On 2 January 2012, the DFG research group "Individualised Hearing Acoustics" began its work at the University of Oldenburg. Over the next three years, the scientists, led by PD Dr Volker Hohmann, will be pursuing the goal of making "hearing for all" possible at all times, even in acoustically challenging situations. The German Research Foundation has set up the research group for three years and is funding it with a total of 2.1 million euros.

A total of ten scientists from the University of Oldenburg, the HörTech Center of Competence and Jade University of Applied Sciences are working together in the "Individualised Hearing Acoustics" research group. Using methods from acoustics, psychoacoustics and signal processing, they want to solve the fundamental problems that prevent better speech communication and "hearing for all".

In order to find better solutions, the scientists will be researching hearing models and algorithms over the next few years and developing prototype hearing systems based on them. This technology should make acoustic perception predictable and controllable in as many situations as possible for a large number of individual user profiles. The prototypes will serve as the basis for future systems that will help to optimise acoustic perception for all people in all acoustic situations in the long term.

To the website of the research group