Hearing Aid

“We also did a video where we helped a thousand. Deaf people here again. And a lot of them, it was just giving them like really, really advanced hearing aids so that, you know, and they just hadn't heard in years. And there's this one scene we did where a guy had a newborn child that was like a couple of years old, but it was deaf since the child was born and had never heard his child.”

“media, you know, it could be now, of course, social media. The stigma is that associated with hearing aids and hearing loss, right? I always think of the movie Up or, you know, a movie or a TV show, hearing aids squealing because it's feeding people.”

“And it's big and, you know, it looks like you're disabled. And people have a, you know, it's the social stigma. You know, if you're wearing a hearing aid, then you must be old. Yes. It's a stigma around that. And if I have hearing loss, well, I'm not going to die from it. I don't need to do anything about it. So it's a disadvantage that is out there, more than people think.”

“It's the two words that always gets everybody because of the stigma associated with it, and that's, you know, the hearing aid. Yeah. You know, this. And it's not what it was. It wasn't your grandfather's hearing aid. It's like the size of a coffee bean, what's going in your ear. There's 310 components in here that has to, you know, work all at once and withstand with sweat, hairspray, you name it.”

“And you're talking high-tech sound and, you know, sleep. So it's, but it's more than just sound amplification. It's more than just that hearing aid receiving the sound and amplifying the signal. That's what they used to do. Yeah. Because it'd amplify everything. Right. So now what we're doing with AI, we were the first to bring in AI into hearing technology in 2017. Mm-hmm.”

“But we turned on the language translation and it was pretty wild. Like in almost real time, she would speak fluent Portuguese to me and it was translating it into English.”

“if anything, can you do for chronic tinnitus? Do you match the frequency? Sometimes with the hearing, with our hearing technology, yes, we can mask it and give it that, you know, that white noise effect where it just, you kind of forget about it. It just calms it.”

“But I do know that masking and using hearing aids, if you have a hearing loss or hearing technology can mask it and suppress it where you're not thinking about it. So this is like a, similar to how noise canceling would work. It would match the frequency. It matches, yes. Destructive interference says that at two frequencies of opposite wavelength meet, they cancel out.”

“and then provide that as a constant on to snip that band. Because what I could do with the hearing aids I just showed you is, you know, have them on. Yes, I'm using them the way I want to use them, but I could have the masker on because I have tinnitus, but I just remembered it sitting here talking to you.”

“And it could feed, give the feedback to the patient through our app. Through the app, which could control the hearing aid. But also, you could give it permission and then through our HearShare app, the family, mom, dad, who the caretakers are, can get the information as well. Just out of curiosity, how many languages do you translate?”

“you know, gets the, gets her husband in there for a hearing test. It's like, you better start listening to me and if you're not, you're going to get a hearing aid. Yeah. That's amazing. And that's why Damon was one of the reasons we talked is, you know, he's wearing. He loves you guys, man. I mean, he's like, yeah, I can't wait for you to, you guys to meet. And, you know,”

“too loud at night. That's what he noticed. He's like, I can do something about this because, you know, you stream right into his hearing aids and there's no sound. But with him, you know, he, you know, it's, you know, he's, working with him has been great because he gives a different perspective of outside of, you know, what I work with.”

“they're very self-aware because they have to perform. You know, they want to do something about it. If their hearing aid is, you know, is not working, they're calling us right away because they get in a panic because it disconnects them from the most important job is that's working with people or entertaining people.”

“where they just go in and they're like, and it allows you to hear, I mean, with the microphone and, and good hearing technology. So you're not being over amplified by anything, but again, then it shuts it off in the loud. Okay. So starkey.com is where they can find you. And what about you personally?”