims to create an App capable of personalised user settings that users can adjust to the different frequencies of sound to suit their individual needs.
AudiSmart will have the special feature of parameter settings for adjusting frequencies, which is important because hearing loss is often associated with an intolerance to loud sounds and noisy spaces.
Technology-Assisted Devices (TAD) are widely used at the workplace by people with disabilities to adapt their handicap and enable them to achieve the same productivity as everyone else.
This is where AudiSmart can work as a hearing aid with the person's Smartphone, which is a common technology platform that can improve skills and capabilities at workstations.
Less than 20% of people with hearing loss use hearing aids, which underlines the glaring need for new approaches to technologies and services with a view to reducing this gap between people with hearing loss and the ones who are capable and willing to do something about it.
With AudiSmart, people with hearing loss can use their headphones, ear buds or earpieces connected by wire or wirelessly to their Smartphones and the App after personalising the settings, which will use specifically designed algorithms to modify the different audio frequencies, amplifying some while reducing others to produce the optimum sound for the user and make the environment much more pleasant.
The SoftLab research group's experience in processing sound and the work that permitted them to create systems such as UC3Mtitling, WhatsCine or GoAll, have also enabled them to develop and evaluate an algorithm for pre-processing and processing acoustic stimuli. It is essential to think of AudiSmart as an algorithm embodied as an App.
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