Hi,
I have mild-to-moderate cookie bite hearing loss, and I’m hearing pretty well with my HAs. There are some people, though, that I just cannot understand. It’s not how loud they are, as they sound perfectly loud. And it doesn’t seem to be how high or low their voices are. It seems almost as if it’s people with a sort of flattened affect to how they talk. They’ll say an entire sentence, and it just sounds like one long mumble. I’ll ask them to repeat themselves, and I still won’t understand a single word. Everyone else, I can understand most words.
I was told that different letters map to different frequencies. Is this true? Is this independent of how high or low someone’s voice is? Does anyone know, is there something fairy simple that I can read that would explain how voices work?
I’m wondering if it is worth trying to adjust the aids to these few people’s voices. Is it plausible to try to record a voice and take it to the audiologist? Or are there just some voices that are hard to understand?
My audiogram:
250 R30 L35
500 R30 L45
1K R45 L45
2K R50 L50
3K R45 L45
4K R35 L35
6K R20 L25
8K R15 L20