Can you hear me now? Anyone who has uttered those words in frustration over the inability to clearly hear the person on the other end of the phone line will be interested in Audience, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that's announcing $15 million in venture funding today from Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital, NEA and others.
Audience is a maker of noise suppression and echo cancellation technologies, making phone calls clearer. The technology -- modeled on the human hearing system -- is already in use by phone makers such as LG, Pantech and Sharp.
The company has raised a total of $60 million. You can get a sense of how it works in this demo.
Now, if some inventive entrepreneur could just design a technology that prevents phone calls from being dropped, we would be well on our way of turning the mobile phone into what it's best designed for: voice communications.
Vulcan's Steve Hall sits on the company's board as does Cal Tech professor Carver Mead, a founder of Seattle-based Impinj.
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