More than 26 person-years of research has culminated in a software solution which could give your smartphone, tablet or other multi-microphone device the assistive technology required to disrupt the multi-billion dollar hearing market.
By isolating specific speech signals and separating them from the background noise, aiso™ allows individual voices to be heard clearly, whether it’s on video calls, in recordings, or in real time in social situations.
81% of 40 – 64 year olds struggle to hear speech in noisy environments. Hearing aids and other existing solutions can actually make the issue worse – based on beamforming, they are imprecise and indiscriminate. Even with noise suppression added, competing speech is not removed.
To be effective, hearing solutions need to distinguish the speech of interest from background noise as well as from other speech sources. Aiso™ Low Latency technology separates individual speech signals and suppresses background noise. It improves the speech recognition threshold by 16 dB and provides up to 26 dB of noise suppression.
This tabletop device demonstrates the ability of aiso™ for Hearing to separate speech and suppress noise. The device seamlessly follows conversations in automatic mode or allows the user to select particular sources of interest in focus mode
Over 200 million people have untreated hearing loss and need assistance with hearing, but are not helped by traditional aids.*
Developed by the leading experts in multi-microphone audio solutions, aiso™ for Hearing provides the answer to unlocking this huge new market. Whether it’s embedded on a smartphone, a tablet, a tabletop hearing product or some other consumer device. Aiso™ can overcome the limitations of traditional audio processing techniques to provide world beating assistive listening technology.
Improvement in Speech Recognition Threshold
Of Noise Suppression
Latency
Artefacts or Distortion
Improving Speech-to-Noise Ratio by 30 dB
5ms latency perfect for assistive listening technology
Does not require a dedicated hardware codec or DSP. Supports any size / shape mic array.
Automatic and manual source selection enabling a seamless user experience
*AudioTelligence & Harris Interactive Research – Incidence of Cocktail Party Problem. – In August 2020 AudioTelligence commissioned Harris Interactive, a MRS Accredited Company Partner and ISO 27001 certified market research agency to validate the size of the “Cocktail Party Problem”. The research was commissioned in the UK, US, Germany, China and Japan with 1000 participants aged 40-64 years old from each country. The outcomes indicated that 81% (558 million) of participants self-identified with the cocktail party problem and 40% of these people (220 million) were actively looking for a solution.