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Support for ASHA hearing aids coming to Linux
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As you might expect, the last couple of decades have seen advances that allow consumer devices (such as phones, tablets, laptops, and TVs) to directly connect to hearing aids over Bluetooth. We did eventually get the proof-of-concept done, and this gave us confidence to move to the next step of integrating this into BlueZ -- albeit after a hiatus of paid work. This would allow BlueZ to perform privileged operations and then hand off a file descriptor for the connection-oriented channel, so that any userspace application (such as PipeWire) could actually stream audio to the hearing aid.
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