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Development of Smartphone Mobile Apps for Hearing Aid Using Sound Frequency Translation

  • Journal of Knowledge Information Technology and Systems
  • Abbr : JKITS
  • 2018, 13(1), pp.69-76
  • DOI : 10.34163/jkits.2018.13.1.007
  • Publisher : Korea Knowledge Information Technology Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Interdisciplinary Research
  • Published : February 28, 2018

Jae Ho Kim 1

1강릉원주대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

As the global population is aging, the use of hearing aids is expanding, and the demand for technologically advanced digital hearing aids is steadily increasing compared to conventional analog hearing aids, and major manufacturers are increasingly adopting digital hearing aids it is focusing. As the capacity of smartphone batteries improves, the duration of hearing aid apps is also increasing. In addition, since wireless handsets are linked to smartphones, smartphones have a sufficient environment to implement hearing aid apps. Therefore, if a smartphone is used to implement the function of a hearing aid, it is possible to construct a high quality hearing aid even at a low construction cost. The strength of implementing a hearing aid app on a smart phone is that it can implement intelligent hearing aids by implementing various types of algorithms. For example, you can implement a variety of additional features such as noise reduction, high frequency conversion, acoustic pattern recognition, intelligent volume control, feedback cancellation, and speech enhancement. Since there is no additional hardware cost to implement these functions, it is possible to implement intelligent hearing aids at low cost, and it is believed that hearing aids can be supplied to more hearing impaired people. In this trend, we want to develop smart phone apps that are cheaper and more versatile than standalone hearing aids by utilizing the sound processing function of smartphones.

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