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My son's audiologist is (of course) quite bearish on this whole prospect. Her response was to ask who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods.
by julianlam 2y ago
My son's audiologist is (of course) quite bearish on this whole prospect. Her response was to ask who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods.
I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.
- ender341341 2y agoI feel like that's letting perfect be in the way of better. Are airpods the best hearing aid? no, but they cost 1/5 the cost from what I'm seeing for 'cheap' professionally fit & programmed hearing aids which opens it up to a lot of people who otherwise might be struggling to interact with the world.
- duskwuff 2y agoYep. They're also a hearing aid that isn't conspicuously a hearing aid (i.e. "I'm not hard of hearing, I was just listening to some music earlier and haven't taken them out"). For younger users who might feel self-conscious about using a hearing aid, that's a big plus.
- DoctorOW 2y ago> I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though. Even if it isn't, the audio programming capability can likely be added to the software completely eliminating hardware costs for anyone who already owns Airpods.
- SSLy 2y ago> who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods. you mean using the gram output as filter stack? That's in the options > airpods > on the bottom.
- duskwuff 2y agoIt can also scan in a printed audiogram (using the camera) and apply corrections based on that.
- gedy 2y ago> Her response was to ask who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods. I'm not following, Apple has released a hearing test app with this and it works quite well. (I use these as hearing aids)