How Phone Captioning Solutions Bolster Communication Accessibility
As phone captioning technology continues to evolve, HCPs can help patients who need them understand and adopt these transformative tools.
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Sorenson Unveils New Project to Support Veterans with Hearing Loss
Sorenson launched an initiative dedicated to supporting United States military veterans and service members with hearing loss.
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FCC Grants Temporary Waiver of Certain TRS Rules During Coronavirus
During this emergency, there may be times that prompt connection time takes a little longer. Providers are doing their best to fully staff their call centers to ensure that the phones are answered as quickly as possible.
Phonak Partners with Microsoft on Phonak Remote Support Service
The new service is designed to increase access to hearing care over distance by helping to enable remote fine-tuning of Phonak Audéo Marvel hearing aids from virtually anywhere in the world.
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Widex Announces TV PLAY and RedDot Award Honor
Widex has announced the launch of WIDEX TV PLAY™, a high-end TV accessory and streaming solution for WIDEX EVOKE™ hearing aids, which also recently received the Red Dot Design Concept Award.
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Sonic Introduces New Styles and Performance Levels for Enchant
Designed with a focus on size to create a “first-rate fit,” Enchant custom models reportedly use a variety of venting, amplifier, and battery configurations to build the smallest possible instruments to satisfy individual preferences for style, comfort, and gain. Feature options include four receiver sizes (75-100 dB), advanced wireless communication with 2.4 GHz, Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI) technology, dexterity enhancements for easier handling, and more.
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Widex Announces New Insights into EVOKE Hearing Aid’s AI Function
Denmark-based Widex launched the WIDEX EVOKE hearing aid in April. The hearing aid is reportedly the first to give users the ability to employ real-time machine learning that can solve the tricky hearing problems that users face in their daily lives.
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GN Hearing and Google Partner to Enable Direct Streaming from Android Devices to Hearing Aids
Users will be able to connect and monitor their hearing aids without using an intermediate device for streaming from Android phones and tablets to their hearing aids.
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Tunity Announces SDK for Audio Streaming Device
Tunity SDK for Audio is said to gives companies that service the hearing impaired the ability to embed a white labeled version of Tunity’s patented deep-learning TV audio streaming technology directly into their customer-facing apps.
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FCC Proposes Automating Phone Captioning
As part of a July 18 announcement in the Federal Register on a new proposed ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—the government agency regulating interstate communications by radio, TV, satellite, cable, and wire—has indicated an interest in utilizing automated speech recognition (ASR) as an alternative to live captioning assistants (CAs) for Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS), making the use of CAs optional.
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Apple Announces Live Listen Compatibility with AirPods in iOS12, 'TechCrunch' Reports
The feature—found in hearing aids certified through Apple’s Made for iPhone hearing aid program—will enable users to utilize their phones as a remote microphone when positioned near the source of sound (such as in a noisy restaurant).
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Sonic to Present Enchant Hearing Aid Family at AAA 2018
In a side-by-side listening demo, hearing care professionals can discover for themselves how Enchant compares to the competition in noisy environments.
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Etymotic Research Merges with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio
Two well-known names and company owners in hearing device manufacturing are joining forces. Etymotic Research Founder Mead Killion announced that his company has merged with Lucid Hearing/Lucid Audio, a prominent hearing aid and PSAP manufacturer owned by Henry Smith, founder of Authorized Hearing Systems (AHS), America Hears, and more recently Liberty Hearing Aids and Lucid Audio.
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EXPERT INSIGHT #2: How long should the hearing aid battery last after a full charge, and how does Bluetooth affect this?
This week’s Expert Insight addresses how long a battery should last after a full recharge, how Bluetooth streaming can affect battery life, and if the life of a hearing aid circuit is shortened by a rechargeable system. Get new insights into power issues, and ask your own questions here!
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IntriCon Adds Power-Efficient Wireless Audio Streaming to Its Hearing Devices
IntriCon has taken another major step forward in its hearing aid and hearables offerings—this time adding audio streaming functionality. IntriCon’s and NXP’s R&D teams merged hearing aid engineering and wireless audio streaming semiconductor technology to deliver hearing aid devices that can stream wireless audio from IntriCon’s wireless accessories. It intends to launch this technology—coupled with a remote microphone—into its Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Direct-to-Insurance (DTI) channels in the first half of 2018.
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Sonic Enchant Line Adds SoundClip-A to Stream Sounds in Stereo from Numerous Devices
Sonic has expanded the wireless connectivity options of its Enchant hearing aids with the introduction of SoundClip-A. The easy-to-use, lightweight SoundClip-A allows users to stream stereo sound hands-free to both hearing aids from all Bluetooth® 2.1 smartphones and devices. The small, ergonomically designed clip-on device delivers added benefit as a wireless remote/partner microphone for easier listening when the speaker is at a distance or in noisy environments where listening is difficult. SoundClip-A also enables remote volume control, program changes, and call pick-up with just the press of a button.
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Oticon Launches ConnectClip Connectivity Device
According to the company, the intermediary device turns Oticon Opn™ hearing aids into a wireless headset for clear, hands-free calls from modern mobile phones, including iPhone® and Android™ smartphones.
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Advanced Bionics to Incorporate Sonova’s Sword Chip Technology
Current users of the Naída CI Q90 sound processor, and future recipients, will be able to connect to any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone.
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