Your audiologist would have done a frequency scan of your hearing in order to dispense the hearing aid. Next time you visit them ask for a copy of your audiogram.

Have you been using your hearing aids all the time when awake? I hope you are. I takes a while to get back to being accustomed to what "normal" hearing feels like, such as water from the faucet, raindrops on the car roof, and rustling of potato chips bags.

My previous Phonak did not have Bluetooth. Now I can listen to my music, podcasts, YouTube, and zoom on my iPad without having to use headphones.
I can now hear my iPhone ring even when I don't have it on me.

Mine came with a wireless mic which I have not yet picked up. My wife is dying to get it so that she can summons me from whatever part of my man cave I am hiding.

Yes, my next visit to the VA center where they tested me I will ask for the test results.

Yes, I put them in morning and take them out at bedtime. I was surprised they actually get a full charge in a few hours after a full day of sometimes 16 hours of on time. Yes, also interesting to hear water run in the sink not to mention urinating in the toilet. With gradual hearing loss I forgot what things should sound like.

I also love the Bluetooth and how it pairs with my phone and other things like my Garmin. These opened a world I left years ago, have to love it.

Ron

 

My Phonak hearing aids (with ported ear molds) do not play bass sounds but everything sounds fine when I listen to my speakers playing.

 

Sounds like more of a marketing tool than a serious diagnostic test.

Yep!

 

Unfortunately there is more to making communications work well than just hearing everything. Making sense of speech can be quite a challenge as well. Fortunately many sources with a worth while message are willing to put it into print, which can be absorbed at the reader's speed, rather than the obnoxious speaker who seems to be getting paid by the words per minute rather than by information delivered. It seems that communication is actually a lot more than just making sounds. These threads would be much less useful if they were audio rather than in text.

 

Unfortunately there is more to making communications work well than just hearing everything. Making sense of speech can be quite a challenge as well. Fortunately many sources with a worth while message are willing to put it into print, which can be absorbed at the reader's speed, rather than the obnoxious speaker who seems to be getting paid by the words per minute rather than by information delivered. It seems that communication is actually a lot more than just making sounds. These threads would be much less useful if they were audio rather than in text.

Are you sure about this? I think humans are in general much better at auditory processing. Read and writing especially are relatively new abilities evolutionarily speaking.

This is interesting because when I am reading or writing something technical, I can only listen to music with no vocals whatsoever. If there is even a single word, my mind is instantly taken from my task. Same goes with people talking while I'm trying to concentrate.

Not only that, I often listen to lectures while I'm doing leisure activities. In this case, the auditory lecture overrides whatever is happening non-verbally in my environment so I tend to focus more on the lecture.

If I have to read something really long and boring, I'll often convert it to audio then listen to it. I can pretty much doze off during the boring parts which is a great technique for grinding through boring work or study.

 

Are you sure about this? I think humans are in general much better at auditory processing. Read and writing especially are relatively new abilities evolutionarily speaking.

This is interesting because when I am reading or writing something technical, I can only listen to music with no vocals whatsoever. If there is even a single word, my mind is instantly taken from my task. Same goes with people talking while I'm trying to concentrate.

Not only that, I often listen to lectures while I'm doing leisure activities. In this case, the auditory lecture overrides whatever is happening non-verbally in my environment so I tend to focus more on the lecture.

If I have to read something really long and boring, I'll often convert it to audio then listen to it. I can pretty much doze off during the boring parts which is a great technique for grinding through boring work or study.

Not all folks are the same,and likewise, some folks are able to focus attention very deeply while many others are evidently unable to focus their attention on any one area for longer than a few heartbeats. That can be verified by most teachers, that many are unable to focus their attention even long enough to comprehend a whole sentence.

Reading text, though, allows the reader to adjust the speed to the complexity of the information being processed, and to even revisit segments that are more complex. That is why I find on-line technical presentations to be of vastly less value than if they were provided in a text format. Understanding a speed-reader racing at 160 words a minute is often a challenge.
Of course, for those who are not focused and not really very interested, it is a time-saving way to sort of pick up the key phrases while not learning very much.

 

Many people speak with such a strong accent that it sounds like a foreign language. Few accents occur in text.

 

Many people speak with such a strong accent that it sounds like a foreign language. Few accents occur in text.

I do much better with call centers in the Philippines than in India. Just depends on how "thick" the accent is. Along those lines my father was French Canadian descent born in New Bedford Mass. His parents were from New Brunswick, Canada. Dad had a very strong New England accent. First time my wife met dad she finally got brave enough to ask me if my father had a speech impediment. Kathy simply was not accustomed to the strong New England MA. accent. My accent is just strong NY or actually Brooklyn, NY. Accents matter.

Ron

 

Accents matter

Wait till you listen to Chilango, or Yucateco ... those are accents! ... and don't even get me started on argentinian ... @atferrari

 

Wait till you listen to Chilango, or Yucateco ... those are accents! ... and don't even get me started on argentinian ... @atferrari

Most of us down here (common educated people) do speak with an accent that you could like or not but it is easy to understand (no potato in the mouth, so to speak). In my province, Córdoba, some people, do have an horrendous accent which cries out for vocal reeducation. Refraining myself to tell what I think of some other places in South, Central or North America.

 

Unfortunately the tele-fraud criminals have learned that the heavy accent is the warning to hang up,and so now most of them use very good speech.
What is needed is a good legal theory that spoofing a caller ID to commit fraud is identity theft, and thus a crime that can be prosecuted. I am certain that many folks would gladly donate to pay for the bullets.

 

Unfortunately the tele-fraud criminals have learned that the heavy accent is the warning to hang up,and so now most of them use very good speech.
What is needed is a good legal theory that spoofing a caller ID to commit fraud is identity theft, and thus a crime that can be prosecuted. I am certain that many folks would gladly donate to pay for the bullets.

I would donate the ammo. I also am not overly concerned with tele fraud accents since I will never hear the accent as a result of not answering the phone. I really have an intense dislike of those people. Can you tell?

Ron