July Meetup: Hearables and assistive technologies

On the 1st of July we will host the next iteration of our monthly Audio Developer Meetup where Peggy Sylopp from sinceare will be presenting her work on personalization approaches for hearables, and Vlad Litvinenko will demo 'Spotykach', a looping playground.
See below for details!

As always, there will be a chance to network over drinks and pizza. Anyone interested in Audio development is welcome!

Doors open at 18:00, talks start at 18:15.

Please note: Attendance is strictly limited to people who have RSVP'd.

Talk details:
Can users train their own audio system? - Peggy Sylopp
In this talk, we present Sinceare’s closed-loop personalization approach for hearables. Instead of relying on predefined fitting rules or static presets, users teach the system how it should sound through interaction and feedback. These preferences are transformed into personalized machine-learning models that learn how to control existing audio processing algorithms according to individual preferences.

Rather than replacing audio DSP algorithms, the generated models act as an adaptive control layer that continuously adjusts algorithm parameters based on user-specific listening preferences.

Based on more than eight years of research and a recent study conducted with Fraunhofer IDMT and Charité, we will share insights into user-driven audio model generation, human-in-the-loop machine learning, and the path from research prototype to future embedded hearable deployment.

Spotykach, a looping playground - Vlad Litvinenko

Vlad is a Berlin based software developer doing e-commerce by day, bleeping machines at night and sometimes music in between.

The talk is about device they’ve recently built. It’s “Spotykach”, a looping playground, as they call it. It started from an attempt to do a simple Beat-Repeat kind of plugin, but then evolved into a community project within Synthux Academy with people from different backgrounds and countries.