Audeara’s partnership deal with Optek goes into production

Phil Creighton28 August 20261 Mins read4

Leadership teams from Audeara, Optek, and Eastech marking the start of production for Audeara's chip-level AI licensing partnership with Optek Microelectronics. Picture: Audeara

A milestone moment for Australian hearing health firm Audeara: production has started with its chip-level AI licensing partnership with Optek.

The company specialises in innovative listening solutions for people who need help hearing, including Auracast. They include the Audeara Buds, which won the Good Design Award 2025 in the Product Design (Consumer Electronics). These are clinical-grade hearing devices that can be tailored to a client’s hearing profile and have controls on the case.

The jury said: “This is a well-designed product with strong impact and innovative features. Well done to the team for this achievement.”

They also make Auracast-enabled headphones, microphones and TV streamers, and their products are being used in, among other places, retirement villages across Australia.

In December 2025, the firm entered into an agreement with OPTEK Microelectronics Co., which makes chips for many well-known brands, including SHARP, Philips, Toshiba, JVC, Panasonic, Pioneer, and TEAC.

The initial orders are worth approximately A$31,000 (£16,100) in aggregate, and future revenue will be recognised as additional licensed products are ordered and manufactured under approved customer production programmes.

. Now, following an extensive period of development with Optek, the first commercial orders are being placed, and it won’t be long before the licensed products featuring Audeara’s AI audio technologies hit the market.

This deployment includes its AI noise reduction technology, offering low latency

Audeara says this will help it to adapt and optimise its proprietary AI audio algorithms so it can be deployed on third-party semiconductor platforms, using a scalable fee-per-chip licensing structure, and will help with its plans to adapt and optimise its AI technology suite for consumer audio, hearbales, assistive-listening products and hearing aids – which will all benefit consumers.

“This is an important milestone for Audeara as we have demonstrated that our AI Audio technology can be successfully deployed ‘on chip’ which makes us a valuable provider moving forwards,” said Audeara’s CEO James Fielding.

“This first deployment validates both our capital-light licensing strategy and proves a pathway for our technology to be deployed efficiently and at scale.

“Companies who can adapt existing silicon and extract as much capacity out of a semiconductor platform as possible will have a competitive advantage.

“We’ve just proven we can do that.”

For more on Audeara, log on to: https://audeara.com

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Phil Creighton

Phil Creighton is a journalist with 30 years’ experience in the industry. He has edited newspapers, made regular appearances on radio, created magazines, written for computer magazines, interviewed several Doctor Whos, and written some comic strips. In December 2025, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Reading for his services to journalism in the greater Reading area. He studied Typography and Graphic Communication between 1996-2000, also at the University. And he is also severely deaf, thanks to a hereditary condition which cuts out high and low frequencies.