  Augmented alternating links are links obtained by adding trivial components
that bound twice-punctured disks to non-split reduced non-2-braid prime
alternating projections. These links are known to be hyperbolic. Here, we
extend to show that generalized augmented alternating links, which allow for
new trivial components that bound n-punctured disks, are also hyperbolic. As an
application we consider generalized belted sums of links and compute their
volumes.
