America Hears Partners with Sound Design to Deliver Next-Generation Hearing-Aid Solutions Standardizing on VOYAGEUR(TM) Digital Signal Processing Platform Enables Better Sound Quality in Smaller, More Powerful Hearing Aids

BRISTOL, PA-July 15, 2008-America Hears, Inc. today announced it will standardize its entire family of premium digital hearing aids on the advanced VOYAGEUR(TM)digital signal processing (DSP) platform from Sound Design Technologies Ltd. The two companies also announced a joint development agreement to enhance the VOYAGEUR semiconductor platform with unique new capabilities that promise to deliver the world's best listening experience to hearing-aid customers.

Standardizing on the VOYAGEUR(TM) DSP platform enables America Hears to deliver a range of customer benefits, including smaller hearing aids, longer battery life, and better sound processing utilizing the sophisticated ADRO(R) (Adaptive Dynamic Range Optimization) amplifier algorithm developed by Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd. for America Hears. VOYAGEUR(TM) is Sound Design's industry-leading DSP system for hearing-instrument applications, with enough processing power to accommodate both current and future complex sound-processing algorithms. A powerful, programmable, multi-processor DSP platform with a unique reconfigurable architecture, VOYAGEUR(TM) is ideal for applications that demand ultra low power consumption,programmable flexibility and compact size.

By standardizing on Sound Design's semiconductor platform and Dynamic Hearing's software platform, America Hears is positioned to continue strengthening its broad line of premium hearing products for an expanding global market demanding both high performance and value.
"Just as the world's leading computer manufacturers standardized their products around Intel's processors and Microsoft's operating system, we have standardized our products around Sound Design's DSP's and Dynamic Hearing's ADRO(R) technology," said Henry C. Smith, Sr.,President and CEO of America Hears. "With both Sound Design and ADRO(R) 'inside,' we can focus on developing our own additional proprietary value-added applications, which set us apart faster and more effectively than ever before."

According to Dan Carlson, Vice President, Sales and Business Development of Sound Design Technologies, "America Hears is one of Sound Design Technologies' highly valued and admired customers building differentiated hearing aid products on several generations of our DSP platforms. With the standardization on our VOYAGEUR(TM) platform, America Hears will benefit with matchless sound quality and high-end processing capabilities that will enable America Hears to develop unique and sophisticated digital hearing aid products."

Smith said, "My life's work is to improve the lives of as many people as possible by providing them with proper hearing enhancement."America Hears is the world's only manufacturer of premium digital hearing aids to sell and support its products directly over the internet. By making appropriately priced hearing-assistance products easily available to a broader market than ever before, America Hears is helping to expand the hearing-aid industry, which has experienced disappointingly slow growth in spite of the rapidly growing segment of the population suffering from age and job related hearing loss.America Hears' design and manufacturing experience, Dynamic Hearing's ADRO(R) software, and the high-end DSP platform from Sound Design promise to deliver hearing-assistance products with more capabilities at more appropriate prices than ever before.

ABOUT AMERICA HEARS:

America Hears develops, manufactures and sells premium digital hearing aids directly to consumers while providing professional support from its own audiologists over the internet and phone. America Hears provides the industry's highest quality hearing aids at $995 each, less than half the cost of other premium brands.

ABOUT SOUND DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES:
Sound Design Technologies is a leading designer and manufacturer of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for hearing instruments, and a leading provider of advanced high density interconnect technologies used in custom miniaturized 3D Multi-Chip Modules (MCM), System-In-Package (SIP) and Stacked Chip Scale Packages (S-CSP). Founded in 2007 via the acquisition of Gennum Corporation's Audio Division and Manufacturing Operations, Sound Design Technologies is headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, with additional offices in Ottawa.

ABOUT DYNAMIC HEARING:
Dynamic Hearing Pty Ltd. headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, provides advanced digital signal processing solutions for personal communication devices as embedded software. All technology developed by Dynamic Hearing is designed to enhance the experience of sound for listeners in any environment, providing them with greater mobility and improved lifestyle. The company licenses its technology to international manufacturers of headsets, hearing aids and other personal communication devices, and has a high performance team of audiologists, scientists, software programmers and DSP engineers, led by a business and management team focused on rapid product development, scientific validation and sound commercial partnership.