Does your team need to extract and clarify speech or other audio?
Acoustical Focus™ is a user-friendly software application for speech enhancement, audio forensics, and acoustic analysis that enables you to extract and clarify targeted sources in any multichannel recording.
It uses our groundbreaking GLIMPSE™ engine to isolate a specific targeted source (e.g., a desired speaker or conversation) and suppress extraneous masking sources (e.g., competing conversations) so that you can easily understand the desired source.
Acoustical Focus puts the power of the GLIMPSE spatial audio engine in your team’s hands.
Buy Acoustical FocusYou have the evidence, captured by camera or microphone, but are concerned the investigator, judge, or jury won’t be able to quite see or hear it clearly and accurately.
We enhance your images, video, and audio recordings so that they provide as accurate a reproduction of the events as feasible.
Before taking on a case, one of our examiners will be happy to review your media files and provide an initial opinion.
Our team includes two internationally recognized media forensics experts, who have helped develop new forensic techniques and equipment, served on technical and standards committees, and trained many other practitioners in the field over the years.
After our forensic examination is complete, the examiner for your case will provide a report along with any resultant enhanced media. If needed, the examiner can serve as expert witness and explain their findings and results in court.
We excel at engineering solutions to the most challenging acoustic problems. From bespoke microphone array design and manufacturing to advanced research & development, we routinely deal with issues such as background noise, long distances, non-cooperative subjects, and unusual interferences (e.g., wildlife). We also have experience working across diverse acoustic environments, ranging from the atmosphere to subsurface (i.e., geophysics), underwater (i.e., passive SONAR), and even the International Space Station.
If you’re interested in incorporating our technologies into your products, we offer licensing options with various revenue models. We also actively monitor and enforce our license terms and use of our intellectual property to address any unauthorized use.
Below, you will find descriptions of some of the technologies you can license from Wave Sciences and examples of their potential use.
The core of our revolutionary sound field refocusing approach is GLIMPSE, an artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational acoustics engine that extracts audio signals from discrete locations within an acoustic space and generates a unique spatial acoustic fingerprint for that location.
Beyond the forensic applications, other potential uses for Acoustical Focus and GLIMPSE include:
The industry assumption is that even in well-conducted meetings there is around 15% overlap of speech, which causes errors in automatic speaker diarization and recognition engines.
Individuals with hearing loss frequently cannot distinguish individual voices or other sounds in the presence of man-made noise, competing speech, and reverberation. Existing hearing assistive technologies are ineffective beyond about an arm's length away in places like restaurants, cafes, train stations, and airplanes.
Our machine learning spatial audio technology can exploit a voice user interface's “wake word” to focus on the talker giving the command, even from the back seat of an automobile or across a room, focusing past other voices and noise in between. Asking everyone else to be quiet while interacting with a voice assistant is no longer necessary, which may propel the use of voice assistants into new areas, such as factory floors, airplanes, and "big box" retail stores.
Government agencies around the world rely on Wave Sciences' technologies in forensic, communications, search & rescue, first responder, officer safety, hostage rescue, VIP protection, detention centers, and other applications.
People, like electrons, act differently when they are observed. Wave Sciences has invented a variety of microphone array systems to assist with hearing without disrupting the conversation. Some of these systems are wearable, while others are modular for easy scaling or lower power for long-life with minimal power requirements. Some even project audio in targeted directions or places in 3D space.
Wearable hearing garment
Most notably, Wave Sciences' patented smart garment technologies can listen not only outward (to others) and upward (to one's own voice), but also inwards (to one’s internal organs, joints, and implants) to enable solutions such as telemedicine, post-operative condition monitoring, and home health care problems.