Assistive Listening Solutions

An Audio Guy Gets A Hearing Aid

I admit it, I never had my hearing checked until a few weeks ago. That’s kinda ironic for a guy who provides assistive listening solutions! It wasn’t a surprise to me that I have significant hearing loss in my left ear and some age related hearing loss on my right side. Like most people, I wasn’t that interested in using hearing aids. My “perception” was that they are for “old” people. Of course, now that I’m 55 years old, my definition of “old” keeps changing…. None the less, it’s just not that exciting to think about wearing hearing aids.

young man with short, brown hair working at a desk writing on paper looking at an assistive listening receiver with a universal ear speaker over one ear

Grants for Assistive Listening Devices

More than 30 million Americans suffer from hearing loss, according to the Starkey Hearing Foundation. Hearing aids and other assistive listening technology such as FM assistive listening systems, audio looping in public venues and churches, closed-caption devices and TTY-devices for telephones, allow individuals with hearing disabilities to lead independent lives. A number of private and nonprofit organizations offer grants for a variety of assistive listening devices and outreach services for those with hearing loss.

Group photo of smiling students huddled together holding up a quilt.

Take A Moment To Hear The World

Imagine going through high school and never being able to hear someone whispering in your ear, or whispering about you for that matter. Or being…

Get More From Your Assistive Listening System

How would you like to get more usage out of your assistive listening system? Well, you can and it’s pretty easy. If you have an assistive listening system it’s likely you have a stationary transmitter – this is the device that connects to an audio source like a sound board, microphone, or other devices and is typically the audio you are trying to deliver to those individuals that need auditory assistance. Your system will also include the listening devices for those individuals. The receiver captures the audio signal from the transmitter and the listener hears it via an earphone that plugs into the receiver.

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Omaha Community Playhouse

In its eighty fifth season, the Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP) continues to offer an outstanding array of plays, musicals, and unique adult and child educational programming towards achieving its mission of enriching the Omaha community through great theatre.

Accommodation for Effective Communication

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining our Rep Firm Ellison Northwest for their inaugural AudioFest Northwest event. Dave and Anne Ellison coordinated nine of their manufacturing partners to spend a day focused on educating customers about their respective product solutions.

Understanding Audio Description

Early in my audio career I was helping a company set up a large assistive listening system for Audio Description for the movie Forrest Gump. Several hundred receivers were needed so the audience could experience what it was like to only hear and not see a movie - the way visually impaired people experience a movie. Vince Scully did the voice narration that played along with the regular audio sound track to listen to a movie with descriptive narration was an amazing experience and reminds me of the importance of audio in our lives. In fact, I learned more about this movie with the narrative and it enhanced the experience greatly. I had already seen the movie but the enhancement I received through the narration left a much stronger impression on me.

What is Remote Language Interpretation?

Events that require language interpretation are often challenged by time requirements, space limitations, physical location of equipment and interpreters, and the need to link different locations together. The ability to perform remote language interpretation is a solution to these challenges. Here are a few examples of the applications that require it:

Interior of AV room at Dallas Cowboys Stadium

Dallas Cowboys Stadium Spotlights Listen, SurgeX and TASCAM

Greetings all, this is Frank Frombach. Some of you may remember me in the past. I had the opportunity to be a part of the Listen team for five years as National Product Specialist. I have been graciously invited by Russell Gentner to make a special guest blog appearance to share my experiences regarding three product applications that are being used in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

Green Bay Packer’s Lambeau Field Uses Listen FM Assistive Listening

Green Bay, WI As one of the NFLs premiere franchises, the Green Bay Packers have a solid championship record 13 non-losing seasons in a row starting in 1992 and they are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States. When its game time at Lambeau Field (the teams home), theres plenty of history, excitement, lots of sports fans in attendance, and an overwhelmingly high level of wireless technology keeping the lines of communication open.