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medical noise generator

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Hirsch2k:
Hello @all

First of all, please excuse my bad english  ;)
Ok, I think I have to explain this a little bit. My mother is suffering from a heavy tinnitus which is caused by a genetic defect. It seems that the only cure for her is listening to a certain type of noise with headphones which kind of acts like an "anti-noise" to the noise caused by the tinnitus.

I've ordered a Clip+ for her which I rockboxed and which she appreciates very much, because she can listen to sounds from freesound.org (waterfall etc.) and can adjust it with rockbox graphical EQ. This already helps her very much. There are companys which sell some kind of in-ear noise generators for about 1000 (!!) dollars which not everyone can afford. I think it would be a blessing for those who are suffering from tinnitus if they had a device like the clip+ with rockbox which can generate noise like pink or white noise and which they can adjust.

I don't know if this could be an option for a plugin for rockbox, I thought about writing one myself but my programming "skills" are a little knowledge of C and thats it   :'( I think it could help a lot of people that are suffering from tinnitus.

Oh and thank you so much for your great firmware. I don't know why manufactures can't write such a great firmware as their original firmware...

nls:
What is it that you would want to adjust about the noise?
Generating white noise is trivial and i think i saw a relatively simple algo for pink noise somewhere but this could easily be done on a computer and recorded to a file that you could play on the DAP so what benefit would a plugin have over recorded pregenerated noise?

Hirsch2k:
That was what I thought, but one problem is that the tinnitus noise is constantly changing. I'm not suffering from it, so I can generate noises but I don't know if its exactly the right noise because I'm not hearing it. Sometimes a kind of "beep" seems better, it seems to change from day to day, even from one hour to another. Unfortunately my mother is a little older and she can't handle a computer not to mention a noise generator. And when she is in holidays, she don't even have me or a computer  ;)
I also think of the elderly who often suffer from tinnitus aren't computer users or even have a computer. I think they could benefit from it.

NiHaoMike:
How about expand this idea and make it a function generator? It can be very useful for testing audio equipment. It would basically be implementing a DDS in software.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: Hirsch2k on June 02, 2010, 11:06:24 AM ---I also think of the elderly who often suffer from tinnitus aren't computer users or even have a computer. I think they could benefit from it.

--- End quote ---

Not to rag on the idea, but this is completely true in most cases.
Most elderly people I have met/had much to do with struggle with a VCR remote, let alone installing a third party firmware on a DAP (which they probably don't own/see the point in) and maintaining/using it after that.

NiHaoMike's idea of expanding it actually holds some merit, and could be used by more people than just (the probable minor percentage of the population, and even lesser percentage of RB users) people suffering from tinnitus.


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