{"id":155711,"date":"2025-03-13T21:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/android-is-adding-auracast-support-which-allows-hearing-aids-to-connect-to-public-audio-broadcasts-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T21:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:07:40","slug":"android-is-adding-auracast-support-which-allows-hearing-aids-to-connect-to-public-audio-broadcasts-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/android-is-adding-auracast-support-which-allows-hearing-aids-to-connect-to-public-audio-broadcasts-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Android is adding Auracast support, which allows hearing aids to connect to public audio broadcasts | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/feed\/auracast-hearing-aids-earbuds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Auracast, compatible hearing aids and earbuds can receive direct audio streams, such as a PA system at a train station or an audio broadcast at a concert. Google notes that hearing aid presets can be applied to these broadcasts, which means users can personalize streams to their hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At launch, the feature is coming to Samsung Galaxy phones with One UI 7 and Google Pixel 9 phones running the latest Android 16 beta. The feature works with compatible LE Audio hearing aids, including ones from companies like GN Hearing and Starkey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google also announced that Pixel 9 devices can now connect to broadcasts through QR codes, which removes the need for people to go into their settings when trying to access a public broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest Android 16 beta also brings a new accessibility feature that will allow users with low vision to outline text in order to make it easier to read. It also includes a Local Network Protection (LNP) feature that Google says will give \u201cusers more control over which apps can access devices on their local network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Android 16 is expected to launch sometime in June. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/13\/android-is-adding-auracast-support-which-allows-hearing-aids-to-connect-to-public-audio-broadcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments. With Auracast, compatible hearing aids and earbuds can receive direct audio streams, such as a PA system at a train station or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}