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.
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.
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.
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:
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, 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.
Many of us have been a part of the evolution of listening to music via boom boxes, walkmans, MP3 players, iPods and cell phones. What’s cool about these kinds of devices is that we hear the music up close and personal. Using an assistive listening device is just as simple as using these devices. But, where an ALD differs from such devices is that it can be the reason you fully experience the moment in a theater, house of worship, classroom, board room, or stadium.
The Hale Centre Theatre first became a Listen customer in 2003 when they contacted us looking for a replacement to their installed assistive listening system. Since they were familiar with such systems and they had experience with another brand, they requested an evaluation system prior to making their final decision. I worked with them on this and supplied them with a system to try for 30 days. The rest as they say is history. Listen and the staff at Hale Centre Theatre became friends quickly. They loved their new Listen system and felt comfortable with our company right away. Weve grown quite close to them and our relationship has evolved beyond being their assistive listening solution provider.
Jeroen Smit of Clairty Audio Systems in El Dorado Hills California recently did an install with the Listen FM Products for the Timber Creek Lodge. ”We selected the “Listen” system because of the past success of integrating it into other complex systems, and for the quality it delivers, sonically and functionally.” said Jeroen.
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