Products intended to support or replace a person’s capacity to receive, send, produce and process information in different forms, including communicating by language, signs and symbols, receiving and producing messages, carrying on conversations and using communication devices and techniques. Included are, e.g. devices for seeing, hearing, reading, writing, telephoning, signalling and alarming, information technology. Assistive products for office administration, information storage and management. at work, see >28 21

Devices for recording and playback of sounds. Included are, e.g. reel-to-reel and all types of tape recorders, index tone generators, demagnetizers, digital audio playback and recording devices such as minidiscs, CD players and DAISY players.

Note recorders and dictaphones, recording in digital format. With internal and/or external memory.

Hardware devices for recording and/or replaying digital books, e.g. in DAISY format.

Devices for saving and playing visual images and motion pictures on tape or other electronic media. Included are, e.g. cameras, video players, digital video recorders and players.

Included are, e.g. radio sets.

Devices for receiving and transmitting mainly one to one remote radio communication. Included are, e.g. Citizens Band (CB), Family Radio Services (FRS), General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS), marine radios.

Included are, e.g. digital and high definition televisions.

Closed systems for transmitting images with a camera to a recorder or direct displaying. in a remote location. Image-enlarging video systems, see >220318. Monitoring and positioning systems, see >222724

Devices for translating videotext into artificial speech and decoding spoken output to provide video captions. Excluded are speech recognition systems.

Hardware or software systems for decoding spoken output to provide video captions

Harware or software systems that allow to prepare captioning in advance (not in real time)

Devices for receiving or transmitting high-frequency modulated electromagnetic waves. Included are, e.g. systems, transmitters and receivers for local one-way communication. Assistive products for hearing, see >22 06

Devices for receiving or transmitting audio information using infrared light. Included are, e.g. systems, transmitters and receivers for local one-way communication, e.g. personal remote voice transmission and voice transmission systems for auditorium. Assistive products for hearing, see >22 06. Assistive products for controlling from a distance, see >24 13

Devices for receiving or transmitting information using electromagnetic waves in. induction loop systems. Included are, e.g. audio-frequency and carrier-frequency induction loop systems, induction loop receivers. Assistive products for hearing, see >22 06

Amplifiers for small loops, designed for one person. Included are, e.g., pillow loops, neck loops and clip-on equipment transmitting audio magnetically by using the pick-up loop inside the users hearing aids.

Loop amplifiers using electromagnetic waves to transmit audio information to hearing aids. Designed for use in one or more rooms.

Passive induction-loops without built-in amplifiers.

Included are, e.g. headset microphones.

Included are, e.g. devices that increase the volume of TVs, radios, stereos or are used. together with communication amplifiers. Assistive products that record, play and display audio and visual information, see >22 18