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

@mickey5909 The speech to text apps use the microphone so to try to transcribe a phone call would not work well or not work at all. I've never tried that. Sounds like you should be looking into the InnoCaption app to transcribe phone calls. This way you get the best of both worlds, hearing through your hearing aids AND reading the text of the call.
Tony in Michigan

I don't know why I did not think of InnoCaption. I am usually lazy and just click the phone number in the link and it goes through my regular phone and not through the app. I know I can set the app up to automatically linked but I just haven't done it. I'll have to try it on my next call. Thanks!!

@mickey5909
Hi
While you are having your cell number forwarded to the Innocaption+ number also go into settings and choose the option that gives you both access to a live caption operator and ASR (automatic speech recognition). This way if an operator is not available the speech will be captured by the automatic recognition program. You may or may not notice a difference in accuracy. I don’t really pay attention to whether it’s a live operator or an automatic program but am happy that option is available. You may have already done this.
Different phones and carriers have different ways for forwarding numbers....I had to goggle the instructions for my Samsung.

FL Mary

Ken / Julie what helps when you are a passenger in a vehicle. I have profound hearing loss, my left ear is pretty much deaf so I listen with the 20% in my right ear. My audiologist has suggested the cross over hearing aids and was thinking of giving them a try but at $3,000 an aid I have held off until just recently thinking of them again. I like the microphone portion of the Starkey aid that could help in a vehicle.?

Do your current hearing aids have telecoils? If so, you might want to try a William's Sound Pocket Talker. That works great in most settings with background noise, and is inexpensive compared to buying a new hearing aid. It does involve a cord though. Hearing aids that have hand held microphone capability work great and are wireless. Let us know what you try.

Yes I have t coils and I taught my Audiologists more things that Tcoils does . It helps sometimes with tv and acts like fm recievers somewhat . Folks are getting new aids with Bluetooth snd not tcoils. You need both. Bluetooth does not help with loops which allowed you in Amtrak stations to hear direct to your aids. My over aids like Nano does not have tcoils. Bluetooth is available in some over the counter aids but it’s seems I did not get those. Supposedly I have the most powerful ones but it is adequate for me. I cannot hear on the phone at all nowadays . It’s jamming me up at one dr office whose staff in years past were good. Now not.

@bookysue
When I started to work for an Orthopaedic group many years ago and it became increasingly hard to hear on the phones, I asked my IT office and management to look into a Captel system for the office. They did not want to go to the expense for one person which was fine with me. I said you can keep me in my current job or have me do something else. They just removed the phone from my desk. I did what I always did...billing department....just did not have to talk to patients via phone. This particular outfit was very caring and accommodating and the people I worked with so helpful and understanding. They knew I didn't understanding loud speakers and pretty much remembered to tell me what was being said. I lucked out and stayed there until I retired.

FL Mary

How long ago was it that you retired? Unfortunate that they didn't look into CapTel because there was no cost to get it installed. Still no cost if you have a diagnosed hearing loss.

@julieo
I retired in 2013. I doubt they investigated too deeply and I was happy to get the phone off the desk. We had less than 50 employees at that time too. The Captel phone they give out free in Florida only had captioning one way. This was many years ago and ,if I remember right, you could only get captioning when you received calls, not when you made them. It was the first Captel model made. At that time I paid $99 for the updated model so I could have it both ways. Don’t know if the FL Deaf and Hearing Center has a newer model now. I still have the one I paid for as we need a landline number for faxes. I tried Captioncall for free but returned it...liked Captel better at that time.

FL Mary

I lipread by having the passenger pull down the mirror and glance toward lips in that mirror Rather than turning my head way over to hear or see them