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In the previous video of this series I showed you 3 simple tricks you can use to reduce echo in a room. In this video I’m going to show you how to measure the echo in a room. Why? Because it’s useful to put a number on the level of echo you can tolerate. That’s gonna help you adjust the …
The pros and cons of having visible hearing aids. Last Wednesday—a first Wednesday of the month—several hearing-loss champions gathered on Twitter for #hearinglosshour, a public hearing-loss chat group. This group is run by a brilliant deaf writer and entrepreneur, Angie Aspinall. She is very talented, but she wields one super skill that leaves me speechless: Angie can sustain multiple conversations …
This weekend is Christmas! Woohoo! Bells will ring, and Santa will hover the skies in his sleigh. Even better: the whole family will get together, and we’ll get to catch up with all those people we don’t usually see. Family members and dear friends. Jolly times ahead, right? Except for those with hearing loss; Christmas gathering is one of the …
Echo-y rooms make my brain go ballistic. Whenever I’m having a group conversation in an echo-y room, everybody else seems to understand each other like nothing’s wrong. Me? I am concentrating like the Dalai Lama. Even so, I can’t make sense of a single sentence. It’s the worst nightmare of my life. Alright. An echo-y room may not be as …