Subscription Hearing Devices

by dmsiggy on May 14, 2012

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“The rental model is a money-driven thing. Some finance person looked at AOL getting paid every month and said, ‘I’d sure like to get some of that recurring subscription revenue. Wouldn’t that be nice?’ It’s certainly not a user-driven thing. Nobody ever went out and asked users, ‘Would you like to keep paying us every [...]

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There is Nothing Wrong.

by dmsiggy on May 8, 2012

Josh Swiller, author of The Unheard: a Memoir of Deafness and Africa, is an excellent wordsmith and always worth listening to. He shares a passage from his new ebook. Listen, I told all of them, and this, right here at the very beginning of this e-book (which apparently may not be the way to properly [...]

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Buying New Hearing Aids

by dmsiggy on May 6, 2012

Why New Aids? After 5 years of wearing my Widex Passion hearing aids, I’m ready for a new pair (Either a newer Widex model or a pair from a different company). My current aids have been unreliable for the past year. I’ve sent the instruments in for repair 3 times in the last year and [...]

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Weekly Thoughts

March 22, 2011

Rotary Phones, Cigar Box Guitars, and more Iwas recently listening to a local radio station here in the San Francisco Bay Area <ahref=”http://www.kpfa.org/”>KPFA and I heard something that got me thinking. The host was mentioning how much attention KPFA pays to sound quality- something you’d expect from a medium that deals entirely in sound. Moreover, [...]

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James Moody: Saxophonist, Hearing Impaired, Hated His Hearing Aids

February 18, 2011

I’m not as concerned with my voice as I am with my lisp that I have, you know, because I’m partially deaf.  And I was born that way, and it doesn’t mean that I have a speech impediment; it’s just that I don’t hear S’s.  My wife always tells me, when I’m singing “Mood for [...]

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Hearing In the New Year

February 17, 2011

Hello All- I’ve been away from writing on HearingInformed for too long. Thank You to all the people from around the world who continue to visit my site (a couple of thousand a month). I’m thrilled that visitors are coming in from places like India, Ukraine, Malaysia, Brazil.. almost every continent. This shouldn’t be too [...]

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Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

July 15, 2010

“Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics. At least, that’s what Oklahoma News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you [...]

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What does a hearing loss sound like?

July 15, 2010

Phonak has an interesting section on their website dedicated to the question: what does  hearing loss sound like? I’ve gotten this question many times. They made a series of demos that roughly simulate what normal, mild, and moderate hearing losses sound like. I like that they sample a wide series of environments. The nitty gritty [...]

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Voice-to-Text Services Getting Better

July 1, 2010

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been frustrated listening to my voicemails- unable to make out an important number or name that I need to jot down. I’ve been hoping that software to transcribe voice to text was going to get good enough so that I might actually use it. Its now [...]

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Wear a Hearing Device on your Tooth?

June 18, 2010

A hearing aid that fits on your teeth? Thats what Sonitus Medical has been working on for the past few years. The novel approach blends several technologies to solve the problem of single-sided conduction hearing loss. Essentially, this aid will help those who are deaf in one ear. The patient will wear a behind the [...]

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