Elevate Your Hearing

We develop breakthrough audio technologies for your hearables.

Occlear® Technology

Natural Own Voice Through Occlusion Cancellation

Existing headphones isolate the user from the environment and make their own voice sound boomy and unnatural. This is due to the occlusion effect which attenuates air-conducted sound and amplifies body-conducted sound.

A headphone user who is unhappy with the unnatural sound of their own voice.

A headphone user who enjoys a natural own-voice sound thanks to the Occlear® technology.

Our Occlear® technology eliminates the occlusion effect, allowing hearable users to perceive their own voice and their environment naturally. Occlear® requires no specialized hardware and can directly be deployed to ANC-ready hearables via a firmware update.

Press play and listen to some live audio of Occlear® in action. This real-time recording was captured inside a user’s ear using our portable, battery-powered demonstrator built on top of the Analog Devices ADAU1787 audio codec.

The environment audio features “Swing Theory” by Freedom Trail Studio, used under CC-BY.

Use case:

Own voice

Environment

Idle Noise Reduction Technology

World-Class Hiss-Free Transparency For Your Hearable

Hearable users often complain about microphone noise or hiss when using transparency mode. It stems from the low-cost miniature microphones used in today’s hearables. To keep the amount of noise under control, manufacturers often have to limit the bandwidth of their transparency mode, effectively making it sound worse.

Our patented Idle Noise Reduction (INR) technology reduces the noise floor of hearable microphones by 10–15 dB, bringing it down to the level of expensive studio microphones. INR gets rid of the hiss and allows hearable manufacturers to achieve world-class transparency with low-cost components. Press play and listen for yourself!

Elevear’s algorithms are currently implemented on the Analog Devices ADAU1860 audio codec and the Cadence Tensilica HiFi 3z DSP.

If you would like to learn about our spatial audio or ANC tuning offerings, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

We Fit Your Product

Our customizable Occlear® and Idle Noise Reduction technologies revolutionize the user experience of a wide range of headphone products.

Hearables

Wear your hearables all day and forget you’re wearing them. Take your voice assistant, music, and friends with you wherever you go.

Communications

Stay focused and sharp in audio and video calls. Enjoy conferences with your team as if you were not wearing headphones.

Hearing Aids

Enjoy a next-generation hearing aid experience. Hear yourself and others naturally even with severe hearing loss and get rid of annoying noises from chewing or swallowing.

AR/VR

Experience truly immersive audio. Blur the line between the real and the virtual world and forget you’re wearing headphones.

Stage & Live

Protect your ears without compromising your stage experience. You no longer have to remove one earpiece to hear your voice or your instrument naturally.

Hearables

Wear your hearables all day and forget you’re wearing them. Take your voice assistant, music, and friends with you wherever you go.

Communications

Stay focused and sharp in audio and video calls. Enjoy conferences with your team and feel like you’re not wearing headphones.

Hearing Aids

Enjoy a next-generation hearing aid experience. Hear yourself and others naturally even with severe hearing loss and get rid of annoying noises from chewing or swallowing.

AR/VR

Experience truly immersive audio. Blur the line between the real and the virtual world and forget you’re wearing headphones.

Stage & Live

Protect your ears without compromising your stage experience. You no longer have to remove one earpiece to hear your voice or your instrument naturally.

What We Offer

We provide well-tested technical solutions to important signal processing challenges for headphones and hearables.

We offer close support starting from early development stages all the way to the integration of our algorithms into your final product.

Our simple, volume-based licensing model scales well with your products.

Customer Value

Unique Selling Point

Hear yourself and your surroundings naturally as if you had nothing in your ears. Make your product stand out in a crowded market and increase its average selling price.

Fast Time to Market

Our algorithms work with ANC-ready headphones without requiring additional hardware. We can help you get them into your product quickly without delaying your product launch.