Project Grant 1047229

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is supporting the development of a real-time speech enhancement and noise reduction software application for the hearing impaired. The $313,372 award to Neural Ear Inc. aims to implement state-of-the-art neural networks to perform noise reduction on mobile devices like the Apple iPhone,...

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, is focused on developing a novel analog processing unit that leverages physics-based deep learning for real-time interference mitigation in dynamic spectrum sharing. The core innovation is an integrated hardware device that can filter out interference between commercial and government users of valuable radio frequency spectrum, enabling...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is funding the development of a deep learning-based speech enhancement algorithm to improve speech intelligibility for people with hearing loss in noisy environments. The $292,543 award to Omnispeech, LLC, with a performance period from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026, aims to create a...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under its Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), awarded a $292,694 project grant to Silicon Audio RF Circulator, LLC (doing business as Silicon Audio, LLC) to develop high signal-to-noise ratio miniature microphones for hearing assistive devices. The project, running from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2026, aims to leverage advances in single-crystal lithium...

This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $300,000 will support the development of omnidirectional 3D spatial reconstruction capabilities using consumer-grade mobile phone audio sensors. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the award to the University of Michigan aims to advance computational modeling of sound perception and effective sound-vision integration. Researchers will collect a large-scale audio-visual dataset using sensor rigs...

This SBIR Phase I project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop an innovative AI-driven platform for interactive language learning designed for young children. The $303,226 award will fund the creation of a personalized, adaptive solution that uses phoneme recognition and learning algorithms to track, assess, and respond to the individual language progress of each child. The platform is designed...

This $304,999 SBIR Phase I grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of a high-frequency multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) underwater acoustic communication system. The project aims to create a real-time, high-data-rate wireless communication technology that minimizes noise pollution and interference with marine life, enabling improved environmental monitoring and safer underwater operations....

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project award to OSO Semiconductor Inc., a minority-owned small business, will develop a new phased array communication technology to achieve lower power consumption, smaller form factors, and more affordable price targets. The $274,992 grant, awarded on December 15, 2023, will fund the development and testing of an ultra-low loss beamforming circuit that can be integrated into a unique low-power phased...

This $256,000 National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I Project Grant will support the development of a haptic glove for real-time speech comprehension by Subtle Technology LLC. The glove aims to convert auditory speech into information perceivable through the skin as a potential supplement to existing techniques like lip reading for the over 466 million people worldwide with hearing loss. Key objectives include developing an intuitive touch-based language representation of words and a...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of a prototype transceiver integrated circuit with wide frequency flexibility. The goal is to create a tunable and programmable radio frequency (RF) transceiver that can achieve the benefits of both hardware-tuned and software-defined radio approaches, addressing limitations in existing software-defined radio technologies....