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Women Tech EU Grant Application: Improving Hearing Aid Exprience for Hearing Aid users.

Project description

New hearing aid technology

In today’s fast-paced world, individuals with hearing impairment face significant challenges, particularly in environments with background noise or multiple speakers. Recognising this problem, WOID AS, a welfare and tech company, has embarked on a project to transform the hearing aid industry. With the support of the EU-funded Woid IHAE 23-24 project, the company aims to digitalise assistive technology through a smartphone application, eliminating the need for external microphones or speech enhancers. By leveraging cutting-edge audio transfer technology and harnessing the power of machine learning for noise reduction, it will provide a satisfying sound experience directly through smartphones. This simplifies the user experience and enhances accessibility by making the technology more economically and physically attainable.

Objective

WOID AS consists of entrepreneurs; Mariel Ellingsen, the CEO, and Ivanna Ustymenko, the COO. Together they have broad knowledge and expertise regarding tech- and business development. WOID AS is a welfare and tech company. Compassion, inclusion, and social equality are our core values. We must put people at the center of development to create value in society.

Hearing aids are often paired with external microphones or speech enhancers for situations with a lot of background noise or
multiple speakers. The company creates an application that digitalizes this assistive technology. Taking advantage of smartphones, we remove excess devices while providing a satisfactory sound experience. This is done by implementing cutting-edge technology for audio transfer while utilizing machine learning for noise reduction on commodity hardware.

This solution will become more economically and physically accessible than the ones offered on the market today.

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WOID AS
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€ 75 000,00
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BOLIGNUMMER H0301 SKOLEBAKKEN 16B
0486 OSLO
Norway

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Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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