BeHear is a truly personal, concept Bluetooth® headset featuring advanced signal processing with built-in hearing enhancement and assistive listening technology. It can be tuned to address your specific hearing capabilities for all applications, such as voice communication via mobile phone, listening to music, in-person conversations, ambient sounds, etc.

1. Introducing
BeHear™
A SELF-TUNABLE, TRULY PERSONAL BLUETOOTH®
HEADSET WITH HEARING ENHANCEMENT CAPABILITIES
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Conceptualizing the vision of Alango, Ltd.

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BeHear Elevates Your Hearing
Enjoyment and Comprehension
 Personalizes hearing, enhances sound for:
 phone calls
 streamed music
 conversations
 the environment
 Built-in hearing assessment
 provides maximum hearing personalization
 generates customizable hearing profiles
 creates variety of supported sound environments
 Suits people with normal hearing, as well as those with mild
to moderate hearing loss
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Hearing Facts
 About Hearing in General
 No two ears, or two people, hear alike
 Hearing preferences vary between individuals, and are source-dependent
 About Hearing Loss
 Gradual hearing loss is a common consequence of aging
 14-17% (>700M) people of all ages worldwide have hearing loss
 The number of hearing impaired people is growing twice as fast as the
general population
 About Hearing Aids (HA)
 95% of hard of hearing people can be helped by HA
 In developed countries only 15-20% of people with hearing loss use HA
 In developing countries only 1 in 40 of those who need it have access to HA
 HA sales have been stagnating for the past several years
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* Data collected from the World Health Organization fact sheets

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Why? 4 Reasons … (at least)
1. Extremely High Cost
 Top-of-the-line devices are sold by audiologists for $3000-$5000
 Not covered by most health insurance policies
2. Stigma
 Hearing aids are visible medical devices associated
with elderly and/or handicapped people
3. Limited Functionality
 Mainly hearing amplification
 Limited connectivity
 Limited frequency range (300-7000Hz)
4. Customer Dissatisfaction
 20% of people who bought hearing aids return them
 17% of users are dissatisfied, 7% keep them in the drawer
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Alango’s Vision: Create a line of multi-functional,
high-performance, low-cost alternatives to
traditional hearing aids
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Traditional hearing aid →
Bluetooth™ headset with
hearing enhancement
Medical device →
As small as possible, almost invisible, but
making you look older
→
High cost of manufacturing and precision
components
→
High cost of marketing & distribution →
Limited performance due to size and power
consumption limitations
→
Limited connectivity →
Consumer electronics device
Stylish, fashionable device
Low cost of manufacturing due to using
high-volume, CE components
Distributed via Internet or consumer electronics
channels
Larger form factor allows using better components,
rechargeable batteries and powerful DSP
May connect to everything via a Bluetooth®
protocol and smartphone

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BeHear™ Concept Product:
A Truly Personal Bluetooth® Hearable
 Includes everything you can find in
the most expensive hearing aids, and more
 Improves all-around hearing,
without the stigma of a hearing aid
 Works as an advanced Bluetooth stereo headset
 Sold “Over The Counter”; not a medical device
 Low cost ($129 MSRP)
 High customer satisfaction
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Hear Ambient Sounds
According to Your Preferences
 Binaural adaptive processing
 Advanced feedback canceller
 Stationary, transient and wind
noise reduction
 Multi-channel dynamic range
compression, tunable for specific
hearing loss and environments
 And more …
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Binaural adaptive processing

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Personalized Listening for Optimal
Enjoyment and Intelligibility
 Personalized voice call and music sound
according to:
 User hearing (based on user’s hearing
preferences assessment)
 User preferences (based on real time
sound customization)
 EasyListen™ (during phone calls)
 Slows down the incoming, far end speech
for better understanding
 Improve comprehension of fast talkers,
foreign languages, recorded messages
 Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
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your
EARS
Noise around
you
Noise
dependent
volume and
frequency
equalization
Your hearing
preferences
User
specific
sound
processing
Your device
properties
Device
speaker
equalization
one
SOUND
audio audio audio audio audio
General
sound
enhancement
Making the Music Personal 9
Active Noise
Cancellation

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Hear Only What You Want
and Need to Hear
 ListenThrough™
 Stay aware of ambient sounds while
enjoying your music content
 Passes through only important sounds, such
as sirens or a colleague’s voice
 Blocks ambient noise without compromising
the music experience
 Noise dependent volume and equalization
control
 Sound is amplified additionally according
to ambient noise level and spectrum
 Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) of
ambient noises
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Hearing Threshold
(sound becomes audible above this level)
Most Comfortable Level
(sound is most pleasant and clear around this level)
Built-in Hearing Preferences
Assessment
 Use your mobile device screen
 Indicate your hearing preferences with a simple built-in assessment
for multiple frequencies
 Choose two levels for each frequency:
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Best
Hearing
Point
Personalization at Your Fingertips
 “Best hearing point“ – You find it!
 Intuitively modify the default hearing
enhancement by touching different
parts of the screen
 Default hearing enhancement is done
automatically, based on the hearing
preferences assessment
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BeHear Technical Specification
 Mechanical
 Headset Weight: 29 g (1.0 oz)
 Wearing Style: Neck loop
 Operation Time
 Hearing mode: 15+ hours
 Talk: 10+ hours
 Play: 8+ hours
 Standby: 600 hours
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 Receiver Specifications
 Maximal Sound Pressure Level (SPL): 115dB
 Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 20 kHz
 Microphone Specifications
 Four microphones:
 Low noise ECM in each earpiece
 Digital MEMS in each control box
 Frequency Response: 100 Hz to 15 kHz
 Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)
* Specifications subject to change prior to general availability release

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About Alango
 Established in 2002
 DSP software technologies for voice, audio and
hearing enhancement
 Technology used in automotive, mobile,
conferencing, assistive listening products
 Over 30 million product licenses sold, and growing fast
 Offices
 35 people
 Headquarters, R&D: Haifa, Israel
 R&D: St. Petersburg, Russia
 Representatives: China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan
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