A few days ago, Apple released its traditional and emotional Christmas ad focusing on the hearing health function of AirPods; A father with a hearing problem was listening to his daughter play the guitar and was remembering how he did this when he gave her her first guitar. small guitar

Now Sarah HerrlingerApple’s director of accessibility talked about the hearing health of AirPods and shared some of his thoughts and opinions in an interview with Forbes. The company’s efforts to create healthcare functions How are you.

AirPods’ hearing health feature launched earlier this year and Helps people with hearing problems hear more clearly everything that’s going on around you.

Only 25% of users with hearing problems get the help they need

Sarah Herrlinger wanted to emphasize: Apple commitment As it continues to help its users through services such as the health functions of Apple Watch and AirPods. They want Apple to make their technology accessible to everyone. According to Sarah Herrlinger, More than 1.5 billion people worldwide have hearing problems and a study by the company with the bitten apple logo shows that 75% of these people “are not getting the help they need.”

Apple became the first technology company to use Bluetooth LE for audio. The first LEA (Low Energy Audio) protocol to emit sound from a smartphone for hearing health. Sarah noted that Apple has since introduced accessibility features like the hearing test function, hearing aid function, and hearing protection function, which were included in the latest update of the AirPods Pro 2.

Apple believes AirPods Pro 2’s hearing health functions offer a “unique hearing health experience,” saying: is the result of “years of learning” by software engineers, designers and acoustics experts to excellent functionality.

Watch Apple’s latest commercial for AirPods’ health features in this emotional Christmas video:

Last year, Apple also focused on the accessibility features of its devices with an advertising spot called “The Lost Voice” at the end of November. On this occasion, a father with speech problems told a story to his daughter using the Personal Voice function, which is responsible for reading the sentences he entered into the iPhone using his own voice. You can see this beautiful ad below.

Apple is also working on new ways. Improve users’ lives with artificial intelligence with functions based on eye tracking, voice recognition or AssistiveTouch. Apple does a great job with this kind of thing and has become one of the companies that cares most about the health of its users.

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