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Lauren Dragan, a senior staff writer at Wirecutter, spent two years researching and preparing this article. Wirecutter is a product review and recommendation website from the New York Times.

The FDA Rule Establishing Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids will take effect in October 2022.

President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy on July 9, 2021. This sweeping Executive Order includes 72 initiatives. It specifically calls out the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider issuing proposed rules within 120 days for allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter. While the FDA is well beyond the deadline for…

The FDA has proposed a rule to establish a new category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. When finalized, the rule would allow hearing aids within this category to be sold directly to consumers in stores or online without a medical exam or a fitting by an audiologist.

In this article from Acoustics Today, auditory research scientists with hearing loss share their perspectives, as well as potential future developments, from working in the field.

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.

Twitter Support announced in July (2021), "Now when you record a voice Tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the captions on web, click the “CC” button."