On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]>wrote:

> I help a NGO in Bangalore that works on identifying disabilities, one of
> which is deafness. I learn that deafness is scientifically measured by
> seeing responses to pure tone sounds from 250 to 1500Hz. Currently, special
> equipment needs to be bought and is not very handy.
>
> It occurred to me that this could be easily achieved using mobile phones.
> Can some one on this list or their friends help out with this?
>
> Need:
> A simple UI driven program to choose frequencies from a radio button list
> with a drop down list of time period for which the pure tone needs to play.
> Possible inclusions - volume control, spectrum sweep across the whole set
> of frequencies with display showing the frequency being played etc.
>


I would love to help.
I can develop the app both for Android and iOS.

The issues are:

   - Though the software can produce perfect perfect tones, the speaker of
   the mobile phone will be incapable of handling these low frequencies.
   - Suggest we take the output off the audio out and provide a super low
   cost amplifier and a speaker. A typical sub woofer circuit is specially
   tuned for these low frequencies and are available in plenty in Ritchie
   street.

If anyone else have suggestions, please add to this thread.

I also believe this can be a nice small Open source project for both
software and hardware.


Regards,
Arun Venkataswamy
http://wondroussky.blogspot.in/
http://wondrouscode.blogspot.in/

"கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு" - ஔவையார்
Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean
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