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Sound Mode – Screenless Smartphone Conversion App

Today, with nearly 8 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, screen distraction and addiction have reached epidemic levels. The result is a public safety crisis that demands urgent action.

The Automobile Safety Foundation (ASF) is responding with Sound Mode, a software innovation that converts dangerous screen-based smartphones into screenless, sound-first mobile phones in operation. Sound Mode operates entirely by voice, with no visual interaction, eliminating the need to look down, tap, swipe, or hold a screen while communicating.

Sound Mode applies the same screenless, safe, sound-based mobile communication concept pioneered by the Automobile Safety Foundation, delivered through software for immediate global use.

People can walk and talk, work and talk, and drive and talk — but the eyes do not multitask. By shifting mobile communication from sight to sound, Sound Mode restores attention and reduces risk for people on the move. It improves safety for pedestrians, children walking and biking to school, drivers, transport workers, first responders, and anyone endangered by screen distraction.

Sound Mode addresses the global crisis now by converting the smartphones already in circulation worldwide to screenless, sound-first operation.

This public safety crisis requires immediate action.
ASF has petitioned federal regulators to recognize sound-based mobile communication as a public safety requirement and to advance standards that ensure sound-first operation and broad availability of screenless smartphone conversion applications.

New Broadcasting Frontier– Sound Mode Broadcasting (SMB) and Safe Sound Ads offer a new platform for content delivery and advertising, bypassing oversaturated screen visual channels, while creating fresh engagement opportunities for consumers and businesses. Television and other programmers can stream audio productions, music, news, and Sound Ads on the new SMB channel, opening up a brand-new broadcasting frontier for a multitude of new listeners.

The World’s First Smartphone With No Screen

Before Sound Mode, ASF pioneered the original solution to the screen distraction crisis with Safe Call-EarPhone, the world’s first smartphone with no screen. Recognizing its urgent importance to public safety, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office fast-tracked the Safe Call-EarPhone patent, establishing a rare precedent for life-saving telecommunications innovation.

Safe Call-EarPhone operates entirely by voice and sound, with no visual interface. It embodies the original screenless mobile phone concept in hardware form, either as a standalone smartphone or in support of existing smartphones.

Safe Call-EarPhone is the world’s first smartphone with no screen, protected by a fast-tracked public-safety patent that established the screenless, sound-based mobile phone concept.

Licensing and Availability

Licensing, brokering, and sales opportunities for Sound Mode and Safe Call-EarPhone are now available.
ASF welcomes partnerships with technology companies, carriers, institutions, public agencies, and safety-focused organizations worldwide.

Designed to enhance the ease, functionality, and efficiency of Sound Mode IP, IVS adds intelligence, discernment, and advanced research capability to screenless, sound-first mobile phone communication.

IVS goes beyond basic voice commands by enabling intent-aware interaction, allowing users to ask complex questions, conduct research, compare information, and receive thoughtful audio responses without looking at or touching a screen.

Built specifically for safe mobile use, IVS improves focus and reduces distraction during activities such as driving, walking, and working. It is designed to keep communication sound-based, hands-free, and eyes-up.

The IVS Intelligent Voice System replaces outdated IVR, and represents the next step in intelligent, screenless mobile phone communication, essential to all businesses.

When mobile phones flooded into vehicles and public spaces at the turn of the century, it did not take long for safety authorities to recognize the danger. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration identified distracted driving as a deadly epidemic, a condition that has intensified as screens became central to mobile communication.

National and global telecommunications systems remain rooted in the 20th century, when phones, televisions, and computer screens were fixed to walls and desks. The logical evolution should have been to make phones mobile without making them visual. Instead, screens were added to phones designed for movement, creating one of the most dangerous design errors in technological history.

Viewing a screen while in motion should have carried a clear warning. ASF’s research revealed that the enduring principles of sound mind, sound heart, and sound wisdom provide the key to eliminating visual distraction. Safe mobile communication must be heard, not seen.

Put down the screen and listen.

Safe Call, then Safe Call-EarPhone, and now Sound Mode — opening sound windows into the new Sound Age.

Licensing and Availability

ASF is currently offering, licensing, brokering, and sales opportunities for SOUND MODE IP

Please contact ASF sales: info@carsafe.org

Safe Call: The Origin of the Sound Solution

When mobile phones flooded into vehicles and public spaces at the turn of the century, it did not take long for safety authorities to recognize the danger. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration identified distracted driving as a deadly epidemic, a condition that has intensified as screens became central to mobile communication.

National and global telecommunications systems remain rooted in the 20th century, when phones, televisions, and computer screens were fixed to walls and desks. The logical evolution should have been to make phones mobile without making them visual. Instead, screens were added to phones designed for movement, creating one of the most dangerous design errors in technological history.

Viewing a screen while in motion should have carried a clear warning. ASF’s research revealed that the enduring principles of sound mind, sound heart, and sound wisdom provide the key to eliminating visual distraction. Safe mobile communication must be heard, not seen.

Put down the screen and listen.

Safe Call, then Safe Call-EarPhone, and now Sound Mode — opening sound windows into the new Sound Age.

The ASF Sound Mission is a commitment to restoring attention, safety, and human-centered communication in a world overwhelmed by screens. It calls on individuals, institutions, and industries to move away from visual dependence and toward sound-based mobile communication that protects life and restores focus.

Through Sound Mode and Safe Call-EarPhone, the Sound Mission advances a safer, wiser approach to mobility—one that puts hearing before seeing and people before screens.

Join the ASF Sound Mission.

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