Starkey Adds Auracast Assistant, Google Fast Pair to Omega AI Platform
New features aim to simplify shared audio access, device pairing, and user-to-user communication for hearing aid wearers.
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Using Personal Listening Devices to Help Tested-Not-Sold Patients
Personal listening devices offers a solution for audiologists to ensure patients hear and understand important medical information, ultimately improving their health outcomes and emotional connections.
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Ampetronic and Listen Technologies Develop Auracast-Based Assistive Listening Solution
Listen Technologies and Ampetronic are developing a complete-installed assistive listening system utilizing Auracast broadcast audio tech.
Hearing Loops and The Hard-of-Hearing Traveler
Some inventions, like the telephone, just seem to stick around and evolve. Hearing loops and the telecoils that use them fall into that category.
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Letters: The Advent of “Superfecta” Hearing Aids with Telecoils
Robert Bishton, BC-HIS, says we have recently seen the introduction of what could be called “Superfecta” hearing aids: instruments that come in a cosmetically pleasing small RIC/RITE form-factor, are rechargeable, equipped with wireless connectivity (to smartphones, remote mics and TV streamers) as well as a built-in telecoil.
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Listen Technologies Launches Navilution Product Suite
Listen Navilution is a GPS-triggered commentary system that delivers prerecorded audio stories and information.
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ListenTalk Adds Expanded Functionality
The new functionality “can make it easier for interpreters using ListenTALK to listen to audio in one language and speak the words in another language without having to carry additional equipment.”
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Neosensory Partners with Oaktree Products
Neosensory, a company that builds devices for sensory augmentation, and Oaktree Products, a provider of clinical supplies to the hearing care industry, have partnered to allow hearing care professionals to purchase the Neosensory Buzz for their patients directly through Oaktree Products.
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Listen Technologies Launches Private Channels Feature
The new feature is part of a firmware upgrade to Listen EVERYWHERE, the award-winning wireless system that streams audio and customized content directly to smartphones and smart devices.
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Zoom Charges Monthly Fee for Closed Captioning During Pandemic, ‘WBFO’ Reports
Shari Eberts wrote an open letter—that turned into a petition with 58,000 signatures—asking video conferencing companies to remove the paywall from their captioning services.
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Listen Technologies Partners with Avidex for Distribution in Greece
Avidex has more than 20 years of experience addressing the AV needs of end users and businesses across several markets. Its clients include private corporations, education and cultural foundations, and commercial facilities.
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Fluent Audio Launches Portable Classroom Amplification System
The Fluent FA-CVAS-10 is a 10-position wireless voice amplification system. The teacher/instructor wears a small transmitter and microphone which transmits clear audio (even when speaking through a mask) to small wireless speakers that can be set up throughout a classroom or training room.
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Listen Technologies Partners with Poland-Based Distributor
Listen Technologies Corporation, a provider of advanced wireless listening solutions for 22 years, has partnered with ESS Audio, a sound system design and installation company in Poland. ESS Audio will distribute Listen Technologies’ Listen EVERYWHERE, ListenTALK, and ListenIR solutions in country.
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Researcher Designs Vibrating Glove for Deaf Individuals
Initially, Artem designed a joystick glove to be able to play computer games one-handed. He then improved the device, turning it into an unusual hearing aid.
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Professor Says Remote Learning Can Be Beneficial for Hearing-impaired Faculty
Jonathan Moore argues that he actually hears better on videoconference than a traditional classroom setting because his students are sitting close to the microphone; in class, his students sometimes speak low or are seated too far away for him to hear clearly.
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‘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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Listen Technologies Names Sam Nord to Role of Vice President, Global Sales
In this role, Nord will work with Listen Technologies’ partners to sell the company’s audio and content solutions to their customer bases. He will also oversee Listen Technologies’ outside and inside sales teams.
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Contacta Appoints Exertis ProAV as Distributor of Hearing Loop and Speech Transfer Systems in Australia
Contacta, an assistive living specialist, announced the appointment of Exertis ProAV Australia, part of Stampede and Exertis ProAV, to serve as its value distribution partner to drive sales of its hearing loop and speech transfer systems in the region.
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