Comfort Audio Contego® Helps Courtrooms Secure Proceedings
Chicago, IL – Security in the courtroom just improved as non-secure assisted listening devices
(ALD) for the hard of hearing (HoH) are being replaced by a wireless digital High-Definition ALD
system developed by Comfort Audio. The Comfort Contego® HD Courtroom Listening System
keeps what is said in the courtroom behind closed doors and improves conditions for the ADA dependent
hearing impaired public, jurors, defendants, lawyers, court reporters and interpreters.
Patrik Liljekvist, Sales & Marketing Director North, Central & South America for Comfort Audio
explains the technology stating, "Quite simply, we’ve developed a secure system that sends the
coded radio transmission digitally over secure channels. There’s nothing to install and it works
right out of the box. And as of today, we’re the only manufacturer that can provide this encryption,
portability, versatility and HD quality sound securely to customers."
The issues of access and security are often challenged by ethics and
policy. Shannon Elizabeth Smith, Director of Hard of Hearing Services
for the State of New Mexico Commission for Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Persons explains their decision. "As an individual who not only works with
individuals with hearing loss, but has one myself, the courtroom is a
very intimidating place when you can not access communication. The
Comfort Contego offers not only high sound quality and multiple alternatives to work with different
hearing aids and hearing losses, but the confidentiality we require. To know that I can use the
Comfort Contego and maintain the highest level of privacy and confidentiality makes this product
the top selection for me."
From ominous rooms with poor acoustics to witnesses with poor projection hearing what is said in
the courtroom has historically been a challenge for court reporters, interpreters, and attorneys
charged with getting it all on the record. Comfort Audio has developed proprietary noise-filtering
processes to deliver clear, enhanced sound to make their job easier, and the record more
accurate. Hearing-aid users with a T-coil or personal headset can access this same audio feed to
expand its accessibility.
About Comfort Audio
Comfort Audio is a Swedish-based specialist in Assistive Listening Devices and Systems, with a
North & South American Headquarters in Park Ridge, Illinois. Comfort Audio provides products to
help improve work environments, promote learning in schools, and assist individuals with hearing
loss.
To learn more about the Comfort Contego® HD Listening System and other products Comfort
Audio has developed please visit http://www.ComfortAudio.us
News & Events.
All the latest news and events from Comfort Audio:
April 14-17, 2010
Audiology NOW!
Academy Research Conference (ARC) 2010
San Diego, California
Comfort Audio, Inc. will be participating at the Audiology NOW! Conference in beautiful San Diego.
Visit the website
March 2, 2009
Inger Rydin new Managing Director at Comfort Audio
Monday, 2nd March, Inger Rydin will take office as new Managing Director at Comfort Audio. The Halmstad based company with 43 employees which develops, produces and sells assistive listening devices thus strengthens its position.
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October 24, 2008
Comfort Audio's Canadian distributor has been awarded a contract with La Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec to supply the Comfort Contego® to the Québec Ministry of Health for the next 2 years.
The contract lasts from October 2008 to October 2010 and authorizes Comfort Contego® to be sold through all the dispensing clinics in Québec that are listed with RAMQ.
October 14, 2008
Comfort Audio Contego® Helps Courtrooms Secure Proceedings
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Events.
Comfort Audio and our distributors are often out meeting customers.
Here are some places that we are going to attend:
Comfort Audio opens Sales and new US HQ office in Park Ridge, IL USA May 1st
Comfort Audio started almost 2 years ago with operations in Culver
City, CA US. Our growth in the US has led us to open up a new office in
Park Ridge, IL, US. As of May the 1st the new address will be:
Comfort Audio Inc
350 South Northwest Highway, Suite 300
Park Ridge, IL 60068
USA
T (847) 656 5450
F (847) 656 5201
E usa@comfortaudio.com
