What is the name of your organization?
Project Mathi
What is the name of your solution?
Mathi
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
Mathi is a AI driven sound therapy system that disrupts auditory hallucinations using psychoacoustic masking and perceptual recalibration.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Tamil Nadu, India
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
India
What type of organization is your solution team?
Not registered as any organization
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What specific problem are you solving?
In schizophrenia and other related conditions, auditory hallucinations --typically "hearing voices" -- remain one of the most disabling, misunderstood, and treatment resistant symptoms in mental health.
Schizophrenia has affected over 24 million people globally and over 70% of these patients in lower & middle income countries receive inadequate care due to stigma, lack of access or medication side effects. These hallucinated voices can dominate a person's mental landscape, cause sleep disturbances, distress, isolation and even suicidal ideation.
In many rural communities, individuals with schizophrenia are often labelled as "mental", "possessed" or "dangerous". I saw this firsthand with my grandmother Gandhimathi (hence the name Mathi). To most, she was a madwoman. But to me, she was brilliant, poetic and terrified of the voices that only I bothered to understand. Her pain was real but so was her humanity, what she needed wasn't silence. It was relief. Mathi was born from that need - a deeply personal scientifically grounded solution that interrupts auditory hallucinations in real time without drugs, stigma or side effects.
What is your solution?
Mathi (Modular Auditory Therapy for Hallucination Interruption) is a mobile based & AI driven sound therapy system which is designed to manage auditory hallucinations non-invasively. We use psychoacoustic masking and perceptual recalibration to reduce the salience of voices by flooding the auditory system with custom tailored colored noise (pink, white, brown) and grounding ambient sounds (like rainfall or birdsong).
It has been built with real-time audio analysis using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) mic input and an adaptive AI engine, Mathi can adjust sound profiles based on environment and user feedback dynamically. Its six curated profile -- like Shield (speech masking) or Serenity (calm pink noise) -- allow users to personalize their relief. You can think of it as a digital auditory companion that helps schizophrenic individuals reanchor themselves to reality especially during moments of distress.
It works offline, is wearable with any Bluetooth headset and is designed for discretion. Mathi was not designed to be a product, it is a rethink of how we support those “hearing what isn’t there.”
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Mathi serves individuals experiencing persistent auditory hallucination -- particularly in underserved, medication fatigued, or rural populations. This includes schizophrenia patients, PTSD survivors or trauma-affected youth in both urban and remote areas where mental health care is inaccessible or stigmatized.
In rural India, mental health is taboo. Most families hide “madness” in silence often isolating the person. My grandmother was one such woman -- intelligent but trapped in voices no one wanted to hear about. Mathi gives people like her a discreet, on-demand lifeline -- something they can use without visiting a clinic, taking a pill or facing judgment.
For users, this means fewer sleepless nights. Fewer panic episodes. A sense of control during chaos. For caregivers, it offers peace of mind. For communities, it replaces fear with understanding. And for the system, it offers a scalable, real time intervention that can be deployed using a normal phone, not hospital beds.
