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"Auracast is Here!" Now What?

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/sterkens-2025-hearingtracker-auracast/ · record checked 10 October 2026

  • Sterkens J
  • HearingTracker (opinion section)

Nonprofit advocacy (written by Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD, who according to the author profile has worked since 2012 as an advocate for hearing loops and other assistive technology with the Hearing Loss Association of America, with grant funding from the David and Carol Myers Foundation; published by HearingTracker, a consumer hearing-aid website)

Summary

A loop advocate's article on what Auracast means for hearing aid users and venues, including the author's own listening test in a church with an Auracast receiver and a neckloop.

Key findings

  • Describes a February 2025 test in a small Illinois church with an Ampetronic/Listen Auri transmitter at 50% power sending two streams: a lower bit rate for hearing aids and assistive listening, and a higher one for wireless earphones.
  • The author listened with open-fit receiver-in-canal hearing aids, more than three years old, set to telecoil, through an Auri receiver with a neckloop, and reports with the lower-bit-rate stream "great speech quality, similar to what I have experienced in well-installed hearing loops".
  • Reports that earbuds, an Auri receiver with headphones and ReSound Nexia hearing aids worked similarly, with little perceptible latency throughout the sanctuary.
  • States that the ADA requires facilities with an assistive listening system to provide receivers with headphones, or neckloops for hearing aid users with telecoils, and that installing an Auracast transmitter without receivers "will NOT meet the ADA requirements".
  • Calls for hearing instruments with both Auracast and telecoils, which the author calls "ADA-Access-Ready", and for push-button connection to broadcasts similar to switching to a telecoil.

Limits

One listener in one room, with no measurements of field strength, frequency response or latency, and no statement of how the equipment was obtained. The author advocates hearing loops. The page was last modified on 14 April 2025.

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Sterkens J. "Auracast is Here!" Now What? HearingTracker (opinion section). 2 April 2025. https://www.hearingtracker.com/opinion/auracast-is-here-now-what (accessed 10 October 2026).

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