promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

Ph.D./M.Sc. Design of an Electronic Earpiece With Embedded Hearing Assessment and Restoration

Application deadline: Wed 01 Jun 2022

The goal of this project is to design an electronic earpiece that can provide a robust way to monitor users’ hearing capabilities over time, as well as to automatically compensate for mild hearing loss through multi-band amplification, dynamic compression and equalization of audio playback. Currently, CRITIAS has experience in designing electroacoustic earpieces with calibrated microphone and receivers [1], and has further developed methods for precise measurement of in-ear levels [2-3]. The student will work on the development of audio equalization filters as well as multi-band dynamic compressors for increased speech intelligibility for users with mild hearing losses in low ambient noise conditions.

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The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in to promote development and progress of acoustics in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. EAA gathers 33 societies of acoustics and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe (ISE)