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Company phone vs Hearing Aid, please advise....
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| cesarquiles 2006-04-26, 11:19 am |
| I have a bilateral hearing loss, my left ear is what they call "death
ear" and I wear hearing aid on my right ear. I been in my job for 7
months, this job requires high volume of phone calls, my hearing aid
and the company phone do not get well. My company is small one, 9
employers, but they are willing to help me out with this problem, is
the first time that I have to use the phone a lot and I have no clue in
what to do, could you please help me out. Thanks.
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| If I were on the phone all day I would want to remove my hearing aids
and put on a binaural headset that had the required gain and
equalization functions for me.
I did something like that for home use. I use a "In-Line Patch" device
made by J-K Audio to connect to the telephone system with isolation so
that a standard stereo equalizer can be used to feed a stereo headset.
If you have someone who is familiar with this stuff at your place he
might be able to put together a rig like this for you.
Performance/intelligibility is really very good.
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| shipmate@faux.earthlink.net 2006-04-26, 6:18 pm |
| On 26 Apr 2006 13:00:44 -0700, "jim" <jwcrim@wiltontech.com> wrote:
>If I were on the phone all day I would want to remove my hearing aids
>and put on a binaural headset that had the required gain and
>equalization functions for me.
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>I did something like that for home use. I use a "In-Line Patch" device
>made by J-K Audio to connect to the telephone system with isolation so
>that a standard stereo equalizer can be used to feed a stereo headset.
>If you have someone who is familiar with this stuff at your place he
>might be able to put together a rig like this for you.
>Performance/intelligibility is really very good.
There is such a device comercially available from the Hearsay
Corporation. http://s5electronics.com/gpage.html
I have one with only a telephone input supplied by the CTAP, California
Telephone Exchange Program, http://www.ddtp.org/CTAP/ , at no charge.
The problem for me is my hearing is so deteriorated that amplification
is not enough. The device is of good quality and works well for milder
cases of hearing impairment.
YMMV
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| More detail:
Wireless (900 Mhz) Stereo Headset: Sony MDR-RF960R ($90)
Level Leveler: TERK ($45)
15 Band Stereo Equalizer: Radio Shack ($100)
Telephone Patch: Inline Patch by JK Audio ($100 used)
Miniature Cordless Telephone: Xact Communications ($100)
I use the miniature cordless telephone as a mike and dial only, the
incoming voice goes through the full audio gear.
Depending on your hearing characteristic you can cascade equalizers. I
built a simple RC "pre-equalizer" that emphasizes the highs to suit the
ski slope part of my loss. This lets the EQ just handle the fine
structure. You can do the same thing with a modest parametric equalizer
connected in front of the graphic equalizer.
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| ileneraku 2006-04-27, 1:20 am |
| Try checking out some of the recommended phones on
http://www.firsthearingaid.com. These are specially manufactured for
people with hearing loss.
cesarquiles wrote:
> I have a bilateral hearing loss, my left ear is what they call "death
> ear" and I wear hearing aid on my right ear. I been in my job for 7
> months, this job requires high volume of phone calls, my hearing aid
> and the company phone do not get well. My company is small one, 9
> employers, but they are willing to help me out with this problem, is
> the first time that I have to use the phone a lot and I have no clue in
> what to do, could you please help me out. Thanks.
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| Check out the Ameriphone Dialogue series - a search of the group under
ameriphone will indicate what this hardware, with up to 50db
amplification, will do. And to anyone else it is a normal phone.
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