Mobile technology that brings personalized audio into your life

Informazioni relative al progetto

TuneFork

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 836601

DOI

10.3030/836601

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 15 Novembre 2018

Data di avvio 1 Dicembre 2018

Data di completamento 31 Maggio 2019

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Costo totale

€ 71 429,00

Contributo UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinato da

LISTENING APPLICATIONS
Israel

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TuneFork (Mobile technology that brings personalized audio into your life)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2018-12-01 al 2019-05-31

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

TuneFork is an audio personalization technology that delivers an optimal hearing experience, improving the quality of life for people with hearing loss and seniors.

Hearing loss affects more than 460 million people around the world making their everyday life challenging. Many of them experience difficulty using their smart devices such as smartphones, smart homes, smart assistants, smart automotive and more, all of which rely on, or are in the process of transitioning to, voice command operation.

TuneFork enables the user to perform a simple hearing test and characterizes the user's specific hearing problem. The test results, paired with flexible algorithm which adjust frequency response, create a personally-optimized, custom-made audio experience for the user – a Personalized Audio Profile.

TuneFork is a completely software solution that can be integrated into any operating system and can personally optimize all audio content: phone calls, smart assistant voice, GPS instructions, music, videos, voice messages, and more.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

We have released the first version of the fully developed product – as an SDK we are licensing to other apps. Our SDK allow the host app to perform a full hearing test, convert the results into personal audio filter, and then adjust all the digital audio content in the app according to the personal profile.

We have tested the technology on more than 20 users with hearing loss. We conducted a trial with the HLAA – the Hearing Loss Association of America, the biggest global organization in this field. The feedback we received from test subjects was great –

1) 91% of the subjects reported that they would use the test periodically to track their hearing
2) Tunefork’s solution was reported to add clarity to speech, add overtones to music tracks and generally enrich audio. It was preferred by 86% of our test subjects to regular sound.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

We have more than 10,000 downloads of our demo-app and thousands of users completed the hearing-test and received their results.

We participated in several conferences, events and competitions – in Israel, Europe and China – and raised awareness to hearing problems and technological solutions that improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss and elders.

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