Translation

@spanner5511 said:

Has anyone come across a hearing aid that incorporates a translator?

No hearing aid has that feature, although in summer 2024 there were Phonak marketing videos suggesting that feature will be possible in 2028 or 2030.

EDIT: I didn't know about Starkey Omega AI and AI+ END of EDIT

@spanner5511 said:

Alternatively, and device that works with hearing aids to facilitate live translations?

Samsung Galaxy S with native translation feature

I have the Starkey Edge AI.

It can translate.

I tried it with a Spanish speaking lady I know.

When you speak English the Spanish translation shows on your screen in the app.

Same with the Spanish, it's on your phone screen.

It was slow. Aggravatingly.

@user490 said:

How would in aid translation help if one can't speak the language to the other person (

For me it could be useful. I can't understand English speech well, but I can use simple spoken English in reply.

Bimodal, I am very surprised at your comment that you don't understand English speech well. Your written English is excellent. So much so, I had thought maybe you were American or English, but who moved to Poland.

@portage said:

Bimodal, I am very surprised at your comment that you don't understand English speech well.

Compare this to my audiogram:

10 years ago, I couldn't even watch movies, because I couldn't synchronise characters talking with what I read from the subtitles.

Now I can read even with no aids and even fast talking Dr Cliff 😅

@portage said:

Your written English is excellent. So much so, I had thought maybe you were American or English, but who moved to Poland.

Thank for kind words. And thanks for @kevels55, because he also was that nice a few weeks ago,when we discussed REM and ENT competences. That written English was after training with translator and especially after working with their module which can correct my sentences.

However, I noticed that often corrections aren't what I want, because they don't carry the kind of thought I want to emphasize (theoretically the same info, but suggesting different context).

I am in this forum from 2019 and treated it also as a place in which I could train myself to be at least more fluent with writing. It worked, I'm much freer in writing now.

Keep in mind that I still use the translator, especially if discussion is pretty heated and I need to be sure in conveying thoughts "between the lines" for not making arguing worse.