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Hearing App at a Theater

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Last week I went to a local theater that really seems to care about people with hearing loss. The app that they have available was Sennheiser Mobile App. I first connected to their wife, then made sure my bluetooth was on. Next, I opened the app which is available inside the theater. During the performance which was in a small theater, I was able to understand about 95% of the dialog. There was a tiny delay of their talking and the words that I heard and the words did not sound "natural" but overall it was a really good experience.

The manager said that they are now ordering google glasses for the theater and they were testing different ones. I was really impressed with this and it shows that when someone cares about helping people with hearing loss hear better that there are ways to do it.

I was wondering if there will ever be a hearing aid that will work this well for speech clarity in normal every day conversations.

That 95% figure is really impressive — it shows how much direct streaming to your ears beats trying to catch everything through room acoustics. The tiny delay and slightly unnatural sound is pretty normal with these systems, since the audio is being processed and transmitted. I think hearing aids will keep getting better at this, but a theater sending clean audio straight to your ears will probably always have an edge in a noisy venue.

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