Current Press Releases

To detect weak points of products preferably during the product development phase, and to assess a product’s market potential, usability tests are extremely helpful. Unfortunately, these tests are usually quite expensive and require a lot of time. CoALa (Collaborative Analysis Lab) by Fraunhofer IDMT is an easy to use tool for efficient determination of users’ assessments and preferences. The tool will be presented for the first time at the CeBIT 2015.

Oldenburg/Wedemark. Audio specialist Sennheiser has developed new wireless headphones with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. The RS 195 compensates for age-related hearing loss through personalized sound adjustments that can be adapted to each user’s preferences and individual hearing levels.

»Bringing music of the future into people’s everyday lives« - that is the vision of Stefan Zaradić, the CEO of zaraproduction, a renowned recording studio located in Munich. To turn this vision into reality, Stefan Zaradić has equipped his studio with the necessary technical infrastructure: with the help of Fraunhofer IDMT and Georg Neumann GmbH (a subsidiary of Sennheiser Group), zaraproduction has installed “SpatialSound Wave“, the 3D sound system developed by Fraunhofer IDMT.

Oldenburg. The sound of a cough can provide an initial indication of what therapy is required for treatment. Working on behalf of Boehringer Ingelheim, scientists in the Oldenburg Project Group for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology at the Fraunhofer IDMT have developed an app that analyzes cough noises and provides an assessment of whether the cough is a dry cough or a productive cough. The free app with the name “Silometer Husten-Tester” is available for iPhone and Android.