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What are your favorite apps for hearing loss or tools you use?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Mar 21, 2021 | Replies (153)Comment receiving replies
I am compiling and updating lists of hearing loss-related apps all the time. My favorites are decibelx.com, to check noise levels before I stay anywhere, live transcribe and otter, for captioning, InnoCaption, for captioning of phone calls (outgoing and incoming), and zoom for my lip reading classes, volunteer meetings, etc. I will be teaching about these, advocacy and assistive listening devices, plus lip reading, in my new coaching business as well. I have had hearing loss for 60+ years and lip reading for all of those. There is so much new info and tech coming out about hearing related matters (almost daily!) that a portion of my time is devoted to that.
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Reply/question to Th1: I've tried both Live Transcribe and Otter, but find that I wind up losing even more content because looking at my phone means I'm unable to "read" the person speaking, plus the phone lags behind. I'm not smart enough to process what I'm hearing while looking at my phone to see what was said a couple of moments ago. I finally gave up on speech-to-text for meetings, except for using Live Transcribe to provide a history after a multi-hour meeting is over. That, however, doesn't enable me to participate in the meeting, just to know what I failed to hear correctly, for the most part. FWIW, both apps fail miserably with technical discussions, which is undoubtedly a big part of my problem with them.
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May I ask where you live and how to get information about your trainings? So much technology has been developed in the last decade that it's mind boggling. Speech to text tech was a dream of many for decades!