In the face of the pandemic, the BYOD (bring your own device) culture has gone from trendy to necessary.
Businesses around the globe are required to have employees physically distancing and wearing masks while on the job. In courtrooms and other government buildings, quietly conferring about sensitive or confidential matters is difficult if not impossible. In classrooms,teachers and professors are routinely losing their voices because they have to raise their voices to be heard through masks.
Having a pro-BYOD policy, along with the right technology, allows employees, students, and others to continue to communicate, work, and experience social events under these new conditions. With its latest free software update for designated private audio channels, Listen EVERYWHERE is the right solution to help businesses, courtrooms, classrooms, and more stay open while keeping employees and patrons safe.
Private Channels
Listen EVERYWHERE private channels allows for an added measure of security while adhering to social distancing mandates and the peace of mind associated with using one’s own device. Administrators, IT personnel, and professors can designate channels as private on their network protected by a password. Users can then access the audio using the password, preventing anyone else from listening.
Keeping information, conversations, and lectures secure is essential for venue administrators, professors, and IT personnel. Physically distancing can make it almost impossible since meeting in enclosed spaces and sitting near each other is unadvised and, in some cases, in violation of the law.
As an example, a network administrator can set up a private channel for a board meeting in which members are sitting in different areas of the building to maintain physical distancing. A professor can designate a channel as private to broadcast a closed-class lecture to multiple classrooms. In addition, organizers of a drive-in event can prevent non-patrons from streaming the audio.
More Highlights
The new features of Listen EVERYWHERE make the system an essential tool for venues of any kind, including:
System flexibility with any combination of public and private channels
Easy password management for administrators
New admin section on the mobile app for simple setup from a smart device
Compatible with iOS and Android devices
Free upgrade for new and existing customers
“As BYOD trends increase and people maintain physical distance from others in the workplace, schools, and drive-in worship services, Listen EVERYWHERE plays a crucial role in helping them hear and engage safely,” says Maile Keone, president of Listen Technologies.
More than ever, Listen EVERYWHERE is the right solution to help venues and businesses stay open while keeping staff members, patrons, and others safe. With private channels for added security and additional app features, it’s the ideal technology to enhance the necessary BYOD culture.
To upgrade your Listen EVERYWHERE server, watch this video:
To setup and use the new private channels feature, watch this video:
For more information about Listen EVERYWHERE and the latest update, go to listentech.com/listen-everywhere/ or call (888) 296-1623, or +1-801-233-8992.
It’s no secret: 2020 has been a challenging year. We don’t need to list the ways—everyone already knows. Despite—and because of—the challenges of 2020, we have a lot for which we are grateful. Above all, we are thankful for you, our partners and customers, who have contributed to our continued success.
We appreciate your patronage, the time you spent with us this year, and your willingness to engage with our brand. Without you, we would not be where we are today. Together, we have adjusted to the radical changes in the world, made new strides in accessibility and inclusion, and found reasons to look forward with hope.
Pivoting to a New Normal
You were willing to explore new applications for our products in the new normal. You pivoted with us to focus on how we can help during the pandemic. Then you adapted when necessary and found new ways to use our products to communicate while physically distancing, such as hosting drive-in events and finding use in courtrooms, college campuses, and manufacturing plants.
We’re a better company and better people because of your feedback and participation.
Continuing to Bridge the Gap
This year, we have been able to help bridge the gap in accessibility and inclusion, even in the face of a pandemic. People using our physical distancing and assistive listening products—likeListenTALK and Listen EVERYWHERE—are communicating safely. We couldn’t help them stay safe without the assistance of you, our partners and customers.
We hope all our interactions reflect this gratitude. It’s a privilege and honor to serve you. All of us at Listen Technologies—and our families—are grateful.
A Better Year on the Horizon
Because of you, we can look ahead toward 2021 with hope. We’re looking forward to a better year and building even stronger relationships, along with new products and updates, applications, and services.
We’ve learned an important lesson this year: We are all in this together. We wish you a happy Thanksgiving season and hope that, however you are spending the holiday, you feel love, joy, and gratitude.
As always, pleaselet us know if there are additional ways we can help you be successful.
Guided tours of popular manufacturing facilities/factories, from breweries to aircraft manufacturers, provide visitors with a unique and memorable behind-the-scenes look at the manufacturing process. Some manufacturing facilities, however, can provide a challenge due to their noise level. In these cases, a tour system equipped with noise reduction headphones may be required to both help guests hear the tour guide and to provide guests with adequate hearing protection. This document will provide an overview of how noise reduction rated headphones are rated and how they perform based on their Noise Reduction Rating (NRR).
You’re hearing it from every direction and it all fits into the same sort of bucket, “COVID-19 is doing ‘xyz thing’ to ‘xyz industry’ and ‘you need to think about abc solution’ or else ‘abc thing will happen’.
Maybe it’s just me. I am in marketing after all and we tend to be dramatic. What grinds me however, are all the people I’m hearing from LOVE to talk in vague terms that make them sound smart without giving any practical advice. They use big words to explain how we should be ‘thinking differently’ but offer very little in terms of actionable information. I’m here asking you to read this message because I HATE ethereal jargon and I know you have more important things to do with your time than be placated.
All that said your business does have a social distancing problem to solve.
Plan Now for the Impact of Social Distancing
It should be evident based on how each and every government has handled the pandemic, regardless of your opinion on their methods or outcomes, that social distancing is the new normal. Even if a vaccine is created soon the lingering effects on our collective psyche will permanently adjust human behavior. People will ask about it, best practices will be written on it and it’s time you start planning for it.
In my work here at Listen Technologies I interact mostly with manufacturing facilities that come to us because they offer group tours of their facility, or because they train employee groups out on a noisy or open floor. However, we also see a lot of college campuses, museums and groups involved in legal proceedings come to us for our portable group communication system.
