BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark Kaal, CEO of Samplified Audio, today
announced that his company won the 2017 National Science
Foundation's Hearables Challenge with their solution called
Clementine Wear.
The Hearables Challenge was announced in April 2017 with the goal to find innovative
solutions to understanding speech in noisy situations that can be
implemented in consumer audio products, such as hearables and
wearables. The submissions were judged by a panel of experts from
the National Science Foundation, NineSigma and NASA with support
from the Linguistic Data Consortium of the University of Pennsylvania. Entries were judged on
their speech-in-noise handling, latency (audio delay) and the
technology's application potential to consumer grade devices. The
cloud/mobile based Clementine Wear Audio platform will be
officially presented to the world at the UbiComp 2017 conference on
Maui, Hawaii on Sept. 14, 2017.
The first product developed by Samplified Audio, called the
SnowOwl, with the award-winning Clementine Wear inside, will be
launched on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo on Sept. 6, 2017. This product is suitable for
anybody interested in listening to personalized audio. In other
words, sound entering the ears that matches an individual's hearing
profile, which is almost as unique as a fingerprint. The SnowOwl is
not just for listening to personalized audio from a music player;
it also can serve as a listening device. Sound amplified where it
needs to be and noise canceled or noise filtered from the direction
you don't want it from. The SnowOwl is supported by the Clementine
Wear app for iOS and Android smartphones.
The use of hearables and audio wearables by people experiencing
mild-to-moderate hearing loss is expected to grow substantially now
that President Trump signed the new Over-The-Counter (OTC) Hearing
Aid Law on Aug. 18, 2017.
ABOUT SAMPLIFIED AUDIO
The developer of Clementine Wear is Samplified Audio, a
mini-national company that brought together a wealth of experience
in audiology, (wireless) audio engineering, (embedded) software
development, hearing product design, manufacturing and
distribution. Samplified was originally founded in Toronto by hearing industry veterans
Mario Augustyniak and Mark Kaal, and expanded to Belgium and the
Netherlands. More recently an office was opened in
Boulder, Colorado and Samplified
is preparing the opening of an office in Hong Kong.
Samplified CEO, Mark Kaal: "We
expect two to three manufacturers of hearing aids and wireless
consumer audio products to announce products with Clementine Wear
Inside within the next 60 days. We initially have a strong focus on
Asian manufacturers, but interest levels in the U.S. and EU markets
are strong as well, especially now the OTC Hearing Aid Law is
official. To effectively deal with the growing supply and demand,
we have started to plan for the scale up of the company in the next
6-9 months."
Christopher Schweitzer, Ph.D.
(Audiology), Hearables Challenge Project leader: "After we
completed all the formal requirements for the Challenge with normal
hearing subjects, the team wanted to push further. So we added a
small number of additional subjects with mild to moderate hearing
loss for additional testing. We were pleased to see that all scored
improvement with Clementine Wear processing. We were
delighted."
Media Contact
Mr. Mark Kaal
Phone: (+31) 6 26 03 29 72
Email: mkaal@samplified-audio.com
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Related Links
NSF Hearables Challenge
Clementine Wear Indiegogo landing page
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