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ListenWIFI
ListenWIFI
ListenWIFI is a Wi-Fi-based assistive listening and live language interpretation system in use in some meetinghouses in the United States and a couple other locations in the world. With ListenWIFI, audio from the chapel sound system — and other rooms with sound systems — is streamed over the meetinghouse’s wireless network to an app downloaded to church members’ smartphones. They can access multiple audio streams anywhere Wi-Fi is available in the meetinghouse.
Benefits for Church Attendees
- Enables attendees to access interpretation or assistive listening on their smartphones with either wired headphones (recommended), neck loops (works with telecoil-enabled hearing aids or cochlear implants), or Bluetooth earbuds or hearing aids.
- Eliminates the need to borrow radio frequency (RF) devices from the meetinghouse library and reduces the stigma of needing to ask for special assistance.
- Since attendees can use their own smartphones instead of loaner devices, there are fewer issues with broken or lost equipment, drained batteries, or cleaning of the devices.
- In some meetinghouses, ListenWIFI enables attendees to move from the chapel to a classroom and find an audio stream.
Note: For assistive listening and/or interpretation to be available in other areas of the building (such as the Relief Society room, cultural hall, or Primary room), instructors/interpreters must use a microphone plugged into the appropriate input jack in the room. Not all meetinghouses are equipped with these microphone input jacks in rooms besides the chapel.
Narrated Overview
Narrated Overview (9 min). Gives an overview of ListenWIFI, its key features and benefits, and some responsibilities of ward leaders, temporary support personnel, interpreters, technology specialists and stake building reps.
Printable Instructions
- Stake Technology Specialists
- Ward Leaders
- Language Interpreters
- Church Attendees
- Using the Manufacturer (Loaner) Audio Receiver
- Using the ListenWIFI App on a Personal Smartphone. The 1-page handouts linked in the table below can be printed and distributed to Church attendees who wish to use the ListenWIFI app. Printing in color would be ideal, but black-and-white prints will suffice.