{"id":523,"date":"2015-07-09T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/southamptonconnects\/?p=523"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:30:11","slug":"tv-aid-for-the-hard-of-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/southamptonconnects\/2015\/07\/09\/tv-aid-for-the-hard-of-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of TV aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/southamptonconnects\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/27\/\/2015\/04\/Hearing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/southamptonconnects\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/27\/\/2015\/04\/Hearing.jpg\" alt=\"Hearing\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It is estimated that disputes over TV volume, often caused by some family members having age-related hearing loss, affect one in ten households. To combat this, researchers from the University\u2019s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research have developed an award-winning loudspeaker system. Marcos Sim\u00f3n, a PhD researcher, has devised a highly-directional system of acoustical radiators, or loudspeaker arrays, which produce a sound \u2018hot spot\u2019 by boosting the audio signal in the area of a room where a hearing impaired person is sitting but maintaining the same audio levels.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments have shown that it is possible to obtain around 30 per cent speech intelligibility improvement of the hearing impaired listeners while maintaining a good audio quality for those with healthy hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is estimated that disputes over TV volume, often caused by some family members having age-related hearing loss, affect one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,64,118],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hearing","tag-institute-of-sound-and-vibration-research","tag-television","alumni_category-frontpage","alumni_category-university-successes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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