The Cala 8 with an iPhone also supports using the iPhone as a mic. Just put the phone in live mic mode and put it near the speaker. I’ve only tried it briefly with my KS6 aids and again then I was trialing the Cala 8.
Phonak also offers a mini or micro mic that works with the ComPilot II. I have one but have never used it. It was a free accessory with my Brio aids.
As has been said, Phonak is charging lots of money for old rope with the Roger solution - the 2017 pricing for the bits is heinous when you consider what it actually does.
The Resound accessories aren’t cheap, but the MicroMic is very good at what it does.
I would also suggest that with your level of hearing loss, if you can’t hear soft voices, your hearing aids aren’t properly fitted. It’s a Mild-Moderate loss and should be very easy to fit.
Thanks. What does “BT” stand for in a mic? You don’t mean a behind-the-ear mic, right? Does it go by another name so that I can research it? As I understand the Cala8 gets a good review, and I suppose I would have to buy them and not be able to use their mic with my current set?
I thought the same, so went for adjustment last December but didn’t see much improvement. I wish I lived closer to the store. I’m over 2 hours away, which makes that difficult.
BT in this context is Bluetooth.
Duh, I knew that. Can you tell I just drove about 13 hours returning from vacation? I haven’t returned to the real world yet. lol
I can’t use my iPhone as a speaker for work purposes, because I can’t put it near the speaker. I need to use something that sits on my desk, which is in the range of 10-15, and at times more, feet from the people speaking.
Then you’re misunderstanding the whole concept of these remote mics, or the live mic iPhone feature. The idea is that the mic is by or even clipped to the speaker, and the sound is sent to your aids. If you can’t put it near the speaker, any of these devices are of no use.
And that, Jay, is what I needed to know. I can possibly put the pen near 1 or 2 of the speakers, or a small mic. Otherwise, it needs to sit near me.
Your best bet is to have one of the programs set to forward bias and as strong as it can be set that way. This will concentrate speech in the direction you are looking.
Awesome! I will do that. I definitely need some tweaking…or a new/different set. Thanks!
Must be a large office… Microphones aren’t made to be used away from the speaker. Ever notice professional speakers, singers, etc… They all hold the mic in their face. Are they sitting in free range chairs or at a conf table of some sort.
I thought that beside the lanyard around the neck and table conference mode, the Roger Pen also has an interview mode where you can hold and point it toward the speaker to help reduce surrounding noise and help reduce the acoustically perceived distance by up to 75%. That is what I got from this link here: Best Hearing in Noise, Guaranteed. | Ossicle Kelowna Hearing Aids and Tinnitus Treatment
I don’t own a Roger Pen so I can’t vouch for any of that. I’m only relaying what I read through that link above. Whether you believe what they say there or not is up to you to decide.
I don’t work in an office. Just trying to find something that may help. I came here because I didn’t understand what BT mics may help, or if they would. My aud sent me home with one four years ago she felt it would help, but I couldn’t get a constant connection at that time.
IMNSHO, unless you can hang the mic on each individual or have them pass one around you’re pretty much screwed.
Surely someone on this forum has used a Roger Pen and can answer if it works by pointing it at someone. My guess is Doc is right.
I have tried several directional mics and can offer the following options. In a table setting, for example, they work pretty well if you are pointing it at the speaker front 2 to 6 feet if background noise is minimal. In noisy environments, I’m not sure anything can be much better. It also depends on the speech discrimination score as to how well a microphone can work. For me the Roger Pen produces a good signal for my own loss. I just didn’t get a benefit over my FM Microphone to warrant the cost of the Roger Pen.
In a group of chatting people I need to be able to point a directional microphone to the person I want to listen to. I have the Resound Multi Mic which is very good with few persons attending, but it is not very selective. I would be helped if I could connect my Multi Mic to a directional microphone. I have tried several, but no sound is streaming.
I have also tried if an external microhone could be streaming sound through my iPhone to my hearing aid, but I can not find a setting where I tell the iPhone to listen to the Lightning port and not the internal microphone. Any suggestions?
I use my Roger Touchscreen like this. It works very well. I’m happy.
Hi, thanks for your comment. My Resound MicroMic seems to do the same thing.
What I would like to have is a noise canceling super directional microphone to cover a distance up to 10 feet or more in order to listen to that one person in the middle of chatter and background noise. Maybe that is too much to ask of today’s technology?
I try to find what requirements there are for the MicroMic to accept an external microphone. Another way to go would be to connect the mic to my iPhone and stream the sound from the iPhone to my hearing aid . But there seems to be a problem of how to tell the iPhone to connect to the Lightning port/external mic and not to the internal mic.