Inspiration
A lot of hearing aids produced in the past decade are not very efficient at dealing with background noise, especially in a loud setting.
What it does
Reduce background noise so that the dominant sounds are more prominent.
How we built it
Most of our website was built using bootstrap, and our server end computations and data analysis done by python. Our solution consists of the following: Client records with our "hearing aid" or two microphones(mimicking the left and right ear of a hearing aid) and submits audio file to our website. Our website then performs computations by running our python script. It converts .wav files to CSV, and then applies principal component analysis to find the approximation of the first principal component. It is then converted back to .wav and offered to the client as an available download.
Challenges we ran into
It was hard trying to staying awake...like really hard
Accomplishments that we're proud of
EVERYTHING
What we learned
Take breaks. Have fun.
What's next for OptiSound
- Improve the quality of our webpage
- Improved Client-Server Integration
- App for real-time filtering
- Physical hearing-aid product
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