JustAMP Digital Voice Amplifier

JustAMP Digital Portable Voice Amplifier is a speech aid device designed to help whisper patients who have lost their ability to project a loud voice to speak again.

The JustAMP Portable Digital Voice Amplifier is ideal for voice loss that may occur due to any of the following: Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's Disease, aka Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), or Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The digital signal processing used in JustAMP allows filtering unequaled in today's analog amplifiers. The JustAMP's Crystal Whisper Technology uses state-of-the-art digital technology to virtually eliminate air rush noise (ex. heavy breathing) commonly found using analog amplifiers.

JustAMP uses digital techniques to suppress feedback noise. The system can be held within inches of the microphone without feedback occurring. JustAMP can fit into a standard shirt or pant pocket or may be hung around the neck with a lanyard. This allows for better positioning of the sound source providing a more natural voice.

Features:

• Ease to Use
  As easy to use as a transistor radio or portable CD player. The system has been designed to make the electronics do all the work and not the patient. It's as easy as putting on the headset and turning up the volume.
  
• Crystal Whisper Technology
  The engineers at JustMed, Inc. have developed a digital process for recognizing air noise and reducing or eliminating it on the amplifier. This allows the user to place the microphone very close to the mouth. Whisper voices associated with Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, and ALS are clearly amplified.
  
• Long battery life
  10-20 hours of continuous talk time.
  
• Rechargeable battery
  Pre-conditioned rechargeable battery pack. Pre-conditioning the batteries prepares them to the optimum condition specified by the battery manufacturer and extends the battery life.
  
• Battery Interchange
  Ability to use 3 standard AA alkaline batteries in place of the rechargeable battery pack if such an occasion is needed. This is a very important feature when recharging is not available.
  
• Phone adaptation (optional)
  May be plugged into a standard wireless phone or a cell phone. The phone adapter is available through JustMed, Inc.
  
• Upgrade capability
  As the engineers at JustMed, Inc. develop better software, your JustAMP will not be left behind. The unique programming port allows software upgrade capability for better voice quality in the future. This allows the user to have access to the best voice technology provided by JustMed, Inc. at a minimal cost without having to replace their entire unit.
• Small Physical Size
  A fraction of the size of most portable voice amplifiers
  
• Weight
  The weight is just over 9.5 oz, almost half the weight of the leading personal amplifier

• 2 Year Manufacturer's Warranty for Amplifier; 6 Month Manufacturer's Warranty for Headset and Handheld Microphone
• Availability: Typically ships within 24 hours
• Brand new product

Ideal for COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Patients:
- Due to the chronic obstruction of airflow out of the lungs, JustAMP's Whisper technology virtually eliminates air rush noise

* Voice Amplifiers are approved by Medicare as well as most private insurance agencies; (HCPCS Code L8510). Reimbursement amounts for these items differ due to many factors including but not limited to deductibles, plan structure & medical necessity. Cordless Workz can not be held liable for billing issues between our customers and their private insurance companies. Cordless Workz will work in conjunction with our customers and their health care professionals in acquiring proper paperwork and information to assist in processing their claim. Please contact your insurance carrier/Medicare office for any questions pertaining to your plan prior to purchasing.
Medicare Help Line: 1-800-Medicare

Digital Technology of the JustAMP
JustAMP Digital Portable Voice Amplifier is designed for someone with a whisper voice. In addition to solving battery life issues, it solves a couple of sound quality issues with amplifying a whisper voice

Clarity: The engineers at JustMed, Inc. have developed a digital process for recognizing air noise and reducing or eliminating it on the amplifier. This is achieved with software specifically written for the computer within JustAMP. This allows the user to place the microphone very close to the mouth. Whisper voices associated with Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, and ALS are clearly amplified. No "crackling" noise is present from the air rush going across the microphone as with a whisper voice.

Feedback: Another issue with amplifying a whisper voice is feedback (that loud squeal one may hear when the microphone and speaker are too close to each other). To amplify a whisper voice, one needs to turn the amplifier up very loud. Other amplifiers on the market will get feedback if turned up too loud and the user will be forced to separate the microphone they speak into and the speaker box from which their voice is heard by many feet. Using DSP software written for JustAMP, we do not allow this to happen. This allows for the JustAMP to still remain close to where the user's voice is used to being heard (i.e., it can be worn around the neck via a lanyard or worn in a shirt pocket). These features are very different than amplifiers currently on the market. Other amplifiers achieve volume only with speakers; JustAMP achieves volume with speakers and our software and allows for a more rich, full, sound

Competitive amplifiers are digital in only one sense: They use the term Digital to describe their system which uses a Class D Amplifier. They are talking about an Integrated Circuit (IC) on their Printed Circuit Board (PCB) which takes a small electrical signal and amplifies it into the speaker. Traditional amplifiers would remain on all the time. The key feature about a Class D Amplifier is that they are smart. If they determine if a signal is coming. Then they turn on. Conversely, if they determine a signal is off they go to sleep. They are on off but they use much less current/power. This function of the Class D Amplifier does not change the quality, clarity, or amount of amplification (i.e. they do not have better sound, but they are more efficient).

JustAMP is all digital. It uses a high powered Processor (Digital Signal Processor - DSP). This is how we are able to design in the features mentioned above. The comparison is analogous to a calculator and a Personal Computer. They are both digital, but one is much more powerful and advanced than the other.