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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 11:00am
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I've been trying to find an app that, when someone calls me and I can't hear or understand them, will show their words on my screen. I tried one app, Live Transcribe, but it only shows my talking.
Anyone know of an app that does this?
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ICC
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 01:50pm
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Look at Live Transcribe, from Google.
"Does Live Transcribe work for phone calls?
With Live Transcribe, those with hearing loss can quickly and reliably read what the other person in the conversation is saying, as they say it. ... Live Transcribe is free but is available for Android only."
I don't use it. My super duper hearing aids work with bluetooth on my phone.
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 04:28pm
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That's the app I tried. Maybe I need to mess with it. Thanks ICC.
I have loud, constant tinnitus and hearing loss. I'm able to hear most sounds but speech often sounds like gibberish, particularly from my wife. I've tried 3 different hearing aids, they magnify the sound, if someone drops a fork I'll jump out the window, but don't make the speech any more clear.
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ICC
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 06:29pm - Edited by: ICC
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Quoting: paulz I've tried 3 different hearing aids, they magnify the sound, if someone drops a fork I'll jump out the window, but don't make the speech any more clear.
Do your hearing aids have a customized program for your unique pattern of hearing loss? Properly done those are magic. To me at least. It is pure magic.
How long have you had them?
My L and R ear loss patterns are very different from each other, loss of different frequencies L and R. They are programmed to the different frequencies much like a stereo set equalizer. Without the aids the world is a very peaceful, a very quiet place, but I cannot interact with people very well as everything is soft and muted. With my aids active I can carry on most any activity without giving it a second thought. I actually forget I am wearing them most of the time. It did take a very long time to reach that point. For the first few months, I was acutely aware of all the loud sounds around me. I was uncertain it was a good idea. Walking across the graveled parking area seemed to be incredibly loud. Hiking in the forest produced a horrid cacaphony of noise with the dry pine needles and twigs snapping as I stepped.
My hearing aids are now pretty much my most valuable personal possession.
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ICC
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 06:58pm
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Quoting: ICC I actually forget I am wearing them most of the time.
I want to clarify that statement. I am reminded many times a day that I am wearing aids. There are many times when I get electronic feedback; brief squealing at times from wearing my wide brim hat for example. That seems normal to me now.
However, there are many times I almost step into the shower before I remember to remove them. Walking through the woods or over the gravel from home to barn doesn't cause me to cringe anymore.
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paulz
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 07:11pm
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One set is programmable but has to be done by the audiologist where I got them. He did it a couple times, didn't help. I understand they now have them you can program yourself.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 2 Sep 2021 11:58pm
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My dad is 87 years old. He worked as an iron worker most of his life. I have 2 sets of hearing aids in my junk drawer that we paid almost $10 thousand for. They never worked for him. I believe they have all the bells and whistles of new hearing aids
We got a different Dr. for him. And she told us to take a liquid laxative. And clean his ears out regularly. (See pic)
Now he uses a cheap a$$ hearing amplifier that I got off Amazon. And hears better than ever. Go figure. This is not medical advice. But medical fact as I know it. Who would have thought, that a laxative could help your hearing.?
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 11:39am
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When I want to be super-quiet sneaking through the woods I take out my hearing aids......
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DaveBell
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 12:43pm
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Quoting: gcrank1 my hearing aids......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwSqSITCLCk
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 03:44pm
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Lol.
Quoting: ICC Look at Live Transcribe, from Google. "Does Live Transcribe work for phone calls? With Live Transcribe, those with hearing loss can quickly and reliably read what the other person in the conversation is saying, as they say it. ... Live Transcribe is free but is available for Android only."
I just tried Live Transcribe again. Had my wife call me from inside the house. Again it showed my words but not hers. I went through the settings and didn't see anything relevant. So I don't know where they get that info.
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 03:47pm
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Quoting: darz5150 Who would have thought, that a laxative could help your hearing.
Where do you put the laxative? In your ears I hope, 'cause it's the last thing I need inside me. I can barely keep it all in now.
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 06:42pm
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Man, took a lot of searching but found this in the comments on Live Transcribe:
peter numextexcan
August 30, 2021
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I have profound hearing loss, the app allows me to read what others are saying. Just wish it would work on phone calls.
I looked at other apps too, and now I'm not sure if transcribing a live phone call is even legal.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 11:25pm - Edited by: darz5150
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Quoting: paulz Where do you put the laxative? In your ears I hope, 'cause it's the last thing I need inside me.
Yep. I told my pop when we first started doing it, that I was a little scared to put it in his ears. He asked me why, and I told him. Cause I'm 57 years old, and you've been a Sh!t head as long as I've known you, I'm not sure what's gonna happen. His eyes lit up and he started laffing, and said. "Well if my head melts. You don't have to come over tomorrow to check on me!"
Made me lmao
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darz5150
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# Posted: 3 Sep 2021 11:37pm
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Don't really know what the laxative does. Maybe some deep cleaning or something. But I know it changed his life for the better. After thousands of dollars spent on the aids the tests, yadda yadda. Laxative in ears? Less than $10 bucks.
He wasn't able to use the phone. Now he can.🤯
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paulz
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2021 08:45am
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Thanks darz. I looked it up, removes ear wax. Good tip but won't help my tinnitus and hearing loss. Glad it helped you dad though.
Truly amazing what modern medicine can do, however tinnitus remains irreparable afaik. I did just order lipoflavinoid, supposed to help but not expecting much. With my wife's Medicare supplement they give you $100 a quarter in free stuff, use it or lose it.
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ICC
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2021 12:30pm - Edited by: ICC
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I just got back from town where I took part in a ritual some of us have been doing for over 40 years. We are all of advanced years, born about '46. I've known a few of the guys since I was a kid. We meet at a local diner for Saturday breakfast. We have things in common. A love of automobiles, hot rods in particular. We love many motor sports and have participated in many types. We have been exposed to loud sounds both because of chosen vocation or hobbies. We all have loved amplified music, maybe worn headphones. We all served in the military in VN with assorted loud noises that brought.
This is now a group of 8; we have lost a few friends and gained a few newer, but just as old, friends.
We all have hearing loss. We all wear our hearing aids. But it took up to 6 months for a couple of us to get to the point of acceptance. One of us took over a year. Hearing aids can make a big difference to one's enjoyment of life. As well, our wives all agree that living with us is more enjoyable for them. Our kids say the same thing.
Tinnitus is often caused by hearing loss. It is the brain trying to make up for the absence of the sounds that we normally would be hearing. Several of our group had tinnitus to various degrees. Most of us, myself included, have noticed a marked reduction in the tinnitus noise in our heads after wearing our aids all day for a long time.
As I sit here relating this, I do have a "noise" that I know is not really there. But it does not bother me the way it used to. I have been told that it is thought that hearing aids augment the volume of external noise to the point that it covers (masks) the sound of tinnitus. I have also read that certain medications, in some people, can cause tinnitus. Some health problems can also contribute to tinnitus.
One of our group found that his tinnitus disappeared after he got off the NSAIDs, diuretics and blood pressure meds. Of course to do that he had to exercise, change his diet, stop smoking and lose about 60 pounds. And he finally got used to or accepted his hearing aids.
It took me months, but I was stubborn. Peer pressure helped I think.
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ICC
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# Posted: 4 Sep 2021 12:53pm - Edited by: ICC
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Oh, and the first thing a good audiologist will do is check for ear wax buildup using an otoscope, the instrument which is used to look into the ear canal. I sometimes get ear wax plugging a hearing aid earpiece.
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