Conferences and Meetings

Summary

Practical guidance on providing the full conference audio feed to assistive listening users, including breakout sessions.

Key findings

• Asks for assistive listening in breakout rooms, meeting rooms, plenary sessions and workshops.
• Says video sound, presenters and audience questions must all reach the listening system, with everyone using a microphone; suggests fixed audience microphones or one or two wireless microphones with runners.
• Illustrates an FM transmitter connected to a workshop sound mixer and an FM system at a plenary session.

Limits

Advocacy guidance and illustrative photographs, without identified venues, measured outcomes or a comparison of technologies. No publication date displayed.

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centerforhearingaccess.org/place-conferences

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Cited in

• What works in hotel meeting rooms and conference centres, and what do the rules ask of them?Partly answered

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