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I have a question regarding this, if one has the ReSound Nexia which is compatible and the is paired () to a Cochlear processor (N7 that is not LE Audio compatible yet, I suppose the N8 too–as it’s yet to get the FW update) will the ReSound stream the broadcast to the cochlear? I am not quiet sure if that’s how it works, Does streaming to one of them means streaming to both?
Because if that’s the case then a compatible hearing aids would be very much worth it.

I wonder if it discussed here before or maybe someone tried it.

With Starkey’s announcement, that’s Oticon, Signia, Resound, Starkey, and Phonak (with future firmware update) all with in their current models. When Phonak flicks the switch it becomes a de facto industry-wide standard. Will it now become a mandated assistive technology, dragging Apple into the fold and launching a viable ecosystem?

Apple is waiting for the smoke to settle and le audio and aurcast to become stable. Apple came up with MFI and it is goinng to drag it out as long as possible. When Apple starts seeing lost sells due to MFI and sees that people are walking away from it due to le audio then it will accept it likr Apple invented it.

@cvkemp said:

Apple is waiting for the smoke to settle and le audio and aurcast to become stable.

Perhaps it’s not too likely, but I was wondering when they issue the firmware update for the AirPod Pro 2 to make it an official , whether they’d spring for at that point (with an iOS update for that, too). The reason being that the battery runtime of the AirPod Pro2 is really not good enough for all-day HA function. LE Audio might extend the battery runtime to make use of AirPod Pro 2s as OTCs more feasible. If Apple waits too long, they may lose a bunch of folks like me who left Android for HAs.

I left iphone and went back home to Samsung and Android because never lived up to the claims.

I created the following perplexity ai page (it cites every fact that it spouts) just to be useful intro/summary of the feature.
I used it to search about a bunch of keywords specially to educate myself after I read that having Bluetooth 5.2+ doesn’t mean it’s (and ) compatible automatically.

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/bluetooth-le-audio-and-auracas-9ypauFjPTN.GRU5taHwhBw13

Notably the Airpods pro 2 and all the iPhones (at least up to 15) are NOT LE Audio compatible, no software updates would bring a missing support for protocol (Isochronous Adaptation Layer) in the hardware. The Bluetooth SIG listing for those chips (H2 and A) say that so, I found some of them online (I am not a SIG member).

No idea about the M chips in the Macs tho, couldn’t find their chip listing. But yeah, seems like Apple didn’t “secretly” put in LE Audio support in the hardware, despite AirPods Pro 2 and iPhones being 5.3 since iPhone 14; there’s no server-side switch to enable LE Audio.
It has to be a new device.

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I ran across this while searching and iphone. This leads me to believe that an iphone does not need to be or Auracast capable “The Auracast™ assistant is an embodiment of the Broadcast Assistant – a totally new concept in Bluetooth® audio. It exists to support the new Auracast™ broadcast audio use cases, allowing users to discover and select an audio stream, yet it does not transmit, receive, or render audio itself. The Broadcast Assistant is defined as a role in BAP [1], which can be implemented in devices as diverse as phones, remote controls, fobs, or charging cases, where it adds new functionality to an existing product.” So we would only need a new app to enable an Auracast hearing aid to receive broadcasts using existing phones. I would think that an assistant function can be added to our hearing aid apps.

Didn’t they say in this video that LE audio, that posted early in this thread, can be implemented through software or hardware. So will an app work or will Apple have to change their OS to make it work?

LE Audio and the Future of Hearing | Bluetooth® Technology Website3

Learn how Bluetooth® will improve the lives of people with hearing loss and introduce a new generation of hearing aids and assistive listening systems…

@user990 said:

Didn’t they say in this video that LE audio, that posted early in this thread

Good to give time in the video if you can so the rest of us don’t have to watch the whole video to find what you’re referring to! Just a suggestion. Thanks for the comment.

Android 15 came out yesterday for Pixel phones. Disappointingly, there’s still no way to see broadcasts or share audio. Both functionalities were in the betas, but didn’t make it to final release. They’ll arrive in a future feature update supposedly.

The word “experimental” still appears next to the switch to turn on in an enabled device’s Bluetooth settings. That doesn’t inspire confidence either.

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