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Enabling hearing aid features on TWS earphones #audio #hearingaid

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:03:00 +0000

Hearing aid technology have come up a long way, they are tiny that it's unnoticeable on a person wearing one, highly efficient, customisable from app and can give super human hearing abilities but at a premium price. Luckily TWS (True Wireless Stereo) bluetooth earphone technology has grown exponentially as well and many of its features are synonymous with premium hearing aids but at lower cost.

Ever since Apple removed 3.5 mm audio jack in its iPhones, other manufacturers have been following the suit and fuelled by the demand there's no dearth of TWS earphones at different price range. Though the primary function of TWS earphones are to output what is available to the phone speaker via bluetooth to the in-ear earphones, some of the available tech can be used to enable hearing aid features.

Hearing aid features such as audio amplification can be enabled via the combination of mic in the earphones and audio processing in the app. Ambient noise cancellation can be enabled in the same way, giving us a quiet ambience on demand when we need to focus. All these without any prejudice which comes from wearing hearing aids.

5 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Listening to obscure international radio station #radio #audio

Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:06:00 +0000

I'm under lockdown in a foreign country, like many in my situation I'm home sick. When home sick, there are things which we can do to rejoice memories of home; for some it's cooking, watching favourite family show etc. for me it's listening to FM radio stations back home.

But, not all radio stations are available online especially when the station is from tier 3 or lower cities in India. Even when the online portal for a radio station is available, they play streams from select top-tier cities.

I would like to have a Spotify like app, which can play streams from FM radio stations from anywhere in the world.

3 points posted by Rupsana

Wireless headphones glitch when out of range #audio #connectivity

Fri, 28 May 2021 08:21:00 +0000

It is really annoying when the music on my headphones starts to glitch the moment I move away from my mobile/ipad, I mean what's the point of it being wireless for a very limited range, obviously bluetooth is a low power tech and won't give you the ranges that technologies like wifi promise but for a start it would be great if headphones had the capability to store the next 10-15 songs so that I don't have to worry about keeping my phone with me all the time.

There can be other applications of the tech like an inbuilt walkman/ipod inside the headphones but my concern for now is to nothing but to improve the music listening experience.

2 points posted by dbygaby

Listening to an audiobook and resume with ebook #books #audio

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Audiobooks are a great medium for enjoying a story when occupied by some other task, i.e. driving or cooking. Since most people can read much faster than the speed language is spoken at, reading text is the preferred method if one can apply their full attention. Why can't I listen to an audiobook while driving home, then pick up where I left off in the ebook?

Existing solutions for this experience require users to buy the audiobook and ebook separately on different platforms which do not sync with each other, meaning a lot of time spent flipping through pages in the ebook (the number of which is completely unknown as it is not information available when listening to the audiobook) to find where to resume reading.

1 points posted by bzlister