• Jane Martin
• Aneena Thomas
• Angel Liza Sabu
• Asst. Prof Mereen Thomas

In today’s world, a high percentage of youngsters faces the problem of hearing impairment. According to various studies more than 18% of world population is suffering from the same. Although hearing aid is widely used and helps the impaired for communication, these devices alone are not satisfactory as the user cannot use earphones to listen to any audio. Because of their impairment they are deprived of using headphones or earphones for entertainment purposes like normal youngsters do. Even though many of them use hearing aids as a solution, many people are not comfortable with using them and using hearing aids may result in some limitation of their personal life like use of earphones. It will make these patients unable listening to music and watching movies using earphones in public. So as a solution to this problem we came up with an idea of using smart phones along with earphones as a hearing aid. Thus, we are planning to develop an application that can be used to boost volume for them, in each ear separately, so that they can hear their surroundings clearly. It also includes an additional feature where one can also access the media like audio or video, maintaining the custom boosted volumes. This helps the user to listen to music or watch videos as well.

Hearing Impairment, Hearing Aid Application

" SoundMate: A Hearing Aid Application ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.271-274, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCV06054.pdf

" SoundMate: A Hearing Aid Application ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp271-274, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCV06054.pdf