Listen Technologies Corporation

There are two ways to customize ListenPoint. This blog post presents step by step instruction on how to customize ListenPoint using the front panel of the ListenPoint Control Unit.

The Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP) continues to offer an outstanding array of plays, musicals, and unique adult and child educational programming towards achieving its mission of enriching the Omaha community through great theatre. The OCP is also committed to serving its patrons with assistive listening and audio description services. Read More

One of my favorite offerings of the InfoComm trade show is the AV Technology Tours. The 2010 AV Technology Tours will visit technical and entertainment venues in Las Vegas, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how leading edge AV technology has been implemented. Read More

This blog post provides a simple overview of a Listen Tour Group System. Read More

The Road Home is an organization that not only helps to provide temporary basic needs to those without a home, but more importantly they also work to get them integrated back into the community. Read More

Navigating the digital signage industry at a trade show can prove to be an overwhelming experience for any trade show visitor. Minicom Digital Signage has designed a solution with its “Digital Signage Expert Tours.” Read More

As I began to write this blog about member benefits at InfoComm, it struck me that trying to do that, or, for that matter, list them, is not unlike the overwhelming experience of reading a spiral bound menu with 200 items. How do find what you really want, remember what there is to offer, or choose what will satisfy your need/craving? Read More

I love it when a special occasion is recognized or experienced in a unique and untraditional way – the less obvious the better. Read More

Scott McGinnis leads the AV team at Coors Field and they make sure that baseball fans can fully experience a Colorado Rockies game.

InfoComm makes it easy to get involved in AV Week, so if you could make one resolution in the New Year, make a commitment to celebrate AV Week - October 17 - 23, 2010. Read More

Our ability to hear is often challenged. About 10% of the population has a physical hearing impairment. In addition, there are many circumstances where environmental conditions prevent us from hearing. This post will explore these two types of hearing impairment and how assistive listening can help overcome these challenges.

Listen's assistive listening products can be used in many different ways.  Audio description allows a person with sight impairment to hear a discription of the movie.  Read More

Events that require language interpretation are often challenged by time requirements, space limitations, physical location of equipment and interpreters, and the need to link different locations together. The ability to perform remote language interpretation is a solution to these challenges.  Remote language interpretation is a term that refers to a situation where language interpretation is being performed with either the participants in need of language support or the interpreter providing the language support are located remotely. 

At our recent sales conference (Winterfest) in Salt Lake City, much of the conversation focused on social media and how we can use it to communicate with customers and grow our collective business.  Read More

Campbell County High School, home of the Campbell County Camels installed a new track and field this year and needed to get audio to the far side of their stadium. Read More

n a previous blog post we discussed the actions needed to program an FM receiver. This post will focus on the programming of Listen’s two Stationary IR receivers: LR-42 and LR-44. Using video for presentation, the focus of the post is how to enter programming mode and how to lock/unlock the receiver on a channel.

Greetings all, this is Frank Frombach. Some of you may remember me in the past.  I had the opportunity to be a part of the Listen team for five years as National Product Specialist. I have been graciously invited by Russell Gentner to make a special guest blog appearance to share my experiences regarding three product applications that are being used in the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

I have been asked several times how Listen uses social media.  Maybe a more important question is: why does Listen use social media?

One of the many things I love about my job is knowing that what we do really does help people!

As AV industry professionals, we are often asked by our customers “what can I do to bring more energy and interaction to my meetings?”  The answer we often give them, which often surprises them, is “how about a voting system!”  And the common reply is “A voting system??? We aren’t that formal!”  Read More

As we develop new lines here at Listen Technologies, we often have a need to develop some new accessories to go along with them.

