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AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature

281 点作者 janandonly9 个月前

29 条评论

gklitz9 个月前
This might end up having a huge impact on the entire field of treatment for hearing impairment. A big problem in the field is getting products to patients who could use them, but won’t because of stigma. This particularly true of young patients and unfortunately many might go even decades with a known hearing problem and still ignore it, and this can lead to social isolation and has a huge negative impact on their quality of life. Breaking the stigma of having hearing impairment might lead to these patients seeking out help much much sooner, and even if the AirPods aren’t perfect for everyone they might serve as an easy “on ramp” to getting traditional hearing aids for those who need them.
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nineplay9 个月前
I won&#x27;t speak for everyone but my $1,500 hearing aides are terrible Bluetooth earbuds. Music streamed from my phone is full of static and I end up going back to my trusty wired headphones.<p>If the AirPods work as hearing aides I&#x27;m never going back.
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desert_rue9 个月前
At $250, I could buy my dad three pairs to last him all day and still pay less than his current hearing aids.
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danielovichdk9 个月前
I do not own airpods so don&#x27;t know about quality. But if a hardware company as great as Apple can build a hearing aid earpiece there are some companies that should be very worried.<p>It&#x27;s a huge industry.
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strongpigeon9 个月前
Thank the recent hearing aid deregulation for that. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;16&#x2F;health&#x2F;fda-hearing-aids.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;08&#x2F;16&#x2F;health&#x2F;fda-hearing-aids.h...</a>
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jeffnappi9 个月前
This is great! Hearing aids are stupidly expensive and I hope we see more solutions leveraging mass production to improve accessibility of hearing aid tech<p>Another thing I&#x27;d love to see is affordable AR glasses with auto captioning for noisy environments with many speakers. My mother struggles with hearing loss, and it&#x27;s apparent to me that audio-only solutions are not sufficient for many situations and types of hearing loss.<p>There&#x27;s a small company already working on auto-captioning, but the price point is currently $5k - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanderglasses.com&#x2F;xanderglasses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.xanderglasses.com&#x2F;xanderglasses</a>
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rllearneratwork9 个月前
One thing I love about Apple is that they are building products for what their leadership team actually needs&#x2F;wants and uses themselves. This started with iPhone (e.g. what kind of smartphone do we want instead of all that blackberries?) and is very obvious with Apple Watch line.<p>This is great and one of the reasons why their products offer genuinely best user experience.
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runnr_az9 个月前
They really are amazing. I&#x27;ve been wearing them to concerts to help with noise... work incredibly well. They&#x27;re the only earbuds I&#x27;ve had that survived a full summer of sweaty running in the desert.<p>Grumbling about having to pay $100 for a new case though, while I watch my old case (left on a trail in Sedona) wander around PHX.
arathis9 个月前
Hi.<p>I work in this space. These don&#x27;t replace hearing aids. The gap between needing hearing aids due to significant hearing vs degrading of hearing is about a period of 10 years. During this 10 years your hearing is sub-optimal but not necessarily bad enough for expensive hearing aids.<p>Apple, like others, are not competing with Cochlear.
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liminalsunset9 个月前
The precursor to these features was the &quot;Audio&#x2F;AirPods Accessibility&quot; settings as &quot;Custom Transparency Mode&quot;). When I last tried them, some settings seemed to process the audio in the &quot;control plane&quot; (as opposed to the regular transparency being &quot;data plane&quot;), leading to loss in quality or delay (compared to plain transparency mode). I remember hoping the 2nd gen AirPods Pro would solve this but I think it remained.<p>For example I remember amplifying the sound appeared to introduce some kind of extra delay and quality reduction that wasn&#x27;t there before. I no longer have an iPhone to try this out with but I do wonder if someone knows whether these new features are still subject to this limitation.
skybrian9 个月前
Understanding people and listening to music are different problems. I have hearing aids and they’re better for understanding people (for one thing, the battery lasts longer), but they have no bass response, so I use Airpods for music.<p>Your hearing aid prescription might not be what you want to use for listening to instrumental music. For me it bumps up the treble too much, making a piano sound like a toy piano. An equalizer seems like a better tool for music. I thought Apple’s built in hearing test was pretty good for that, though it would be nice to have more control over the EQ.
