Mastodawn

Just wondering how many folks in the Fediverse are hard of hearing and wear #HearingAids?

I do - a combination of loud music, motorcycles and being around scuba air compressors rather a lot, plus I now have age-related deterioration beginning to kick in. I'm currently using bluetooth enabled hearing aids for the inevitable online calls, and over-the-ear headphones when I don't want the battery drain (currently Bose NC700s, but eyeing up the 2nd Gen Ultras that have been released…).

SnowyCA

3d ago

⚠️ Heads Up for Hearing Aid🦻 Users:

2 people
+ two sets Hearing Aids with BT
+2 cell phone apps (unsynced)
+2 laptops (unsynced) with BT capability
+one wifi
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Do not buy the same brand (Signa) and model hearing aids
Our hearing aids were connecting to each others computers and the company cell phone app and interfering, cross connecting and adjusting our devices!
Apparently the company is unaware and "helpless" !!

The $8,000.00 tech failure

#HearingImpaired #HearingAids #Aging #Tech

Jonathan Birch 4d ago

The charger for wife's hearing aids has a weird accessibility fail.

The charger is a little black plastic box that plugs into the wall. It has a slot for each hearing aid and a lid that snaps shut. Getting the hearing aids into position so that they will charge is rather fiddly - if they're slightly out of place, they won't charge. They each have a light that turns on when they're charging, but closing the lid of the case will often dislodge one sufficiently to break the connection.

Someone involved with the design of the charger or the hearing aids clearly recognized this problem, so there's a backup mechanism. It seems that if one hearing aid is charging but the other isn't, after a few minutes it starts making a sound.

A very quiet sound.

It sounds, roughly, like a single lonely cricket somewhere outside.

A sound which no one who needed the hearing aids could possibly perceive while not wearing the hearing aids.

This creates a weird dynamic where I occasionally have to communicate to my wife "crickets" so that she knows to fix the issue.

And all of this could be much more easily solved by just making the lid of the box out of clear plastic. Or adding a light on the outside of the box to indicate that the connection is bad.

#hearingaids #accessibility

(And writing this, I'm realizing that this was probably a heroic attempt at a software fix to a hardware problem. A fix which even sort of works for us. It's still a definite fail though.)

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Jon-o-lantern 6d ago

I notice two things immediately: first, the client's voice is crystal clear, like, suspiciously clear, and second, when I talk, I can't hear myself, which is weird, because that only happens when my HA's aren't .... on....oh shit I never turned my HA's back on!

Lesson: if I turn my HA's off with the app, it's essentially just silencing the microphone; the bluetooth capacity still operates! This is going to become a super power for me.

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#HearingAids #Deaf #HardOfHearing

Jon-o-lantern 6d ago

Adventures in Hearing, Wednesday Edition:

I use my phone app to turn off my HAs (hearing aids) when I'm in the parking garage because of all the loud mechanical noises. I get into my office, put my things away, take my seat and open my laptop. Zoom tells me that it's using my hearing aids for audio, and off I go, greeting my first client for telehealth.

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#HearingAids #Deaf #HardOfHearing

Douglas Hunsinger Oct 8

#HearingAids First, I should have done more research before jumping in to this decision. Having said that, there's enough I like about these Oticon hearing aids that I think I'll keep them. There's not a good, affordable accessory that would let me transmit analog mixer audio to them, but my hearing is still good enough that there are work arounds. When that changes, so might the brand I purchase. The iPhone performance with them is quite good. I don't like that the Companion app is so inaccessible, and I will constantly advocate for change, as I did with their consumer support line. I so much thank @JonathanMosen and @aiden_gardiner for their valuable input. Thanks to their feedback, I'll be a smarter consumer when my needs change and when I need to make a new purchase. Although I'm satisfied enough with the Oticons that I think I'll keep them, my big mistake was not gathering more data first before making the decision.
I could have exchanged these for Phonak, and that may happen in the future. But exchanging them would have meant refund to insurance and filing a new claim for the new hearing aids. For now, these meet my needs. Tweet, Tweet! (a sound I can now hear, along with the kitty's small bell)

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Entirely anecdotal, and there could be many reasons, but I've got more energy both during the day and more markedly in the evenings since getting hearing aids.

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