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Re:Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? by gooch9 on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:44PM (#15537917)
My solution - buy a high end smart phone - the more (directional) mics it has the better. Add a high quality "spouse mic" that you can place whereever you want on conference table/dining table/nightstand/next to the door bell. Most phones, home assitants, the kinect etc come with with mic arrays and have ridiculously sophisticated audio stacks. You can't do cutting edge speech rec without those stacks.

These ridiculous hearing aid companies are going to go the way of dinosaurs soon. And good riddance.

Re:Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @05:20PM (#15545339)
I'm not really sure what you're proposing here. Any system that requires location-based setup seems obviously inferior to a system that rides in your ear and just works wherever you go.