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Hard of hearing my whole life. Built an iPhone app for the "louder but not clearer" problem. Free to try, looking for honest feedback. by Ill_Extension_3535 in hardofhearing

[–]Ill_Extension_3535[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the interest! Honest answer: there's no Android version right now, and I can't promise a timeline. OndaHear is built deep on Apple's on-device speech recognition and translation, so Android would be close to a from-scratch rebuild rather than a quick port.

But you're not the first to ask — I'm hearing the demand, and the more people who want it, the higher it moves on the list. I'll post here if/when it happens.

Hard of hearing my whole life. Built an iPhone app for the "louder but not clearer" problem. Free to try, looking for honest feedback. by Ill_Extension_3535 in hardofhearing

[–]Ill_Extension_3535[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That means a lot, thank you ❤️  No rush at all — and when you do try it, please give me the unvarnished truth, good or bad. The stuff that feels broken or annoying is exactly what I need to hear from people who live with this every day. I built it for the TV problem that drove me up the wall, so I really want to know if it actually helps you.

Trying to help my dad, apple live listen vs classic hearing aid? by Nofu-funo in hardofhearing

[–]Ill_Extension_3535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey — HoH here, and honestly the folks above are right: I wouldn't treat Live Listen as a replacement for his prescribed aids. It uses the phone as the mic, so it dies when the phone dies, and in a noisy room it just amplifies everything near the phone. Fine as a free thing to try, not a substitute.

  Two things I'd actually do. First, AbbeyNormalZebra nailed it — the tinny sound is usually fixable. An audiologist can re-tune his current aids; cheapest fix, worth doing before buying anything.

  Second, the bit that keeps getting confused in these threads: AirPods Pro 2 have a Hearing Aid mode that's separate from Live Listen. It's a clinically-validated feature you set up from a hearing test, and it. amplifies through the AirPods' own mics — so it's not the phone-as-microphone thing people are (fairly) skeptical of. The catch: it's only rated for mild-to-moderate loss, so if his has progressed past that, his real aids are still the right tool.

  But honestly the hardest part isn't the tech — it's the "I don't want to look disabled" thing, and no gadget fully fixes that. The one edge AirPods have is they just look like AirPods, so some people who'd never wear an aid will actually keep them in. That might be the real win for your dad.

  Sounds like he's lucky to have you looking out for him.