> What if, instead, the calibration process worked constantly? Give the user a button to press when they don't hear something well, and another when they do.
On TVs, they call those buttons volume buttons, it is revolutionary.
On TVs, they call those buttons volume buttons, it is revolutionary.
And just like the TV remote they increase all sounds - good (speech) and bad (music and explosions).
The issue is not just "is it loud enough" but rather, "can you understand what you want to hear when you want to hear it?"
imagine yourself at a busy restaurant. you want to hear your spouses speach better, and the wait staff- but turning their speech up also turns up the people you do not want to hear.
how do you fix that?
noise reduction, speech enhancement, directional microphones are just some of the tools a hearing aid uses.
But ultimately what needs to happen is your brain works harder at comprehending what you want to hear(yes, it is work, and like all work people do not want to do it).
So they think...hmmm, I will just pay $xxxx.xx and I wont have to work anymore.
Whether like me, you never got the hang of a retainer after braces - or went off braces too soon, in my case - there has been a number of companies trying to get costs down and make the process less expensive and onerous.
Yet, talking to my regular dentist, who has used Invisalign with patients before, it's not the fact that there are more competitors in the field, essentially putting pressure on the DMD's and others to up their game, it's that after the initial consult, the entire process is (largely) unsupervised.
If you don't fit (or tune) something like this properly, it doesn't work.
Also a problem if you're not a native speaker. I am fluent in English and have been able to watch movies without subtitles for 20 years at least, probably more.
But put me in a noisy bar and my error correction suffers a lot. Suddenly it's hard to follow a conversation that in my native language would be effortless.
The worst situation is listening to a loud video on bad speakers. Doesn't matter how much you crank the volume, people are hard to understand because the brain's error correction isn't good enough. Use a good speaker and turn down the volume, suddenly it's perfect.
This is of course a huge oversimplification, and aiming for it is probably what the industry is doing.
but your idea is great too. if you can't hear one frequency, let's amplify all frequencies till the one you need gets loud enough, and go deaf to the other ones in a year. when you get old and need a hearing aid, you should stick with your method.