Resources

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."

The XR Access Symposium was held virtually June 10-11, 2021. This report was compiled by the organizers based on notes and presentations from the symposium.

You can find information about LE Audio on the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) website. The Bluetooth SIG, based in Kirkland, WA (outside Seattle), is a not-for-profit trade association with over 36,000 member companies working to advance Bluetooth technology in a variety of markets and solutions. The link provided below under 'Related Websites' is a starting point for exploring the…

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced LE Audio, their “Next Generation of Bluetooth Audio.” You can read the full press release at the Business Wire link below under 'Related Websites.'

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.