The social impact of a better and more affordable hearing aid would be immense. Especially since the social isolation of hearing loss takes such a devastating toll on one’s social life. And it’s there’s interesting technical challenges that have to be solved. Mainly packing as much digital signal processing onto a very low compute environment.
As someone with hearing loss, it’s sad to see promising startups like Whisper.AI leave the market. There should be dozens of hearing aid startups out there. Where are they?
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
Another tidbit of info I have is that if you have an annoying sound, like say your neighbor is playing music, it is only annoying if you know you can’t change it. If you’re friends with the neighbor and so you know you can go over and stop it, it’ll suddenly stop being annoying and you won’t even ask for it.
Thr question is if this is applicable to you and if you could somehow trick yourself into that. Magbe by meditating you could go into the sound instead of your usual pattern of trying to get away from it. That way you grow a new habit of sort of going with it and finding it enjoyable even in some way.
At least that helped me with a lot of other stuff like emotions.