Google introduced on Thursday that Android telephones will quickly help Auracast, a brand new Bluetooth expertise that makes use of a telephone to allow a direct connection from listening to aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments.
With Auracast, appropriate listening to aids and earbuds can obtain direct audio streams, akin to a PA system at a prepare station or an audio broadcast at a live performance. Google notes that listening to assist presets might be utilized to those broadcasts, which suggests customers can personalize streams to their listening to.
At launch, the characteristic is coming to Samsung Galaxy telephones with One UI 7 and Google Pixel 9 telephones working the most recent Android 16 beta. The characteristic works with appropriate LE Audio listening to aids, together with ones from corporations like GN Listening to and Starkey.
Google additionally introduced that Pixel 9 units can now hook up with broadcasts by QR codes, which removes the necessity for folks to enter their settings when making an attempt to entry a public broadcast.
The most recent Android 16 beta additionally brings a brand new accessibility characteristic that can permit customers with low imaginative and prescient to stipulate textual content with the intention to make it simpler to learn. It additionally features a Native Community Safety (LNP) characteristic that Google says will give “customers extra management over which apps can entry units on their native community.”
Android 16 is anticipated to launch someday in June.