WILLIAMS SOUND - HEARING ASSISTANCE FOR MEETING / CONVENTIONS

Hotels, conference centers, conventions, corporate meeting rooms – all have the challenge of catering to large businesses and groups that speak multiple languages. In addition to providing language interpretation services, they also need to be able to provide hearing assistance, especially with the growing demand to meet new government accessibility (ADA) requirements.

Fortunately, new infrared technology such as the SoundPlus™ WIR TX900 or WIR TX925 has evolved to meet the needs of both hearing assistance and language translation, simultaneously. As a result, the participants improve their overall hearing and communication experience and venues improve their overall accommodations and retain customer satisfaction.

How the system works: The speaker(s) plugs their microphone (or sound system) directly into a modulator. For each language being spoken, the modulator designates a frequency: 2.3 MHz for English, 2.8 MHz for Spanish, 3.3 MHz for Korean, etc. The modulator processes each audio signal and sends them to an infrared emitter (the action is similar to a stereo system driving a pair of audio speakers). The emitter then transmits the audio signals simultaneously by infrared light waves throughout the listening audience. Participants wear specialized multi-channel receivers equipped with headphones (or earphones) so they can pick-up the audio and listen to the speaker in their native language. Participants can adjust the volume on their receiver to a comfortable listening level – they are given full control over their hearing assistance needs.