Posted past times Seang Chau, Vice President, Engineering
According to the World Health Organization1, simply about 466 ane thou 1000 people worldwide bring disabling hearing loss. This issue is expected to increase to 900 ane thou 1000 people past times the yr 2050. Google is working alongside GN Hearing to exercise a novel opened upward specification for hearing assistance streaming back upward on hereafter versions of Android. Users alongside hearing loss volition endure able to connect, pair, as well as monitor their hearing aids then they tin withdraw heed their phones loudly as well as clearly.
Hearing assistance users hold off a high quality, depression latency sense alongside minimal deport on on telephone as well as hearing assistance battery life. We've published a novel hearing assistance spec for Android smartphones: Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) on Bluetooth Low Energy Connection-Oriented Channels. ASHA is designed to bring a minimal deport on on battery life alongside low-latency land maintaining a high character well sense for users who rely on hearing aids. We aspect forwards to continually evolving the spec to fifty-fifty meliorate encounter the needs of our users.
The spec details the pairing as well as connectivity, network topology, organization architecture, as well as organization requirements for implementing hearing aids using depression liberate energy connection-oriented channels. Any hearing assistance manufacturer tin immediately construct native hearing assistance back upward for Android.
The protocol specification is available here.
