Hotels, conference centers, conventions, and corporate meeting rooms all have the challenge of catering to businesses and groups that speak multiple languages. In addition to providing language interpretation services, they also need to be able to provide hearing assistance, especially with the growing demand to meet new government accessibility (ADA) requirements.
Fortunately, new FM and Infrared technology have evolved to meet the needs of both hearing assistance and language translation, simultaneously. As a result, the participants improve their overall hearing and communication experience and venues improve their overall accommodations and retain customer satisfaction.
How the system works: For the IR System, the speaker(s) plugs their microphone (or sound system) directly into a modulator. For each language being spoken, the modulator designates a frequency: 2.3 MHz for English, 2.8 MHz for Spanish, 3.3 MHz for Korean, etc. The modulator processes each audio signal and sends them to an infrared emitter (the action is similar to a stereo system driving a pair of audio speakers). The emitter then transmits the audio signals simultaneously by infrared light waves throughout the listening audience. Participants wear specialized multi-channel receivers equipped with headphones (or earphones) so they can pick-up the audio and listen to the speaker in their native language. Participants can adjust the volume on their receiver to a comfortable listening level – they are given full control over their hearing assistance needs.
For FM Systems, the speaker would use a microphone and a transmitter to transmit the audio to the audience via an FM signal. The audience members could then hear the speaker better (if they are hard of hearing) or could hear their native language (if used for language translation) via their headphones and receivers. |
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