Assistive Listening – What's Next?
By Stephen O. Frazier
Auracast is set to improve audio accessibility for both
those with hearing loss and the general public.
Hearing loop technology is the darling of people with hearing loss. It has enabled them to hear in theatres, meeting halls, places of worship, and other venues with the simple touch of a button on their hearing aids. The last decade has seen a huge increase in the availability of the technology, and it continues to find new applications. Amtrak plans to loop ticket widows in 85 stations and have billions of dollars committed to new train cars that will have hearing loops. Nearly 30 airports in this country (and hundreds abroad) now feature hearing loops in some form in a variety of locations in their terminal. New York City taxicabs now feature hearing loops, San Francisco subway cars are “looped”, and New York has 1,000 such cars soon to be delivered.
Just as cellular phones have supplanted landlines for most people, there's a new technology that is expected to eventually replace not just hearing loops, but also many FM, Infrared, and WiFi assistive listening systems. It's a new form of Bluetooth® called Auracast™ and was developed by the Special Interest Group (SIG) that created Bluetooth..This section of the LMN website has been created to provide consumer friendly information on this new technology.
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