Every December Listen Technologies hosts Winterfest in Utah. Winterfest is Listen’s annual sales conference for its Independent Sales Representatives. Read More

Really?  Can a business successfully use Facebook to grow and communicate?  Read More

Looking for something fun to do? Do you know there are thousands of factories that offer guided tours?  Read More

Listen FM products offer several functions that can enhance the experience of the user. Read More

A conferencing microphone typically consists of a microphone, pushbutton and loudspeaker in a convenient self contained unit. Read More

Listen Technologies recommends transmitting no more than six (6) simultaneous FM channels on 72 MHz and three (3) simultaneous FM channels using the 216 MHz frequency band, in the general vicinity of each other. Read More

This year I had the privilege of visiting some wineries in California and in Italy. Read More

Rick Hanzlik, Technology Systems Project Manager had the responsibility for outfitting the Golden Spike Boardroom with its AV needs. Read More

Many of us have been a part of the evolution of listening to music via boom boxes, walkmans, MP3 players, iPods and cell phones. What’s cool about these kinds of devices is that we hear the music up close and personal. Using an assistive listening device is just as simple as using these devices. Read More

There’s a lot of talk about how to improve grades in the classroom. And with so much pressure on the budget, there’s a great concern that our students might not get the complete education they deserve. 

It’s true. Not only can Canadians dance, but they are using Listen to help them decide who is the best dancer in Canada.

I have often been asked the question, “I thought that language interpretation was a process where the presenter would speak a couple of sentences, and then the interpreter would repeat them in a different language, and they would take turns communicating the message? If so, what does your interpretation equipment do?

In September, Listen took part in the Court Technology Conference (CTC) show in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Skullcandy, Inc. is a manufacture of a whole new brand of headphones and earphones which has taken a dry, black and white commodity product headphone category, and in just a few short years, changed the way people think of, buy and sell these products, thus launching not only a product, but a brand that merges technology with action sports. Read More

October 18-24, 2009 is InfoComm AV Week. AV Week is an international celebration of the AV industry.

Many groups serving their community organizations have the challenge of conducting their meetings in less than ideal settings.

The LPT-M1 microphone is the center of the ListenPoint™ system.  It is elegantly designed yet robust for durable day to day use. Read More

Language Interpretation, which is an easier-to-digest term for simultaneous interpretation, is the procedure by which people that speak different languages can communicate with each other with only momentary time delay, using professional interpreters and specialized equipment.

The Hale Centre Theatre first became a Listen customer in 2003 when they contacted us looking for a replacement to their installed assistive listening system.  Read More

The Herberger Theater Center is a non-profit organization whose mission to be the premier performance venue to support and foster the growth of performing arts in Phoenix, Arizona. While they produce amazing plays, they also provide Assistive Listening to their patrons that are in need of some audio amplification. Read More

Listen products are incorporated as a key component in the hit Canadian cable TV show Cash Cab on the Discovery Channel.

Imagine having the option of attending classes “online” sitting in your PJs, with a big ice cold Coke and attending class as if you were actually there and still being able to hear the instructor and the students in the classroom. Read More

Listen tour group systems in use for Munich tours.

Imagine bringing hundreds of sales representatives and clients from all over the world to your facility for an annual meeting; only your facility is not equipped to manage the multiple language needs for your event.

Louise Sattler is a nationally certified school psychologist with specializations in linguistics and multi-cultural education. She has been teaching American Sign Language for more than 20 years to families with hearing and non-hearing children, college students, staff at public and private school systems and businesses.

Here at Listen, we use several types of transmission methods to transmit audio through the airwaves.  Read More

Tony Robbins has always had the ability to motivate me and get me to look at things a little differently.

A conference microphone is a device with a boom microphone (so the mic is closer to your mouth) and a built in speaker.

Having established a Listen Europe, Middle East, Africa and India subsidary about 2 years ago I realize that some of our partners are still not aware that there is an additional contact point within the Listen team. Read More

Jeroen Smit of  Clairty Audio Systems in El Dorado Hills California recently did an install with the Listen FM Products for the Timber Creek Lodge.  Read More

So what’s with this social media fad?  Read More

Billed as the world’s largest community theatre, the Omaha Community Playhouse offers opportunities in performing, technical work, and support categories to more than 2,000 community volunteers. Read More

Two of the most anticipated events of the Listen calendar year are the annual summer party and golf tournament.

Listen’s exclusive line of state-of-the-art products and technologies are diverse enough for use in auditory assistance, soundfield situations, tour groups and even language interpretation.

ListenPoint™ is a new product line under our SoundField solution category and we have high expectations as it has been under development longer than any other product line we’ve developed.  Read More

Listen has recently begun to embrace and encourage social media. Read More

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