EFHOH Calls for Broader Access to Assistive Hearing Technology
On World Assistive Technology Day, the organization highlights inequalities in affordability and support across Europe.
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Telephone Captioning Products to Help Patients
Here’s a look at a selection of phone captioning products available to open up the lines of communication for audiology clients.
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ClearCaptions Launches New Emergency Alert System
ClearCaptions' emergency alert system is designed to reach seniors and individuals who are hard of hearing and who may miss emergency alerts.
‘The Hill’ Op-Ed Supports Quality Standards for Captioned Telephone Service Changes
Two letters were sent to the FCC supporting these standards: one from Reps. Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Don Young (R-Alaska), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Disabilities Caucus, and one from Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)
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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.
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‘The Hill’ Article Discusses CART Technology in the Classroom
Though CART stenographers are often present at public speeches, according to the article, they aren’t always available in classroom settings unless specifically requested.
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MIT to Provide Captioning for Online Videos
The settlement is part of a a case brought against the school that alleged it discriminated against deaf and hard-of-hearing people, according to “AP.”
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Boots Hearingcare Partners with Audacious
According to the article, Audacious will be available to Boots Hearingcare customers.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Social Engagement and Hearing Loss
Human beings are social creatures. This special report, featuring comments from leading experts in psychology and audiology, reviews new and important research on hearing loss, and shows why audiological care needs to renew its focus on helping patients regain their communication and social engagement activities—those things that make life meaningful and rewarding.
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AtlasIED to Debut New Product Lines at ISE 2019
Building upon 80 years of experience in audio technology, AtlasIED’s latest offerings are said to be engineered to meet the most common challenges in today’s commercial installations.
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Starkey to Demonstrate New Features of Livio AI at 2019 CES
Building on the recent launch of the “world’s first Healthable hearing technology,” Livio AI, Starkey Hearing Technologies announced the “first-ever” Fall Detection and Alert capability within a hearing aid, as well as Heart Rate Measurement and built-in Virtual Assistant, on the eve of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 8-11.
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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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