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There's something I think must be possible and wonder if it would be useful: using noise cancelling earphones to mimic someone else's hearing loss. The idea is

There's something I think must be possible and wonder if it would be useful: using noise cancelling earphones to mimic someone else's hearing loss. The idea is if you live with someone with hearing loss, you could enter the frequencies they can't hear, and cancel only those. Then you could spend a day with these in to try to get a more direct understanding of which noises they can hear and which they can't.

mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
just the fact you instinctively thought of the use case to understand and empathize with this disability better, is very cool of you
pfannkuchen 11mo ago
Cancelling aperiodic noise requires time travel to work, doesn’t it? So you could feel what it feels like to be that person on an airplane bare-headed, or next to a fan, or perhaps even beside a river, but beyond that I don’t think the technology is there.
lnsru 11mo ago
It makes no sense at all. You have measurable frequency range. But you have no idea how particular brain weights the specific frequencies in the range. Some people can live comfortable life hearing only 200 Hz to 6000 Hz from birth. The other people freak out hearing 8000 Hz coil whine sound. It’s not an universal thing.
dmcc7897 11mo ago
Whilst I have no idea how well this would work, I would definitely appreciate something like this. Rather than noise cancelling headphones, I’d be happy with an audio recording that has my loss applied to it. Anything to demonstrate what it’s like would help awareness and understanding.
- 392 11mo ago
  Email your audiologist and ask for your audiogram. Should be straightforward to apply an equalizer to match it, esp if can find an equalizer with db(a? m?) labels
pcrh 11mo ago
Pending that, there are a number of videos on YouTube that show simulated hearing loss, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOpW-4XFqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOpW-4XFqM
Aldipower 11mo ago
As most later hearing loss starts from the high frequencies, like mine, it is enough to put a good amount of cotton whool in your ears. No kidding, this should simulate it pretty well.

mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago

just the fact you instinctively thought of the use case to understand and empathize with this disability better, is very cool of you

pfannkuchen 11mo ago

Cancelling aperiodic noise requires time travel to work, doesn’t it? So you could feel what it feels like to be that person on an airplane bare-headed, or next to a fan, or perhaps even beside a river, but beyond that I don’t think the technology is there.

lnsru 11mo ago

It makes no sense at all. You have measurable frequency range. But you have no idea how particular brain weights the specific frequencies in the range. Some people can live comfortable life hearing only 200 Hz to 6000 Hz from birth. The other people freak out hearing 8000 Hz coil whine sound. It’s not an universal thing.

dmcc7897 11mo ago

Whilst I have no idea how well this would work, I would definitely appreciate something like this. Rather than noise cancelling headphones, I’d be happy with an audio recording that has my loss applied to it. Anything to demonstrate what it’s like would help awareness and understanding.

392 11mo ago
Email your audiologist and ask for your audiogram. Should be straightforward to apply an equalizer to match it, esp if can find an equalizer with db(a? m?) labels

pcrh 11mo ago

Pending that, there are a number of videos on YouTube that show simulated hearing loss, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOpW-4XFqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOpW-4XFqM

Aldipower 11mo ago

As most later hearing loss starts from the high frequencies, like mine, it is enough to put a good amount of cotton whool in your ears. No kidding, this should simulate it pretty well.