ValentineC9 个月前
As someone with potential auditory processing disorder [1], I sometimes need people to repeat themselves if I&#x27;m talking to them in a crowded place.<p>I hope this feature helps me filter speech directed at me from background noise better.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org&#x2F;diseases-conditions&#x2F;auditory-processing-disorder&#x2F;symptoms-causes&#x2F;syc-20555261" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org&#x2F;diseases-conditions&#x2F;auditory-proc...</a>
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izacus9 个月前
Can someone with first hand experience explain how are hearing aids different from in-eat headphones with passthrough? What&#x27;s the technical difference?
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noname1209 个月前
I wish the AirPods Pro 2 had a feature to increase the volume of conversations while reducing the background noise. Something akin to the Sennheiser Conversation Clear Plus: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sennheiser-hearing.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;p&#x2F;conversation-clear-plus&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sennheiser-hearing.com&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;p&#x2F;conversation-clea...</a>
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pretzellogician9 个月前
As an Android-only person, what are the best options for mild hearing assistance? In particular, I&#x27;d like an &quot;open ear&quot; earbud that has Bluetooth support for music.<p>(It sounds like Airpods 4 would fit the bill, with a new Active Noise Cancellation feature -- except they won&#x27;t have Android support.)
yreg9 个月前
One thing that&#x27;s a shame regarding AirPods &#x2F; AirPods Pro is that you cannot try them out at the store (for understandable hygienic reasons).<p>I find it difficult to decide which ones to get or when to upgrade without trying them out.
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hermannj3149 个月前
I&#x27;m just concerned people won&#x27;t like the feature where IRL merchants are muted if they don&#x27;t agree to give Apple a 30% cut of revenue the airpods helped to facilitate.
ksec9 个月前
This is going to be a stupid question.<p>If I want a devices, so I could listen to what I said because my voice in my head when I speak is very different to the voice being projected from a mic to speaker. ( Assuming everyone hearing from the speaker will <i>heard</i> roughly the same ).<p>Is that a hearing aid? If not what devices should I be looking for? Could AirPod be used like that ( without an iPhone ).
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esel2k9 个月前
People say the stigma on hearing aid. But what about the stigma for people feeling that it is inadequate to walk around with airpods and people thinking that this inappropriate &#x2F; say impolite?<p>If someone doesn’t know at least with hearing aid people will be respectful and try to speak clearly, which airpods - hard to tell the difference.
minimaxir9 个月前
The keynote mentioned it&#x27;s for H2 chips, meaning it <i>should</i> also work for the recently announced AirPods 4.
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93po9 个月前
extremely happy for this and have been wanting it for years. i think it&#x27;s panasonic who has a product like this but it&#x27;s like $700+ after tax. my hearing loss isn&#x27;t bad enough to go get a hearing aid, it&#x27;s not a problem 95% of the time. but maybe once a month im in a super loud restaurant for socially obligatory reasons and i cannot hear the conversation basically at all and it&#x27;s a terrible mixture of feeling super bored and also self aware that i look unengaged and i&#x27;m bumming people out&#x2F;making it weird. really happy for this considering i carry these with me 24&#x2F;7 anyway and already own them
daft_pink9 个月前
There was a free app that I used to do this for my father before. Mimi hearing test. They are just bringing this same function to the device by default.<p>Pretty sure you can do the entire thing with existing functionality on the existing airpods and iphone.
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blackeyeblitzar9 个月前
Does anyone know if there is a way to contact Apple and provide feedback&#x2F;requests on accessibility &#x2F; disability features?
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sirsinsalot9 个月前
Sennheiser was also bought out by a leading hearing aid manufacturer a few years back.<p>This industry merge &#x2F; consolidation goes beyond Apple.
niij9 个月前
Does anyone know if these will have CROS functionality (single sided deafness)? Or are they solely same-side amplification?
c2k9 个月前
related: if you want to test your hearing at home, then you can try this app: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;mimi-hearing-test&#x2F;id932496645" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;mimi-hearing-test&#x2F;id932496645</a>
blackeyeblitzar9 个月前
Has anyone else noticed that AirPods Pro’s noise cancellation doesn’t work if you have just one earbud in?
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tmaly9 个月前
This is brilliant!<p>Good hearing aids are super expensive.
maxglute9 个月前
Is this just saying commercial transparencey&#x2F;pass through mode is getting clinical grade? I hope someone comes out with 12+ hour buds for all day &quot;aid&quot;.