| List All Threads/Messages |
Post Message |
Search Messages by Content or Date Range |
|
Hard of Hearing Advocates Home Page Read These Posting Guidelines Feedback on this Message Board / Report Abuse | ||||||
|
Subject : Re: Frequency compression/shifting technology. Opinions? posted by Hamlet on Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:48 pm |
| I am trying the Widex Inteo HA. The "audibility extender" is in my opinion totally worthless. The attempt is to let people (like me) with high frequency loss hear those high pitched sounds by shifting them to a lower frequency within the same harmonic. They should be spending their time working on something that is important and helpful to people rather than trying to help people hear some birdcalls in a bizarre way. I am unfortunately dissatisfied with the Inteos for a number of reasons in addition. With the audibility extender on, I could actually whistle and hear my whistle in harmony -- the high pitch I was hearing without the aid, and the lower (digitially manufactured) pitch I heard through the aid. Kind of cool, but not life-enhancing. And all the birds sounded like geese. So what use is that?? What bird lover wants to hear geese? In fall, yes, the sound of the geese honking is kind of pleasant and heartwarming, but when you are expecting a lark and you hear geese? Why would anyone want that? This is a total waste of electrical engineering talent. |
| Show All Messages in thread | Email Notification | Post a followup message |
