Resources

This article in Acoustics Today addresses the challenges, tools and tradeoffs of designing and managing acoustics in various worship spaces. It includes a discussion of speech clarity vs music quality and other issues.

This Hearing Review article discusses President Biden's summer 2021 executive order relevant to the proposed FDA regulations for OTC hearing aids.

At the 2021 TDI conference this summer, Larry Goldberg of Yahoo Media gave a plenary talk titled "ASR Captioning: Better than Nothing... or is it?" The video of this session can be found on YouTube at the link below and has sign language interpretation and embedded CART captioning. You can also turn on auto-generated captions in English for comparison.

In this blog post, Nick Hunn discusses the current state and future of the hearables industry and market, which essentially got its start a mere six years ago. Nick Hunn is a self-described technology strategist and wireless evangelist. He also chairs the Hearing Aid Working Group in the Bluetooth SIG.

How can employers support their employees with hearing loss? In this article from Forbes Magazine, Cheryl Goodwin, Head of Corporate Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility at Sony, discusses four ways that companies can design internal systems that help employees with hearing loss feel supported.

In the United States, most people with hearing loss do not receive hearing health care. This research symposium highlights some of the latest advances in delivering hearing care to communities traditionally unserved by clinic-based hearing care, including remote Alaska villages, older adults along the U.S.-Mexico border, and low-income older adults in Baltimore. In these settings, care is provided…

Sometimes, acoustics can be surprising. Like when a big space is noisier with fewer people in it. This blog from Kathi Mestayer, a staff writer for Hearing Health magazine, helps us understand why.