Fraunhofer Institut für Digitale Medientechnologie IDMT Institutsteil HSA
Booth number: 14916/5
www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/de/hsa.html
About us
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, headquartered in Germany, is one of the world’s leading organizations for applied research. The goal of Fraunhofer IDMT's Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology HSA is to implement scientific findings on auditory perception of normal and impaired hearing in technological applications. Scientists carry out applied research and development on behalf of industrial companies and public institutions in the fields of telecommunications, multimedia, health and care services, smart homes and smart cities, automotive, civil security and industrial production.
The Oldenburg Branch was established in Oldenburg in 2008 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier and Dr. Jens-E. Appell as a project group of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT. 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«.
Address
Marie-Curie-Str. 2
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
E-mail: annette.mehlhoop@idmt.fraunhofer.de
Phone: +49 171 1264369
Internet: www.idmt.fraunhofer.de/de/hsa.html
Contact person:
Christian Rollwage
Head of Audio Signal Enhancement
E-mail: christian.rollwage@idmt.fraunhofer.de
Menno Müller
Head of Audio System Technology
E-mail: menno.mueller@idmt.fraunhofer.de
Christian Colmer
Head of Marketing and Communication Oldenburg Branch HSA
E-mail: christian.colmer@idmt.fraunhofer.de
Products & Services
Your sound, in every situation: Intuitive sound personalisation
Everyone hears differently. “YourSound” of Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany enables users of audio devices to adjust audio to their own acoustic preferences – as easy as never before!
Making dialogs accessible for everyone: “Listening Effort Meter” helps in post-productions to avoid poor speech intelligibility
The “Listening Effort Meter” (LE-Meter) developed by Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany, allows sound engineers to visualize listening effort during mixing and conduct post-mixing checks to optimize audio quality. Dedicated algorithms provide recommendations for action based on an objective analysis of listening effort in real time.
Bringing headphones into networks: “Minikraken” is an AES-67 capable headphone amplifier
Audio over IP (AoIP) is the transport of digital audio as data packets over standard IP networks (typically Ethernet). Our headphone amplifier demo “Minikraken”lets you route, distribute, and record multi‑channel audio using regular network switches instead of traditional audio cabling. Audio Professionals benefit from a simple and cost-effective way to integrate the AES-67 technical standard for AoIP.
Your sound, in every situation: Intuitive sound personalisation
Everyone hears differently. “YourSound” of Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany enables users of audio devices to adjust audio to their own acoustic preferences – as easy as never before!
The technology relies on the presentation of music signals, which users can adjust to their preference with a simple user interface. Once set, the individual presets have a positive effect on the overall sound.
The technological concept for fast and individual sound adaptation has been integrated into the multimedia system of vehicles from the Mercedes-Benz Group AG as well as Sennheiser consumer headphones together with Sonova Holding AG.
Find out more about “YourSound”
Making dialogs accessible for everyone: “Listening Effort Meter” helps in post-productions to avoid poor speech intelligibility
The “Listening Effort Meter” (LE-Meter) developed by Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany, allows sound engineers to visualize listening effort during mixing and conduct post-mixing checks to optimize audio quality. Dedicated algorithms provide recommendations for action based on an objective analysis of listening effort in real time.
The technology has already found its way from scientific development into commercial application, for example integrated into RTW’s TMxCore measuring device and NUGEN Audio’s plug-in DialogCheck, and is intended to bring about improvements in media production on a broad scale.
Find out more about our software solutions to measure, display and optimize speech intelligibility:
Bringing headphones into networks: “Minikraken” is an AES-67 capable headphone amplifier
Audio over IP (AoIP) is the transport of digital audio as data packets over standard IP networks (typically Ethernet). Our headphone amplifier demo “Minikraken”lets you route, distribute, and record multi‑channel audio using regular network switches instead of traditional audio cabling. Audio Professionals benefit from a simple and cost-effective way to integrate the AES-67 technical standard for AoIP.