#177 Action Audio: Revolutionising sports for audiences with visual impairments

🎙️ On today's episode of The SportsTech AllStars Podcast we are joined by Tim Devine, Co-Founder of Action Audio, the world-first system for augmenting live sports with sound, designed to give people who are visually impaired the ability to follow games in real-time. Tim talks about his diverse background in music, sound design and sports, and how that confluence led him to co-founding a system in this space. He talks about Action Audio's work with multiple major tennis tournaments such as the Australian Open and the U.S. Open, and more recently with the NBA's Launchpad program and more. Developed in partnership with ⁠Tennis Australia⁠ and ⁠Monash University⁠, Action Audio uses data from a ball monitoring computer vision system to emphasise key moments of play with a 3D sound design system that has been developed with the blind and low vision community. For many visually impaired sports fans, Action Audio will provide the first opportunity to follow the speed and actions of a live game. To learn more, visit https://action-audio.com/ Hosted by Rohn Malhotra from SportsTechX - Data & Insights about SportsTech startups and the surrounding ecosystem.