Take a look at the stars - the "Tiny Observatory" mobile observatory makes it possible. This unusual project offers do-it-yourself astronomy with the help of two telescopes and modern technology.

Researchers from Oldenburg have discovered that lead singers used to be significantly louder in relation to the rest of their band than they are today – and piqued the interest of numerous media outlets with this finding.

Researchers have developed a mathematical model that can simulate directional hearing using considerably less computing power than others – and also describes the processes in the human brain more accurately than ever before.

The door of the Anoechoic Lab on Wechloy Campus opens onto a world of silence. The key feature of the recently renovated acoustics lab is its huge wedge-shaped sound absorbers.

Their common goal is hearing for all: the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all and the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics can look back on a successful decade and look to the future with optimism.

Wiebke Middelberg, a doctoral student at the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics, was recently awarded third place in the ARD/ZDF "Women + Media Technology" 2022 prize, which is endowed with 2,000 euros.

Intelligent hearing aids that work even in difficult acoustic environments – that's what researchers at the university are working on in the Collaborative Research Center "Hearing Acoustics". It now receives funding for another four years.

Speech recognition software is on the rise thanks to smart home systems. Researchers from Oldenburg have now taught an artificial intelligence to hear like an actual human. This could help people with hearing aids in the future.

Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant than the acoustic attenuation caused by the masks.

Background noise, reverberations and acoustic feedback often hamper speech comprehension when technical devices are in use. Hearing researcher Simon Doclo uses mathematical methods to tackle the problem.

Researchers at the University of Oldenburg are using electron microscopy images of SARS-CoV-2 to generate images that for the first time provide a highly detailed impression of the infection process. The new method relies on machine learning.

How can virtual reality help to better investigate complex auditory processes? This is what Oldenburg researchers are investigating in three projects of the priority programm AUDICTIVE.