Hearing Test Application

🎤 General Discussion iOS
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I would like to implement app about hearing test as Petralex but I don’t know what topic I should learn. Any suggestion.

  • Detect headphone
  • Tone Generator for Left/Right with different frequency and amplitude
  • Detect Noise Level
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Hi @ccnamtan, that’s awesome that you would like to build a hearing test app! Are you already familiar with Swift & iOS development? I’m not sure what your experience level is but I’d like to help by pointing you in the right direction.

Best,
Gina

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Hi @gdelarosa, yes, I familiar with Swift and iOS development but I’m not with the audio things. Thank you in advance for pointing the direction.

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Ok great! Well it appears that you’ll want to use AVFoundation. Because you haven’t worked with audio, I’m dropping this link here to get an intro to AVAudioEngine - an audio toolkit. Below that are other references. As for the detect headphones, you could try something like this…

func activateHeadPhonesStatus(){
     NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(audioRouteChangeListener(_:)), name: AVAudioSession.routeChangeNotification, object: nil)
    }

    @objc func audioRouteChangeListener(_ notification:Notification) {
            guard let userInfo = notification.userInfo,
                let reasonValue = userInfo[AVAudioSessionRouteChangeReasonKey] as? UInt,
                let reason = AVAudioSession.RouteChangeReason(rawValue:reasonValue) else {
                    return
            }
            switch reason {
            case .newDeviceAvailable:
                let session = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance()
                for output in session.currentRoute.outputs where output.portType == AVAudioSession.Port.headphones {
                    headphonesConnected = true
                    print("headphone plugged in")
                    break
                }
            case .oldDeviceUnavailable:
                if let previousRoute =
                    userInfo[AVAudioSessionRouteChangePreviousRouteKey] as? AVAudioSessionRouteDescription {
                    for output in previousRoute.outputs where output.portType == AVAudioSession.Port.headphones {
                        headphonesConnected = false
                        print("headphone pulled out")
                        break
                    }
                }
            default: ()
            }

        }

You’d be using AVAudioSession. As for the detecting noise level, I would suggest checking out AudioKit - mic analysis example. AudioKit is an audio synthesis, processing, and analysis framework that has great documentation and examples. Might be worth diving into. Tone generator, I would look into AVAudioPlayerNode. Hopefully these resources help you towards your goal!

Best,
Gina

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Thank you so much @gdelarosa, I tried the code but audioRouteChangeListener is not called so I searched to get some work around and I changed the code about adding observer by setting object as below.

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.audioRouteChangeListener(_:)), name: AVAudioSession.routeChangeNotification, object: AVAudioSession.sharedInstance())

I can detect the headphone now.

Next, I’ll try to create tone generator. Do you have sample code about this?

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That’s awesome that you got it working for the headphones! Unfortunately I do not have any sample code for the tone generator or noise detection.

Best,
Gina

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Hi @ccnamtan,
Have you tried first to play an audio file of a tone? That way you can get your app rolling.

cheers,

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