{"id":272253,"date":"2018-08-17T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=272253"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:26:41","slug":"google-bringing-hearing-aid-support-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/272253-google-bringing-hearing-aid-support-to-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Google bringing hearing aid support to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2018\/08\/streaming-support-spec-for-hearing-aids_16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a><\/strong> an open specification in partnership with GN Hearing to cater to users who use hearing aids.<\/p>\n<p>In its announcement, the company cited World Health Organisation data which states that 466 million people worldwide have disabled hearing loss &#8211; with this number expected to increase to 900 million by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/source.android.com\/devices\/bluetooth\/asha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google&#8217;s new specification<\/strong><\/a> will add native hearing aid streaming support on future versions of Android, allowing users to connect their hearing aids to their devices and improve their audio experience.<\/p>\n<p>The technology allows audio streaming to hearing aids using Bluetooth Low Energy and is designed to have a minimal impact on battery life, while delivering high-quality audio.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s specifications details the pairing and connectivity process system architecture, and requirements for implementing hearing aid usage.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/272177-google-may-launch-ai-fitness-coach.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google may launch AI fitness coach<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has published an open specification in partnership with GN Hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,53191,167,53189],"class_list":["post-272253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-gn-hearing","tag-google","tag-hearing-aids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272281,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272253\/revisions\/272281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}