Audiopro

Equipments for professionals of hearing

Our last video on CarlW project

Archean Technologies fully enters the world of social innovation by developping a new IT tool for the fine-tuning of hearing aids and destinated to people suffering from age-related hearing loss (presbycusis).

The system CarlW responds to a major challenge in our modern societies. Indeed, within the context of an aging demography hearing losses concern a very important - and growing - part of the population. It is now totally admitted and scientifically validated that hearing aids do not only allow elderly people to keep a social life but also to stimulate and thus preserve their cognitive abilities, delaying their entry in a dependency stage for several years.

A revolution for the fine-tuning of hearing-aids

It is designed to replace manual, low reproductible, long and tiring testing methods by rapid, automatic, objective and sensitive tests based on the latest automatic speech recognition techniques.

This major change will make hearing aids accessible to a much larger part of the population. It will reduce the tuning costs and also permit much more precise and speech-oriented fittings.

Collaboration and supports

This invention is born after three years of academic research joining together IT researchers (IRIT, Toulouse, France), researchers in psycholinguistics and phonetics (Octogone lab. and LETRA lab / MSHS-T CNRS, Toulouse, France) as well as ENT specialists (Purpan Hospital, Toulouse, France).

These rigourous works were supported by the Midi-Pyrénées region and the French Agency for Research (Agence nationale pour la recherche - ANR), and led to several scientific publications (e.g. in the proceedings of Interspeech 2015: http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/i15_0663.html or in the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues: http://www.atala.org/Comparaison-de-mesures-perceptives, other publications being in progress).

CarlW, soon on the market  

Today CarlW entered its development phase, which will lead to a fully functionnal and marketable prototype by the end of 2016. Archean Technologies being deeply engaged for keeping its production local, a main objective of CarlW is to create employment in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Videos presenting our works :

Trailer CarlW : Un nouvel outil inédit pour les audioprothésistes

Archean Innovation // Mesure de la compréhension de la parole