Everyone should be aware of the things that are happening in their home. Yet, for the millions of people living with disabling hearing loss, this still isn’t the case. Recognizing this unmet need, we invented a visual way to significantly change the day-to-day lives of the Deaf and hard of hearing.

See Sound is the world’s first smart home hearing system for the Deaf. When a noise occurs in the home, See Sound verifies the noise against our data library, sourced from sound clips from over 2 million YouTube videos, and translates the sound into a simple visual readout. Now, the Deaf can finally see sound.

See Sound is an AI-learning model powered by millions of sound samples from YouTube that allow it to report sound data with a high level of confidence. Working with Google, we were able to leverage a data set of over 2 million human-labeled 10-second sound clips that were manually analyzed, annotated, and organized into the Google Audio Set. Each type of sound in our data model is comprised of data from several thousand YouTube audio samples. Our machine-learning model was then trained with these data to achieve an incredibly high accuracy level.

The See Sound physical product is all about user experience. There are no wires, and the device plugs directly into your homes wall outlets. With one device per room, the See Sound system is always listening for one of the 75 key sounds in our data library, and alerts the user in real time of the sounds occurring in their home.

Having earned 3 patents and invested $160,000+ over the last 4 years, we’re ready to launch See Sound worldwide. We are petitioning local, state, and federal US governments to introduce this product under the Americans with Disabilities Act’s (ADA’s) scope of accessible technology, which would allow for the government to cover the cost of distributing the See Sound device.