Paul Lee, Managing Director, ACE Hearing
The recent Talent Unleashed Awards 2014—judged by the renowned Sir Richard Branson and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak— created by global IT&T recruitment and technology services company Talent International—saw a number of entrants from all over the Asia Pacific region. Winners are selected from various categories from inspirational leadership to community impact. This year’s award for community impact went to Paul Lee, the co-inventor and co-founder of Hong Kong based technology company, ACE Hearing, for his work in improving the life of the hearing impaired. Mr Lee and the other winners will receive a five day entrepreneurship workshop at the Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa during Global Entrepreneur’s week.
ACE Hearing has received recognition for its creation of a mobile app that incorporates the abilities and services of a hearing professional into a mobile device. It is able to assess a person’s hearing with a hearing test and then is able to reshape the device’s audio output to enable the hearing impaired to listen at a fuller and clearer level. This allows the hearing impaired to easily participate in mobile phone use and in some cases, the technology allows them to do away with their hearing aids entirely.
ACE Hearing has also seen applications in developing nations, where access to hearing professionals can be limited, successfully minimizing the work these professionals need to do while increasing the volume of patients they are capable of serving. Judge Sir Richard Branson, on the progenitors of the event, enthused, “Talent International is one of those amazing organisations that care about tomorrow and how we change the world today to inspire tomorrow’s tech sector and the people in it.”
ACE Hearing - Winner of the Community Impact Award at the 2014 Talent Unleashed Awards
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