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Has anyone tried the Lace AI Pro app to retrain your audio perception?

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In reply to @micky3

Thanks for sharing your user experience. My assessment was also that there wasn’t much evidentiary support. When I asked them directly they said, “Yes there is!” but couldn’t actually provide it. I don’t know why their marketting says “80+ research studies” and then only lists 1/3 that number of papers a lot of which are actually only weakly related.

The longer I’m in this field. . . I don’t know. There seems to be a good segment of providers who are really willing to jump on the next big bandwagon to “differentiate” themselves without really considering the evidence for efficacy. Cognivue, Lace , Lenire. I wonder what will come next.

When it comes to speech-in-noise auditory training, I’m still not sure what is special about it compared to going out to a pub with a buddy, the latter of which seems a lot more engaging.

@Neville said:

Cognivue, Lace AI, Lenire.

You forgot the wrist band that gave you tactile feedback to help differentiate frequencies.

Predictable as death and taxes I come back to the cost of hearing care. This software costs significant money and it’s efficacy is not really proven? It’s like they looked at the prices people pay for hearing aids and set their pricing accordingly.

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In reply to @Neville

To d_W $400 lifetime is hardly significant. I use it daily.

To Neville> I find it hard to believe it won’t improve my hearing with all the experience it gives me. I don’t see how pub training could be useful, or scientific (inconsistent volume and lack of feedback.)

I’ve used it about 9 months. I don’t have any way of knowing if I have improved, but I use the to train exclusively with the voices of 2 people who I normally have a hard time understanding. I don’t see them often enough to know if I can understand them better though. ////// I was tested a year or so ago and found at that time that I had lost hearing over the previous 2 years, so unless the losing has stopped + I improve on my next test, I won’t be able to determine anything.

In reply to @DrMikeinPDX

In academic papers, ~15% don't finish the Program

The app is vended for $499,

Which was developed on state funding.

Dr. Cliff's site offers $170 off, and refers to studies claiming documented measured gains of ~5dB

In reply to @orgullodemexico

Whenever I hear the "considering it delivers priceless value" argument, I put my hand over my wallet. My impression is it was developed ~15+ years ago, with state academic funding to boot.

Literature on training was enthusiastic, then went silent. 15% non-completion/rejection.

Seems lie a good idea, but why did the literature go silent?

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