Jan Verhave

Director of R&D

Acoustical consultant

After obtaining his degree in electronics engineering in 1989, Jan joined the Phonetics department of the University of Amsterdam to work on a European "Esprit" project on speech technology. In 1993, he accepted a research associate position at TNO in Soesterberg. At TNO Jan specialized in real-time low-latency hard- and software for acoustic signal processing. Applications that Jan worked on include 3D audio, the Speech Transmission Index and Active Noise Reduction.

Jan was lead engineer and software developer in many development projects, including the first IEC-compliant STI measuring software application and several generations of Active Noise Reduction headsets (analog and digital). Jan was also the primary developer of STIPA and was involved in several commercial implementations of STIPA. He has been the driving fore behind most STI-related innovations over the last decade.

Phone: +31 88 8770702
Email: jan@