Easy-to-use, Automated, Accurate and Intelligent.
Simply put, the world’s best automated audiometer.
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Easy to Use
Automation makes testing easy and engaging for all.
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State of the Art
Tablet audiometry and paperless data management – the future of automated audiometry.
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Accurate
Clinically validated to be as accurate as traditional equipment.
How it Works

Features
- Easy-to-use, and portable
- Automated and assisted testing modes
- Pure tone Audiometer: air conduction with masking
- SHOEBOX Wizard: intelligent algorithm addresses background noise and unreliable responses
- Automated shift detection
- Extended high frequencies (to 16kHz)
- Paperless audiometry data management for patient, employee, client data management capabilities
- Embedded inventories and custom questionnaires
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SHOEBOX Standard
- Automated game play
- Assisted mode testing
- Pure tone with air masking
- Intelligent algorithm to address background noise and unreliable responses
- EHF in automated mode
- Integrated electronic questionnaires
- Manual mode
- Bone conduction
- Masked bone
- SRT/SDT testing
- Speech discrimination testing
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SHOEBOX Pro
- Automated game play
- Assisted mode testing
- Pure tone with air masking
- Intelligent algorithm to address background noise and unreliable responses
- EHF in automated mode
- Integrated electronic questionnaires
- Manual mode
- Bone conduction
- Masked bone
- SRT/SDT testing
- Speech discrimination testing
Best Suited For

Improve workflow efficiencies
- Paperless data management
- Automated shift detection and reporting
- Portable and easy-to-use
- Accurate results, even when testing outside a sound booth
- Cost effective and efficient
- Support for multiple regional regulations
- For CAOHC certified conservationists who wish to perform subsequent manual tests, consider SHOEBOX Pro

Offer hearing testing as part of an annual exam
- Automation makes it easy for anyone to perform a hearing test
- Provide more complete patient care
- Accurate results, even when testing outside an audiometric test booth
- Add new billable services

Automated diagnostic testing for drug-induced ototoxicity monitoring
- Clinically validate
- Accurate results even when used outside of a sound-booth
- Use one standard testing protocol in geographically distributed locations
- Paperless patient, data management across multi-sites
- Simplify threshold shift detection

Highly portable, powerful, and accurate
- Ultra-light weight
- Ideal in low resource settings such as those with intermittent power
- Fun and easy-to-use
- Accurate results, even when testing outside a sound booth
- Enable remote support to local health providers through cloud-based data management

Offering complete care for your clients
- Easy to use – anyone can administer a diagnostic hearing test
- Validated to produce accurate results
- Ultra-lightweight and portable – move the system from room to room
- Automated data backup for improved client management

Fun, fast, and easy-to-administer school aged hearing screening
- Functions like playing a game – fun and interactive for all
- Light-weight and portable – easy to move from room to room
- Accurate results, even when testing outside a sound booth
- Efficient record keeping
Clinical Validation
SHOEBOX has been clinically validated for use as a diagnostic audiometer, even when testing is performed outside of a sound booth. We have been included in various studies on the efficacy of tablet audiometry, conducted at some of the world’s leading institutions.
Technical Specifications
- Equipment
Please visit our Help Center for the list of supported iPads.
Convenient, padded carrying case
- Recommended Transducers
RadioEar DD450
Sennheiser HDA280
E-A-RTONE 3A Inserts
TDH-50 (special order)
- Automated test functionality
Optimized for use outside sound booth
Pure tone air with masking
Easy-to-use fully automated Modified Hughson Westlake test
Language independent self-testing interface suitable for both children and adults
15 second “how-to” video tutorial for patient/test subject
Animated feedback on user actions during the test
Intuitive user encouragements during the course of the test
Intelligent noise monitoring of test environment with customizable ambient noise level monitoring based on regional regulations
Simple administrator test setup wizard
Starting test intensity level tailored for each patient/test subject
Pre-set test types for adults and pediatrics with specific graphics, frequencies, and volume limits
Ability to add custom test types with test graphics, sound types, frequencies, and volume limits
On-screen display of audiogram with automatic interpretation of results and ability to input comments
Optional extended high frequency up to 16kHz
No need for network connectivity while testing
Long lasting battery enables ongoing testing all day
- Smart Testing Algorithm
Smart ambient noise monitoring and recording for each frequency tested
Intelligent re-test algorithm where ambient noise or user error may have negatively affected results
Detection of unreliable user responses
Evaluates thresholds and flags “unlikely” thresholds for retest
Automated masking recommendations are prompted when needed
Pure tone average (PTA) automatically calculated with configurable frequencies and listed for each ear
Auto-generated interpretation text of the audiogram
- Sound Generation
250Hz – 16kHz
-10 dB HL to 90 dB HL
Step size 5 dB, accuracy: +/- 1 dB
Stimulus types: Pure tone, warble tone
Narrowband noise for masking
- Integrated Electronic Questionnaires
Built-in hearing health Inventories and questionnaires including calculation of scores
Customizable questionnaires and intake forms
- Additional integrated functionality
Audiometry Essentials online learning modules (CME accredited)
Integrated with Data Management offers organization of patients by projects
Extensive patient demographic fields
Ability to add notes to any patient/test subject file
In App patient management database Maintains a local view of historic data generated by the device
Store, send, or print PDF audiograms and questionnaires
Automatic backup to online Web Portal for Data Management and remote management of data
- Online Data Management Functionality
Refer to our Data Management specifications to learn more about the following capabilities:
Electronic data transfer of patient test and questionnaire results
Import of patient lists and historical audiograms including baselines
Organize patients and results into logical groupings (project, geography, organization)
Define and maintain audiometric baselines for each patient
Monitoring for threshold shifts for a variety of different regulations/protocols
Comprehensive reporting engine including:
Individual patient summary reports
Clinical hearing threshold shift reports (CTCAE)
Employee roster reports
Hearing conservation shift reports following OSHA and MSHA guidelines
- Compliance
ANSI S3.6
CSA Z107.6-16
FDA Class II
CE Class IIa
ISO 13485
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95 audiometric requirements
Health Canada
Australian TGA