Design Guidance, Engineering, & Product Development
Specializing in Systems Reliant on Acoustic, Audio & Time Series Data
past clients include:
past clients include:
Criterion Acoustics, Zoox, Cruise Automation, Sonic Sphere
Acoustic Sensing, Acoustic Scene Understanding & AI
From sensor hardware architecture and design, to algorithm design & development
Our experience spans multiple embedded targets, low power small footprint classifiers at the edge - through large application layer models.
Psychoacoustic understanding of human acoustic listening is also informative when selecting timescales and frequency resolution in pipeline design.
Services include thoughtful simulation, data augmentation and synthesis. Fundamental physical acoustics may be applied to grow dataset size while reducing data collection costs - in the end improving performance metrics.
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Safety Critical Audio & Acoustic Regulatory/Legal Compliance
Expert Witness services
Authoring contractual agreements between adjacent parties & verifying compliance
Compliance to regulatory standards
Past Projects Include:
- Assessment of intelligibility of BART PA system and compliance with NFPA 72
- Collaboration with sound designers on autonomous vehicle exterior sounds, realizing their vision while ensuring compliance with FMVSS 141
- Advocating for Poconos Casino's new venue development through simulation of impact on residential neighbors
- Enforcing noise agreements between Universal Studios and adjacent residences, and similarly between the Four Seasons Hotel and adjacent Mandalay Bay Pool Club
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Spatial Audio & Purpose Built Multichannel Systems
Spatial audio speaker reproduction system design - as well as ambisonic recording, spatial sound design, and expressive content creation.
Well honed system + content with careful encoding/decoding truly transports the listener.
End to End Voice Interface Development
When interfacing with 3rd Party vendors in developing your voice interface there are many blocks to consider:
Wake-up word,
Speech Recognition,
Natural Language Processing,
Large Language Models,
and Text to Speech
Have someone in your corner advocating for flexibile architectures which allow forward looking flexibility.
Let's ensure your product starts and stays on the cutting edge by avoiding being trapped in walled gardens that are disincentivized from continuous improvement.
Wake-up word,
Speech Recognition,
Natural Language Processing,
Large Language Models,
and Text to Speech
Have someone in your corner advocating for flexibile architectures which allow forward looking flexibility.
Let's ensure your product starts and stays on the cutting edge by avoiding being trapped in walled gardens that are disincentivized from continuous improvement.
The industry is moving incredibly fast in this space.
We will develop a dataset based on your hardware, processing architecture, and ambient noise in your use case - and quantitatively vet all the speech recognition engines being considered.
If your hardware has specific noise source considerations, it's particularly important to evaluate performance and ensure the engine and preprocessing will provide the best results.
We understand that Voice Interfaces are a significant part of your brand.
We will develop a dataset based on your hardware, processing architecture, and ambient noise in your use case - and quantitatively vet all the speech recognition engines being considered.
If your hardware has specific noise source considerations, it's particularly important to evaluate performance and ensure the engine and preprocessing will provide the best results.
We understand that Voice Interfaces are a significant part of your brand.
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Acoustically Critical Mechanical Design
Design consulting from first principals, or based on simulation. Based on scattering theory, propagation models and isolation principals: ensure your acoustic path is optimal, and appropriate isolation is in place.
Co-Develop a simulation and verification plan to refine your mechanical design within industrial design and cost constraints.
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Architectural Acoustics
Room design and acoustic treatment design or specification for acoustically critical spaces like listening rooms, recording studios, restaurants, meeting and performance spaces
Isolation between acoustically sensitive adjacencies
Mechanical and HVAC system evaluation and design to ensure appropriate background noise levels for each rooms
Highlighted Projects Include:
• Acoustic treatment specification for 16 apple stores
• Room shaping and acoustic treatment specification for 35 recording studios for Warner Music Group, including custom software to streamline the design process
• Meeting Pod isolation for the Apple Campus
• Custom design of binary-absorber-diffusers for MacEwan University's recording arts school.
• Acoustic treatment specification for 16 apple stores
• Room shaping and acoustic treatment specification for 35 recording studios for Warner Music Group, including custom software to streamline the design process
• Meeting Pod isolation for the Apple Campus
• Custom design of binary-absorber-diffusers for MacEwan University's recording arts school.
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