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May 13, 2020

Our Essential Role in Communication: Resources That Can Help

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*Information updated on April 23, 2024

With May Is Better Hearing Month, this is an important time to continue to highlight our essential role in communication and hearing health care.

With this in mind, we have developed information pieces and resources you can use with your patients and/or share with your communities, colleagues, and other health-care providers as you see fit.

  • Hearing Assistance Apps…Until You Can Get to an Audiologist 

Captioning Options

Here is a helpful list of captioning options you may want to consider.

ZOOM & Microsoft Teams: Live captions can be enabled for video meetings.

  • Closed Captions
  • Use Live Captions in Teams Meeting

Microsoft Office (Powerpoint 365 and Word): Transcribe your words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language or a different language

  • Present with Real-Time Automatic Captions
  • Dictate Your Documents in Word

Google Voice (Google Doc and Google Slides): Use real-type captioning for documents or presentations.

  • Google Voice for Transcripts
  • Help: Present Slides with Captions

Smartphone Apps: Use Android: Live Transcribe app (Google Play Store; free) or iOS: Notes app (iOS store; free; use mic, don’t type).

  • AVA Pro: Android and Apple
  • Google Play: Live Transcribe
  • iPhone, iPod, and/or iPad
    • Use Live Captions Accessibility feature
    • Use Notes

All May Is Better Hearing Month Resources

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