Maybe a better phone is a better option.
The hearing aid is a motivation to learn the i-phone though.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: off topic

Howard,
I wonder if somebody could do a smart phone app that would let you shift the
pitch of the voice on an incomming call?
It's certainly possible to do pitch shift, but integrating it into the
phone----- Who knows.
There must be somewhere one can post requests for new apps?
Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 06:43:13PM -0600, howard kaufman wrote:
> Thanks for your observations.  I can wait, but willl keep looking at 
> the issue.  Mobility is how I feel good about me, or at least it used 
> to be.  I just won't talk to foreign women with high voices on the phone.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
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> On Behalf Of Lowell Miller
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:28 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: off topic
> 
> Hello Howard,
> I do have $6000 hearing aids and I do know just exactly what you are 
> talking about!
> I cannot hear those door jams, etc, like I use to at all!
> Let me tell you, my experience is that the hearing aids do not bring 
> back those concepts of hearing we all need as blind persons!
> My mobility skills are not near what they use to be!
> It is very disconcerting to say the least!
> At least, that is my experience, Howard.
> Perhaps others have had better success than I have.
> 73.
> Lowell  W8QIY
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "howard kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 3:27 PM
> Subject: off topic
> 
> 
> > My apologies, because this is very off topic.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am beginning to think seriously about hearing aids.
> >
> > Women's voices with foreign accents are really giving me trouble on 
> > the phone.
> >
> > The problem is that all my mobility is done on facial vision, or 
> > sound shadows, or what ever you want to call it.
> >
> > I tried my friend's $6,000 hearing aids, and they were amazing.
> >
> > Amazing that is until I couldn't hear the sides of a door jam, or 
> > the widening ambience of the stairs in front of me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to have hearing aids, and still hear the things or 
> > lack of things that I need to hear to be a good traveller?
> >
> > So far, I am able to hear cars soon enough to cross the street safely.
> >
> > Its just the things I use like trees and poles that I don't want to
loose.
> >
> > Its not sound, as much as the absence of sound that I listen to.
> >
> > I am sure many of you do the same, and I am sure many of you have 
> > never heard what I am talking about.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Howard Kaufman MSW LCSW
> >
> >