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Jacoti: Hearing Apps With A Universal Design
Jacoti BBVA, the cloud-based hearing applications provider from which consumer electronics firms can license IP-protected solutions, is a contender in the Global Mobile Awards 2017. Mobile device users use the Jacoti Hearing Suite to customise and monitor their hearing experience, with typical hearing or to achieve sound amplification with(out) hearing device/s. Digital hearing-aids and cochlear implants can be connected
Soapbox Labs: Speech To Text In Education
Soapbox Labs, a Dublin-based startup that builds speech-to-text technology to analyse young children’s literacy in noisy settings like kitchens, cafes and cars, has raised €1.2 million in a financing round backed by Enterprise Ireland, Elkstone Capital and Astia Angels. Potential Redirection For Classroom Captions Data algorithms generated by Soapbox use 600,000 audio samples collected from
‘Spend To Save’ On Hearing Conditions (UK)
Just recently, The Ear Foundation launched its “Spend To Save” Europe-wide report to confirm the real cost of hearing loss and how access to today’s [hearing] technology across Europe, can transform individual lives and save public funds. Actual figures put the UK’s total loss from not making hearing technology available, at the €30 billion mark when
Why Sound Advice Is Not A Charity
Several factors shaped our 2014 move to restructure the IDK (Irish Deaf Kids) venture from a dual-registered entity with CRO and CHY status, into Sound Advice as a sole tradership. Professionalising The Venture Between 2007 and 2014 (Ireland’s recession years), the professionalism underpinning the IDK venture went unseen, despite the founder’s past exposure to digital transformation within the publishing and corporate
Classroom Captions For Mainstream Deaf Children
Auditory Sciences’ Interact-AS classroom captioning software for mainstreamed students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing has won an award for its 90 to 95 per cent accuracy rate. Technophile deaf students who read at/above fifth-grade level with a strong attention span best track the captioning speed as the teacher or others speak in the learning environment. Interact-AS™ is a
Patient-Led Innovations At #EH2030
Ireland – the latest country in Europe to move its healthcare system to the cloud – held its first Health Innovation Week from November 19 to 24, 2016 with speakers ranging from chief information officers in healthcare from the UK and Ireland, to patients and innovators. Disrupting Healthcare Systems Healthcare is (positively) disrupted when innovation is
Reflections On #WebSummit2016 (Lisbon)
Having attended two Web Summit conventions in Dublin, Ireland (their hometown) – the opportunity to travel to the 2016 event at its new home in Lisbon, Portugal had to be taken. Women In Tech Tickets Ten thousand free tickets were assigned to female founders with their own businesses in the organisers’ attempt to boost the
Educators Piloting Avenue PM Literacy Software
With about six million children in the US having hearing issues, the US Department of Education is investing almost US$ 900,000 into a software suite to track and monitor oral literacy progress in both mainstream and supported education programs. Forty-nine US states with 500 teachers and 1000 students are piloting the Avenue PM product, named
Schools Adapting To Students With Implants
School districts across the US are challenged when updating education policies for mainstreaming deaf children who wear hearing devices and cochlear implants at local schools. While early intervention saves over US $200,000 per student for children with cochlear implants, parents across the US are applying for education services geared to children with these digital hearing
The Power Of Speech For Deaf Children
Parents and teachers working with children who hear and talk with digital hearing devices (the auditory verbal method) are always seeking inspiration. Here’s some! In June 2016, Auditory Verbal UK hosted a “The Power of Speech” graduate event at the UK’s House of Commons, at which various children engaged in public speaking with MPs, educators,
eBook: Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak
Edited by Caroline Carswell
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