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Listening systems for hearing impaired people

From https://assistivelisteningknowledgebase.org/evidence/uq-listening-systems/ · record checked 13 October 2026

  • University of Queensland
  • University of Queensland, my.UQ

Independent (University of Queensland describes its own teaching-space services)

Summary

University guidance listing infrared and Auracast provision, broadcast identifiers and semester-long receiver loans.

Key findings

  • The Borrowing an IR receiver section explicitly describes the loan as free and lasting a semester. The Auracast broadcast systems section allows listeners to provide their own compatible device or borrow a receiver.
  • The university identifies infrared and Auracast as its two main teaching-space listening systems and says its IR receivers work with all IR systems used in its lecture theatres.
  • Auracast is enabled in St Lucia rooms seating 300 or more and selected other spaces. A room list gives broadcast identifiers, with building-room naming explained below it.
  • Both infrared and Auracast receivers can be borrowed for a semester from the Central Library AskUs desk. Auracast borrowers are asked to bring headphones with a 3.5 mm cable; the receiver instructions also describe connecting a neckloop.
  • The Auracast loan-receiver instructions describe scanning for broadcasts and switching between nearby broadcasts. The page links students to disability services.

Limits

Undated operational guidance read on 13 October 2026. Availability and instructions are university statements, with no occupied-room coverage, delay, speech-understanding or user-study results. Generic phone and hearing-device instructions are not an independently tested compatibility list; no inference that ordinary Bluetooth devices support Auracast is made.

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my.uq.edu.au/node/2178

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University of Queensland. Listening systems for hearing impaired people. University of Queensland, my.UQ. n.d. https://my.uq.edu.au/node/2178 (accessed 13 October 2026).

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