EarMachine Overview
What is EarMachine?
EarMachine is an app that helps users listen to the sounds they want to hear. It is designed to be helpful in various situations, from noisy restaurants to watching TV at home. The app is funded by the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
Features
- Simple Interface, Complex Processing: EarMachine has a simple interface that allows users to adjust over 150 signal processing parameters with a simple swipe of their finger on a wheel. The mapping from wheel position to parameter values is based on a large-scale analysis of the hearing status of over 10,000 people.
- EarShare: An intelligent recommendation engine: EarMachine contains a recommendation engine called EarShare that listens to the sounds around the user and recommends wheel positions based on large-scale analyses of hearing abilities and the user's app usage. The recommendations improve the more the user uses the app.
- Listen to whatever sounds you want: EarMachine allows users to choose whether they want to listen to the microphone in their iOS device or earbuds (iOS 7 only). Users can also listen to songs/podcasts in their music library.
- State of the Art Signal Processing: The signal processing in EarMachine is similar to what is used in most hearing instruments. It includes a wide-dynamic range multiband compressor, a multiband limiter, and an expander to ensure that quiet sounds are amplified while protecting users from loud sounds. Users can also use EarMachine as a sound level meter (works best with phone microphone).
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Product Details and Description of
this app is an app that makes it easy to listen to the sounds that you want to hear. Those sounds can be picked up by the microphone in your phone or earbuds, and can be played from your music library! this app is helpful in situations ranging from talking in noisy restaurants to watching television at home. This work is funded by the National Institutes of Health (of the United States of America). Features: Simple Interface, Complex Processing With a simple interface, this app, allows you to adjust more that 150 signal processing parameters with a simple swipe of your finger on a wheel. The mapping from wheel position to parameter values is the result of a large-scale analysis of the hearing status of more than 10,000 people. EarShare: An intelligent recommendation engine Ear Machine also contains a recommendation engine called EarShare. This engine will listen to the sounds around you and use that information to recommend wheel positions. The recommendations are based on both large-scale analyses of hearing abilities as well as your usage of the app. EarShare will give better recommendations the more you use the app. Listen to whatever sounds you want. Ear Machine allows you to choose whether you want to listen to the microphone in your iOS device, or the one in your earbuds (iOS 7 only). You can also use Ear Machine to listen to songs/podcasts in your music library. State of the Art Signal Processing The signal processing in Ear Machine is similar to what is used in most hearing instruments. A wide-dynamic range multiband compressor ensures that quiet sounds are amplified, while protecting you from sounds that are already loud. A multiband limiter provides further protection from loud sounds. An expander makes sure that very quiet sounds (e.g., refrigerator hum) are not annoying. You can even use Ear Machine as a sound level meter (works best with phone microphone).
Top Reviews
By Nimbleswitch
WHAT A BOON!! SAVED ME!!
I'm sitting at a 4-day business conference, as I write this. One of my hearing aids is entirely nonfunctional; the other needs adjustment badly. My first day at the conference: The small meeting rooms have no mics; the large room does, but in both cases, all I'm hearing from the speakers is "Mrrr-brrr-nunn-bunn-sbee-brrr-gnn." And I'm gonna have four days of this? I'm considering spending the four days in the hotel bar. (Might as well!) I'm thinking, "Someone should invent an app for this." Then I'm thinking, "Hey, maybe someone did." So I go to the app store and ... WHAM!! There it is: Ear Machine. WOW!! Loud! CLEAR! I was just hoping for a volume boost, but there's a separate, adjustable high-frequency boost as well. Sibilent sounds are suddenly back. "Wrist" no longer sounds like "rift." I'm hearing and understanding every single word from every speaker. EVERY word, clear as a bell. My hearing aids, when working properly, were not this good in a conference-room situation. Saved the entire conference week for me. WOW, again! And many thanks!
By Mark 11345679964433
👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏼👂🏽
Love how simple it is to use and sound Quality is excellent. Like the option to switch mics between phone and headset. And unlike other hearing apps this one don’t try to hustle you for money every other time you use it. Also there is a reason why wired headsets are used Bluetooth headsets have horrible sound Quality on a analog type system for hearing. Wired is the only way to go for High quality live sound.
By morxley
Best of class
I have been trying four hearing apps on iphone X w/Apple earbuds and also a few hearing aids. My issue is not volume but clarity with multiple talkers, words in songs, talking room to room, etc. Ear Machine (on iPhone X) runs flawlessly and does this quicker, easier, and more effectively—without fiddling with settings, profiles, etc. For me it is as good or better than the $2K-$6K hearing aids.
