@suesue

I tried AVA years ago and didn’t care for it. I have an android phone and constantly use Live Transcribe app for speech understanding. Otter is an excellent app originally designed for meetings and has a fee but there is a free limited number of minutes version you can try. I also use Innocaption as my phone app. Go to the play store or App Store on your phone and look for speech to text apps. Most are free…read the reviews…try them out. There are so many of these apps available you should be able to find one. There is no reason , regardless of age, not to be invested in trying these assisted listening apps if you have a smartphone.

Also check this forum under hearing loss and you will see an enormous amount of topics about all facets of hearing loss from hands on experience people. You will learn what is being used and how it helps them navigate through life. I am late deafened (small d)…wearing bilateral BTEs for 40 plus years…hear almost everything but have lost the speech perception.

FL Mary