What are your favorite apps for hearing loss or tools you use?

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.

Also, the HLAA has a checklist for consumers who are wanting to buy hearing aids, check it out: https://www.hearingloss.org/news-media/brochure-downloads/ Then click on purchasing hearing aids - a consumer checklist

I use Ava for speech to text
I also use Sorenson Buzz Cards
Cardzilla is helpful too
Those are my "go to" a;;s
There are others too
OH- I have used Oticon Care to have my hearing aids adjusted by my audiologist over the internet

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!

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.

I live in Fort Pierce FL, am President of Treasure Coast Chapter HLAA, among other volunteer things, and teach lip reading, so am constantly getting new info on hearing challenge related matters. Where are you? You can private message me.

More info in this one. 🙂 I am in Appleton Wisconsin; founder of HLAA Fox Valley Chapter...way back in 1984. Watching the development of technology over those 37+ years has been amazing. We talked about how amazing it would be to have speech to text technology back in the Rocky Stone days. TV captioning was new then and required a rather heavy piece of equipment called a caption decoder to attach to your TV to see the few programs that were captioned then. It was a start. We can thank SHHH/HLAA for advocacy and education related to the progress of technology that benefits the hard of hearing population.

Thanks Tony! I opened the app and thought the hearing test was interesting....I know I don't hear much below 50-60db through out the frequencies. My tinnitus is a little more complicated....I have a constant high pitch ringing that never lets up. I have worked with a Tinnitus specialist in Milwaukee that got me going on the sound generator...TINNITUS AID is the app...it's free for the basic mode. If I listen to sounds that mimic a river or brook stream it relaxes me after a half hour. I have learned to live with the high frequency ringing. About a year ago I started having a very low frequency hum that bothers me....something along the lines of a exhaust fan and it seems to get louder as the day goes on or if I go into a public place with much noise. It will actually become mind numbing for me. Its interesting because I retired several years ago and the low humming sound I now hear almost reminds me of my work environment...my office was located above an industrial compressor room...it sounds almost identical to that noise! I realize that tinnitus is a brain function that is trying to provide feedback due to the fact of my hearing loss....from reading these helpful blogs it is obvious that everyone may be dealing with something unique to themselves....it is good to read other peoples issues. If I try AUDIOCARDIO out I will report back. I just don't think a two week trial will cut it for me!

Thank you for sharing this. My tinnitus sounded like crickets. I had it for years, but after getting a cochlear implant it went away except for now and then. I enjoyed the sounds of summer, so managed to put those tinnitus critters in the background most of the time. Work environment is the cause for many people due to noise that was not filtered and ears that were not protected. Keep us posted about the AudioCardio device. Two weeks is a very short time to try it. What is the cost of the device?

Reply to Scott K: Like auditory hallucinations, sometimes tinnitus "plays back" some sound you've heard...that day or decades ago. It might be possible that you're "hearing" your old office environment replayed. If I'm exposed to more sound than usual (pretty quiet here), I often "hear" some of that sound during the night. Perhaps it's possible that our ears never just "make up" sound, but always play back something we heard at some point in our lives. Of course, norms can't begin to understand all this!