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A graphic essay on how wireless technologies work in hearing aids (microphones, transmitters, phones, T-coils/hearing loops, etc.) This is the final draft; I'm waiting on the bibliography. Comments welcome!
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A graphical guide to wireless hearing aid technologies (draft)
A graphic essay on how wireless technologies work in hearing aids (microphones, transmitters, phones, T-coils/hearing loops, etc.) This is the final draft; I'm waiting on the bibliography. Comments welcome!
A graphic essay on how wireless technologies work in hearing aids (microphones, transmitters, phones, T-coils/hearing loops, etc.) This is the final draft; I'm waiting on the bibliography. Comments welcome!
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your car radio iy te
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other radia stations.
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nan open channel
isnt whet you want
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is frusteating.
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bands, like thousands of
other consumer devices
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WM end by saying this
Gel) It bothers me how hard it is +e
Hinker with these Hrings, We have
World-class, mult thevsaad -dellar
adaptive microphones ON ove HEADS
and we DO NOT HAVE ACESS To
THE AUDIO AnE're caphveing:
Why can't | record
Slant ioteetovs
with my hearing aid
rere genes?
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Fortunntely, the world has deat
7 we electrical engineers... and we
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(Tei + induction loop)
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So sing tuned. END