Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA

• Research cooperations, development services and consulting
• Contract research up to prototype production
• Customer-specific adaptation of Fraunhofer developments
• Measuring and evaluation methods
• Evaluation and user studies

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Building on the existing work, the Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA will be further developed. In particular, the areas of »Connected Health«, »Neurotechnology«, »The Hearing Car«, »HSN4Production« and »Voice Enabled Devices« will be expanded and developed into a portfolio with unique selling points. Summarized information on the further development can be found here.

Founded in 2008 by Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier and Dr. Jens-E. Appell, the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT’s Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA stands for market-oriented research and development with a focus on the following areas:

• Speech and event recognition
• Sound quality and speech intelligibility
• Mobile neurotechnology and systems for networked healthcare

With in-house expertise in the development of hardware and software systems for audio system technology and signal enhancement, the employees at the Oldenburg site are responsible for transferring scientific findings into practical, customer-oriented solutions.

Through scientific cooperation, the institute is closely linked to the Carl von Ossietzky University, Jade University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer. Fraunhofer IDMT is a partner in the »Hearing4all« cluster of excellence and in the Collaborative Research Centre »Hearing Acoustics«.

The further development of the institute’s branch is funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of the German State of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation within the »Vorab« program.