The original intent is based on our systems ability to deliver clear audio to a group under any circumstances, whether it’s dealing with noise from a machine, or wanting to stay whisper quiet during a museum tour, or being so spaced out that you literally couldn’t hear each other.
Now, manufacturers and other business leaders are coming to us because this same system will allow them to maintain social distancing protocols while performing critical job functions. Conagra Foods was deemed essential during the shelter in place orders but couldn’t continue operations until they implemented social distancing. Well how are you supposed to interact over noise without being closer than 6 feet apart?
Well, using a ListenTALK system anyone in the group can be within a 200m radius of the designated leader and still hear the audio as if, or sometimes better, than if they were standing right next to each other. Before the outbreak if you had people needing to communicate in a noisy or large open space they could just stand closer together, or shout if they had to, today that would be impossible and irresponsible. The danger you face is if you think once the pandemic is over that you can go back to standing within inches and shouting.
Remember when I told you I wouldn’t speak in ethereal terms?
Well here it is – if you don’t figure out a way for your groups to communicate while maintaining social distancing guidelines you will lose money.
You’re going to lose employees who don’t want to be at risk, you’ll lose customers who don’t see you adjusting and you’ll lose opportunities to win new business because you’re not adjusting to the new landscape.
Yes, it is very self-serving for me to paint this picture of your business being at risk unless you buy our product, but that doesn’t make it any less true. If that takes away from my credibility and you want to feel like I’m slightly more altruistic, then let me tell you while I’d prefer you buy ListenTALK system, at the end of the day you can buy any group communication system and still solve your problem. What I care most about is giving you practical advice on how to adjust early to account for what’s coming during the next few weeks, months and years.
Systems like ListenTALK are the exact solution you need to solve the social distancing problem. We have competing products for sure, Williams Sound, Sennheiser, cheap no-name stuff from China you can get on Amazon – there are a lot of options for portable group communication systems.
Why Choose ListenTALK
Your system choices fall into 2 categories, budget and quality.
Budget – The cheap stuff from China that you can buy off Amazon will give you a poor experience. Will it solve your problem? Yes, but only on the surface. It’s like saying getting food through an IV keeps you alive. It may solve your nutritional requirements but you’d never want to live that way. The audio quality is bad, the range is limited, they’re hard to use and you spend more time fiddling with the settings than you do giving your tour or training which creates a bad experience, damages your brand, your ability to effectively train etc etc.
If you’re going to make the investment, invest in something you’d WANT to live with.
Quality – ListenTALK, Digi-wave and Sennheiser are all quality systems. We’re all professional audio engineers and we can all make a device that provides audio quality on par or better than a cell phone, or digitally enhanced land-line. You won’t get static, you won’t have any echo and in most cases you can have a 2-way system where participants can actually talk back to the leader and each other.
What sets ListenTALK apart is that we designed the system to be technically superior while also being easy to use. You get all the benefits without a learning curve or complicated system management.
From the devices themselves, to the ability to customize your system with different headsets and docking stations, you’ll get the best quality system, customized specifically for your noise environment, designed to be so easy to use you’ll forget it’s there.
This is as ethereal as my article gets because up until you have a system in your hands you’ll have to believe what I’m typing. Well, let’s solve that problem too.
I can get you a demo kit, customized with all kinds of headgear for you to try out, for free for 30 days. We’ll cover shipping both ways, all I’m going to ask is to keep a credit card on file just to make sure I get the kit back.
You can try it in your facility, with your staff, on a mock tour, whatever you want to do you can try for 30 days. If you need more time because of a shelter in place mandate you won’t be alone. Coke, Leisure Pools and Spas, the Corvette Museum, Hobas Pipe – everyone needs to extend their demo kit times and we’re happy to accommodate that.
Don’t wait 6 to 9 months to decide you need to solve the social distancing problem. Let us get you a solution now so you can make a plan today. You don’t even have to take my word for it – call me on it, let me send you a kit and you can tell me whether or not ListenTALK will add value to your business.
If you’re not ready for a demo kit, download our Social Distancing with ListenTALK 1-sheet guide, and start talking about how you’re going to handle this for your business.
Social distancing won’t go away in 6 months, request a demo kit right now.
In the last few months, COVID-19 has spread around the world, infecting hundreds of thousands of people. Now, more than ever, people are looking for comfort in faith and the support of religion, unfortunately, gathering in large groups is discouraged. How can we stay connected to our congregation during a worldwide pandemic? Some houses of worship are trying to stay connected via social media or host services that are live-streamed and facilitating video chats, but the feeling of community is lost.
Many communication devices operate on radio frequency (RF) devices like radios, Wi-Fi routers, Bluetooth devices and a host of others. DECT is a specific RF technology that gives device manufacturers more control over how their communications products operate.
As the leading manufacturer of assistive listening and
tour audio products, Listen Technologies understands that your patrons’ health
and safety is your top priority—and that makes it our top priority as well.
That’s why our products are easy to sanitize and disinfect.
Noise-induced hearing loss is still a significant problem. An estimated 242 million dollars are spent on worker’s compensation claims for hearing loss annually.
Companies could improve by shifting their efforts to more long-term, sustainable methods for managing noise exposure.
Personal protective equipment is only effective if sized and used correctly.
Standardization is often the underappreciated key to the success of many of today’s most inventive companies. Although headlines emphasize the brave steps forward that resulted in brilliant innovations, we sometimes forget what happens next. How a company implements an innovation is what actually creates lasting changes.
Try to recall the last time you were a member of an audience. It could be a tour, a conference, or a gathering. Do you remember the sounds of the group, the occasional cough, the shuffle of people moving, and the person next you whispering to ask what the leader just said?
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