Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 223 posts

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#171

Post by embedding-shape »

tqwhite wrote: post #151
embedding-shape wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Specifically, the ones from [Captify][1]. Looks and seems great, always felt like a no-brainer use case for the smart glasses. But considering the kind of hardware they most likely are using, how is the captioning actually happening? I'm really scared of getting hardware that is 100% cloud dependent, as eventually the company gets bought or shut down, and then you end up having to repeat the process of figuring out…

The iPhone live translation is on-device. https://support.apple.com/en-us/123720

But iPhones don't sit in front of my eyes and does it automatically, which is why this whole "screens inside of glasses" thing seems so useful, if they could just figure out a way to make it work for longer than the duration of a startup.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#172

Post by embedding-shape »

afavour wrote: post #159
embedding-shape wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Specifically, the ones from [Captify][1]. Looks and seems great, always felt like a no-brainer use case for the smart glasses. But considering the kind of hardware they most likely are using, how is the captioning actually happening? I'm really scared of getting hardware that is 100% cloud dependent, as eventually the company gets bought or shut down, and then you end up having to repeat the process of figuring out…

> "Boost caption accuracy up to 98%" and "More accurate translations" are locked behind a $15/month subscription, kind of disgusting how they hide making the product work as it should behind a subscription. I'm rarely an apologist for subscription services vs outright purchase but those features sound like ones that are going to use cloud services instead of working on-device only. If it's associated with an ongoing…

Yeah, it's the same story as always; "We need to charge a monthly fee since it requires ongoing maintenance and you paying ensures we stick around", then fast forward 2-3 years and the company gets bought and shut down. We've been through this so many times that I'm just averse to any sort of product that won't work after the company shuts down.

It's so horrible to find a product, it works and functions great, almost a life-saver even, and then Google buys the startup, the founders get a pay day, and they shut down whatever servers the product used and you sit there with some useless plastic that used to be great, but now isn't even a good paperweight.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#173

Post by kisper »

embedding-shape wrote: post #171
tqwhite wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The iPhone live translation is on-device. https://support.apple.com/en-us/123720

But iPhones don't sit in front of my eyes and does it automatically, which is why this whole "screens inside of glasses" thing seems so useful, if they could just figure out a way to make it work for longer than the duration of a startup.

How about glasses that just display text sent from a phone running live transcription software? Why not display notifications while at it?

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#174

Post by pomatic »

jonathanlb wrote: post #166
shawabawa3 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What model do you have? My daughter has the Cochlear N8 and the rechargeable battery lasts 20 hours > Sometimes the cable frays and you find that out with sound cutting in and out Is there any way you can know about this, e.g. from the app? I'm asking because my daughter is 1 and if this was happening she'd currently have no way of communicating that to us

> What model do you have? I have an Advanced Bionics Naida. Battery life has consistently been around 8h for a few years. Then recently, my batteries decided they wanted to work part-time. > Is there any way you can know about this, e.g. from the app? As far as I know, there isn't a way to verify sound connection issues within the app. They happen too quickly, but usually the giveaway is that the part of the cable th…

I had a Naida, now have a Marvel. The difference is night and day. The Marvel is hands-down the best hearing setup I have ever had (I am mid 50's, have worn aids of one type or another since I was 3 yo). Bluetooth is a game changer. The Roger On is fabulous in meetings and with computers (it appears as a USB sound device, it's far more reliable than BT for that). Battery life is fantastic, it lasts more than a day, and there's a fall back to disposable cells if required. Mobile app is a bit 'meh', but the rest is so good I can't complain!

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#175

Post by retrac »

SkipperCat wrote: post #124

Has anyone had and experience using hearing aids to deal with tinnitus? I've got some small hearing loss in the high frequencies and I'm looking at getting fitted for hearing aids to help boost those frequencies. The hope is to train my brain to stop replacing the deficit of sound with the monotone tinnitus noise. I've tried some OTC hearing aids (Sony & Sennheiser) but its been hit or miss. I'm going to try whatever…

My hearing aids provide some relief for my tinnitus when I'm wearing them.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#176

Post by mixmastamyk »

zx85wes wrote: post #57
mixmastamyk wrote: post #10

Would like something like the Apple ones, without Apple or an app at all. Anyone make such a thing that works with Linux?

https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

Oh, didn’t realize that did hearing aid as well. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#177

Post by boringg »

tlar wrote: post #127

I'm not going to give a direct recommendation on the hearing aids themselves as my personal options have been pretty limited due to profound hearing loss. I can say, however, that hearing aids are not the only thing that helps - especially with meetings/noisy environments. I [recently wrote an article][0] going over my journey, but the recent technology that significantly improved my life has been live captions in gl…

A low cost option is to use the live transcribe that is embedded in apple phones. I have a family member who uses this in conjunction with hearing aids. It isn't discrete but it helps her out - especially in larger conversations with many people.

FWIW it is far from perfect but it is helpful - and better than any paid apps that we've encountered.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#178

Post by ferd »

SkipperCat wrote: post #124

Has anyone had and experience using hearing aids to deal with tinnitus? I've got some small hearing loss in the high frequencies and I'm looking at getting fitted for hearing aids to help boost those frequencies. The hope is to train my brain to stop replacing the deficit of sound with the monotone tinnitus noise. I've tried some OTC hearing aids (Sony & Sennheiser) but its been hit or miss. I'm going to try whatever…

I've had tinnitus for about 12 years now. High-freqquencies hearing loss. I've been using hearing aids for about 4 years... They DO help me with both hearing (of course) and tinnitus.

For example, driving a car without the aids makes my tinnitus really bad (due to the background noise of the car/engine/wind/road). With aids it's a lot less of a problem.

One fear I have is if hearing aids cause even more hearing damage (after all, what they do it inject amplified sound into you ear... the exact same thing that most doctors tell you NOT to do to avoid hearing damage)... Experts tell me they don't, but without any reasonable explanation.

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#179

Post by [deleted] »

mapt wrote: post #136
adinisom wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hearing in noise is both what most people want from hearing aids and what they are least equipped to provide. The traditional solution is an FM system where you give the person speaking a microphone linked to your hearing aids. There are dedicated ones like Phonak Roger. You could probably also use your phone as a microphone if it's bluetooth connected to your headphones or hearing aids.

That sounds awkward. The tech for isolating a speaker at conversational distances exists. You use half a dozen microphone transducers (minimum; Crappy microphone transducers are cheap and quality is expensive, so just use a bunch of them), and through a combination of phase and intensity they decode relative location, and amplify that phase expectation while suppressing everything that isn't phased like that. Sound i…

[deleted]

Re: Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?

#180

Post by boringg »

jacquesm wrote: post #59
fakwandi_priv wrote: post #51

This is very unrelated but I worry about posts like these. HN is a great place to get genuine thoughtful discussions compared to a big portion of the rest of the internet. Reddit used to be the place for finding genuine experiences for products with subreddits like buyitforlife (or more specific) but now these and other subreddits are filled with bots and marketeers promoting what they sell and hammering their compet…

If you spot one flag it and mail hn@ycombinator.com , Dan & Tom usually act pretty quickly on confirmed shills. But don't comment in the threads to accuse someone of being a shill, that's explicitly against the guidelines, and that's because it isn't rare for people to simply get it wrong, besides it would pollute the threads.

amen.
Post reply on HN