About
Soundbites PBC is an auditory neuroscience company built on nearly four decades of peer-reviewed research in hearing preservation. Our work spans basic science, translational research, and real-world evidence, all focused on a single question: how do we help people keep the hearing they have.
Dr. Joe Miller, The Visionary Behind Soundbites
Soundbites owes its existence to auditory neuroscience pioneer Dr. Josef M. Miller, Ph.D. (1937-2017). As the director of the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Miller led the basic research that led to the groundbreaking hearing preservation formula ACEMg in 2005. In lab studies, ACEMg increased inner ear nerve cell tolerance to noise by up to 30 decibels, reducing noise-induced hearing loss by 75%. The peer-reviewed data were published in 2007. As of 2025, ongoing research secured our leadership in hearing preservation with 11 ACEMg patents, brought to market under the Soundbites brand.
Operations Team
Barry Seifer
Founder and CEO
Barry co-founded the predecessor company Hearing Health Science with Dr. Josef Miller and has been pivotal in bringing Soundbites to market. He served as a Principal Investigator on the European Commission medical innovation grant to the ACEMg consortium. Barry lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Joop Korrel
Chief Technology Officer
Joop is passionate about engineering, designing, and improving complex digital solutions, ensuring that our online presence and research tools function flawlessly, comply with strict privacy regulations, and look great. He has a background in international business and management and lives in Ávila, Spain.
Giving Back
Soundbites is a Public Benefit Corporation. That means our mission is written into our legal structure. A portion of revenue funds the Keep Hearing Initiative, our affiliated nonprofit, which puts that money to work in two ways.
Research and education
The Keep Hearing Initiative has significantly contributed to Soundbites PBC's research and education projects and initiatives since 2019, producing educational videos, co-authoring the real-world evidence study published in Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health, and collaborating on the development of Soundware, our hearing assessment platform.
Global access
Noise pollution is not a background problem. Chronic noise exposure is one of the leading environmental drivers of hearing damage worldwide. The majority of those who suffer are in the Global South. The Keep Hearing Initiative is Soundbites PBC's partner in our pursuit of global access to ACEMg, where our goal is to make ACEMg available to anyone who wants it, independent of their ability to pay for it, along with assisting organizations working to accelerate the shift to renewable energy, because a quieter planet will help preserve hearing at a scale well beyond what we can do to address the problem.