Wireless earbuds as hearing aids? Okay.
Hi guys. Cliff Olson,
Doctor of Audiology and founder of Applied Hearing Solutions in Phoenix,
Arizona.
And in this video I'm gonna show you how to use wireless earbuds as hearing aids
to treat your hearing loss coming up.
Ever since Apple released their AirPods back in 2016,
we have seen a dramatic spike in the amount of individuals using wireless
earbuds. Five years ago,
the increased use of wireless earbuds in social situations,
especially when you were having a conversation,
was surrounded by stigma that has since gone away. In fact,
almost everybody is comfortable having a conversation with somebody else who is
wearing earbuds without even skipping a beat. This may have you wondering,
if all day use of wireless earbuds is becoming the norm,
why couldn't you just use these as hearing aids? Well,
that is exactly what I'm gonna be talking about in today's video.
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There would be a lot of benefits associated with using wireless earbuds to treat
your hearing loss. First of all,
if you didn't want someone else to know that you have a hearing loss and that
you needed hearing aids to treat that hearing loss,
you wouldn't have to worry about it because everyone would just think that
you're wearing a pair of wireless earbuds instead. Now,
I'll be the first to say that the stigma surrounding hearing loss is dying,
but if you're one of the few remaining people who still cares whether or not
other people think you have a hearing loss,
then I'm not gonna try to change your mind if that's the way you feel.
Since the use of wireless earbuds is so common,
no one would even question your use of them or whether or not you're using an
amplification function to treat your hearing loss. The second benefit of using
wireless earbuds to treat your hearing loss is that they sit entirely inside of
your ears.
Some hearing aids that go behind your ears can interfere with things like
glasses, hats, visors, and headbands.
Any time that you can free up real estate on top of or behind your ears could be
beneficial,
especially if you still have to wear a face mask going into certain situations
like a doctor's office.
The third benefit that you would get from using a set of wireless earbuds to
treat your hearing losses,
that you would have all day access to stream audio directly from your smart
device into both of your ears.
One thing that stinks about being in a public situation is that if you need to
listen to something on your phone,
you need to play it through this speaker phone, and if you have a hearing loss,
you need to play it loud enough so you can actually hear it. The problem is,
is that annoys everybody else around you. However,
if you're already wearing a pair of wireless earbuds to treat your hearing loss,
then you could use those same earbuds to stream audio directly from your smart
device into both of your ears so it doesn't bother anybody else.
This is what we like to call having your cake and eating it too,
and as amazing as it would be to treat your hearing loss with a pair of wireless
earbuds, the bad news is, is that technology like this doesn't exist yet. Now,
before you go down to the comments section and start correcting me saying that
there are some wireless earbuds that can amplify sound, I know,
but the amplification capabilities of those devices at this point in time are
not very good at all. Also, all of these devices are generically made,
meaning when you put them inside of their ears,
they tend to be uncomfortable. You can't wear them for very long,
and on top of that, the battery life is horrible. That's why ReSound,
today's video sponsor, developed a custom lineup of premium hearing aids,
so you could treat your hearing loss with the device that looks like a wireless
earbud.
Not only are the Customs by ReSound a fantastic hearing aid capable of treating
even the most complex cases of hearing loss,
but they look exactly like a wireless earbud when in your ears.
Let me give you a little close up of what these guys actually look like.
And so you can see the face plate here.
You can tell that that was definitely inspired by Jabra right there.
And the thing that I like about that is a nice size push button that's really
easy to feel so you can change your volume.
You can change your settings inside of your hearing aids without having to pull
out your smartphone,
even though these are compatible with your smartphone as well using the ReSound
Smart 3D app. Personally, the Anthrocite color is my favorite color,
but they do have a variety of different colors as well.
So if you want these devices to look more like a hearing aid and less like a
wireless earbud, you can do that too. And yes,
they are significantly more comfortable than any wireless earbud that is
currently out there because they are custom made for your ears.
To make the Customs by ReSound hearing aids,
your hearing care professional will either take a custom ear mold impression of
your ears using a silicone material,
or they will use a 3D scanner to take a digital impression of your ears.
That can be sent to ReSound so they can make a custom pair of hearing aids just
for you. But ReSound did not stop there.
They made their custom hearing aids rechargeable with a lithium battery that
gives you all day battery life,
even if you're streaming throughout the day. This means unlike wireless earbuds
that only get you four to five hours of battery life at a time,
you don't have to constantly take them out of your ears and stick them back in
the charger so you can make it through a full day. Nope,
all you have to do at the end of the day is take them out of your ears and stick
them inside of your custom charger. And yes,
I did say custom charger because when your digital scans are sent off to
ReSound,
they actually build you a custom insert that goes inside of
your charging case,
so it can hold your hearing aids in the proper orientation to not only make sure
that it has consistent and stable charging,
but also so when you go to take the hearing aid out of the case,
it goes back into your ear canal.
Super easy. As far as Bluetooth streaming goes,
they are compatible with both Apple devices and Android devices,
so you can stream any kind of audio directly from your phone into both of your
ears, whether that's audio, books, podcasts, YouTube videos, music,
or even phone calls for what it's worth. In my opinion,
these are by far the coolest looking custom hearing aids on the market because
basically they do not look like hearing aids.
All I have to say is that it is about time that we now have access to custom
hearing aid technology that doesn't look like a traditional hearing aid.
It looks more like a wireless earbud, but it performs like a hearing aid.
So if you're someone who's been putting off treating your hearing loss cuz you
don't like the idea of wearing hearing aids,
but you are comfortable wearing earbuds throughout the day,
then the Customs by ReSound hearing aids might be the perfect hearing aids for
you. That's it for this video. If you have any questions,
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