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

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!

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.

Reply to Julie: Thanks for mentioning that a CI may cancel out tinnitus! I've had constant humming in my useless right ear for decades, and may become a candidate for a CI if I lose much more hearing in my sorta good ear, so this is very good to know. Actually, I learned years ago to, for the most part, just ignore the 24/7 hum. I only realize it's there when someone writes about tinnitus.

I'll chime in on my HLAA affiliation since several have brought it up but I want to also respond to @joyces since she mentioned that she might get CI in the hopes that it helps the tinnitus as it did with @julieo4. One of my chapter members developed tinnitus only after getting a CI. It is very bothersome for her and she regrets getting the CI. She probably forgets the benefit of being able to hear better. But, nothing has helped with her tinnitus. I don't think she is giving treatment options enough time to be effective, such as meditation, but I'm only guessing since she responds quickly with her results after I've brought them up.
I am president of HLAA, Michigan State Association in addition to president of the Western Wayne County Chapter.
Tony in Michigan

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 Julie: Thanks for mentioning that a CI may cancel out tinnitus! I've had constant humming in my useless right ear for decades, and may become a candidate for a CI if I lose much more hearing in my sorta good ear, so this is very good to know. Actually, I learned years ago to, for the most part, just ignore the 24/7 hum. I only realize it's there when someone writes about tinnitus.

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'll chime in on my HLAA affiliation since several have brought it up but I want to also respond to @joyces since she mentioned that she might get CI in the hopes that it helps the tinnitus as it did with @julieo4. One of my chapter members developed tinnitus only after getting a CI. It is very bothersome for her and she regrets getting the CI. She probably forgets the benefit of being able to hear better. But, nothing has helped with her tinnitus. I don't think she is giving treatment options enough time to be effective, such as meditation, but I'm only guessing since she responds quickly with her results after I've brought them up.
I am president of HLAA, Michigan State Association in addition to president of the Western Wayne County Chapter.
Tony in Michigan