[nfb-db] nfb-db Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2Are You Listening to Music?
Catherine Miller
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Sun Aug 3 12:36:17 UTC 2014
Herardo: You wear earbuds on your BTEs? I've been trying to configure that for years with no success. How do you get the earbuds to stay in place? I've tried alligator clips, but I'm afraid they'll bite into the wires and damage them. I use headphones but they're uncomfortable. I've held earbuds up to the microphone on my CI sound processor and experienced the best sound quality ever; but my arm gets tired holding the earbud in place. please tell me how you attach the earbuds to your behind-the-ear device. Cathy Miller
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> 1. Re: Fwd: FCC Seeks Comment on the National Deaf-Blind
> Equipment Distribution Program (Janice Toothman)
> 2. Are you listening to music? (Gerardo Corripio)
> 3. Re: Are you listening to music? (Sterling Shadowwolf)
> 4. Re: Are you listening to music? (Janice Toothman)
> 5. Re: Are you listening to music? (Delcenia Brown)
> 6. Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) (Chris Westbrook)
> 7. Re: Are you listening to music? (Scott Davert)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:41:15 -0400
> From: Janice Toothman <janice.toothman at verizon.net>
> To: Scott Davert <scottdavert at gmail.com>, NFB Deaf-Blind Division
> Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Fwd: FCC Seeks Comment on the National
> Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program
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> Hi Scott,
> Thank you for posting this. We all need to submit comments both
> positive and critical about the NDBEDP before the expiration date. Thank
> you for sending the links at the bottom of the email.
> Janice
>> On 8/1/2014 10:32 PM, Scott Davert via nfb-db wrote:
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>>> *From:* AccessInfo <AccessInfo at fcc.gov <mailto:AccessInfo at fcc.gov>>
>>> *Date:* August 1, 2014 at 1:52:15 PM PDT
>>> *To:* "'scottdavert at gmail.com <mailto:scottdavert at gmail.com>'"
>>> <scottdavert at gmail.com <mailto:scottdavert at gmail.com>>
>>> *Subject:* *FCC Seeks Comment on the National Deaf-Blind Equipment
>>> Distribution Program*
>>>
>>> *Comment Deadline: August 22, 2014*
>>>
>>> *Reply Comment Deadline: September 5, 2014*
>>>
>>> On August 1, 2014, the FCC released a Public Notice asking for
>>> comments about the National Deaf-Blind Equipment Distribution Program
>>> (NDBEDP).
>>>
>>> The NDBEDP is a program that the FCC established as directed by the
>>> Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of
>>> 2010 (CVAA). The NDBEDP provides funding support for the
>>> distribution of equipment needed to access telecommunications,
>>> advanced communications services, and the Internet to low-income
>>> individuals who are deaf-blind. The NDBEDP has been operating as a
>>> pilot program since July 1, 2012. The rules governing the pilot
>>> program will expire on June 30, 2015.
>>>
>>> In this Public Notice, the FCC invites the public to provide feedback
>>> on ways that the FCC can make the NDBEDP more effective and more
>>> efficient. This feedback will help the FCC establish rules to
>>> continue the NDBEDP as a permanent program when the pilot program ends.
>>>
>>> Links to the Public Notice:
>>>
>>> Word: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-14-1128A1.docx
>>>
>>> PDF: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-14-1128A1.pdf
>>>
>>> Text: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-14-1128A1.txt
>>>
>>> The Public Notice includes instructions for filing comments. If you
>>> need assistance filing comments or more information, please contact
>>> Jackie Ellington at 202-418-1153 or Jackie.Ellington at fcc.gov
>>> <mailto:Jackie.Ellington at fcc.gov>, or Rosaline Crawford at
>>> 202-418-2075 or Rosaline.Crawford at fcc.gov
>>> <mailto:Rosaline.Crawford at fcc.gov>, of the Consumer and Governmental
>>> Affairs Bureau, Disability Rights Office.
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> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:27:59 -0500
> From: Gerardo Corripio <gera1027 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
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> HI listers
> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when in the
> store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason is because as
> most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a 70% hearing loss; I've
> got an IPhone, and always have atop my hearing aids the earbuds for the
> hands free piece, in case I get a call, I only have to press the button
> on the hands free and away I anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing
> aid if you understand what I mean because my hearing aids are those that
> go behind the ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always
> having these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad
> says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus appreciate
> any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have earbuds on, then
> what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing aids have to offer? What
> I'm wanting is when I get a call, not waste time getting the phone out
> of my pocket, have to put the phone up to my hearing aids to hear what
> the caller id info says etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds
> on the aids, would be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
>
> --
> Enviado desde mi lap
> Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psic?logo, Terap?uta Reiki
> Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas M?xico
> RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicolog?a/Superaci?n Personal S?bados 10PM M?xico http://radiogeneral.com ?los esperamos!
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 14:45:20 -0700
> From: Sterling Shadowwolf <soulalibi at gmail.com>
> To: Gerardo Corripio <gera1027 at gmail.com>, NFB Deaf-Blind Division
> Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
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> Gerardo,
> Personally speaking, I hate the earbuds. Because they draw unwanted
> attention to your ears and they look kinda odd. I wear both a CI and a
> digital hearing aid. And I use what's called a RogerLink Pen FM System.
> This looks like any other FM system and you wear it around your neck like a
> necklace. The system first needs to be parred to your iPhone via Bluetooth.
> In my case, the digital hearing aid's T-coil mode comes on automatically.
> Which means if I get an incoming call and I answer the phone call, the
> T-coil mode comes on automatically. For my CI, I have to use my remote to
> switch the mode into T-coil settings. The RogerLink Pen works on both my CI
> and hearing aid at the same time, which gives me optimum listening
> performance because I'm listening to the conversation with both ears, plus
> the background noises/commotion blocked out (isn't today's technology
> wonderful?). Depending on your hearing aid type or model, I would highly
> recommend the RogerLink Pen FM System. Talk to your audiologist about this
> device to determine if this works on your hearing aids. It does work well
> with the iPhone devices.
>
> -Sterling
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nfb-db <
> nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> HI listers
>> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when in the
>> store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason is because as
>> most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a 70% hearing loss; I've
>> got an IPhone, and always have atop my hearing aids the earbuds for the
>> hands free piece, in case I get a call, I only have to press the button on
>> the hands free and away I anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing aid
>> if you understand what I mean because my hearing aids are those that go
>> behind the ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always
>> having these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad
>> says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus appreciate
>> any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have earbuds on, then
>> what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing aids have to offer? What I'm
>> wanting is when I get a call, not waste time getting the phone out of my
>> pocket, have to put the phone up to my hearing aids to hear what the caller
>> id info says etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds on the aids,
>> would be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
>>
>> --
>> Enviado desde mi lap
>> Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psic?logo, Terap?uta Reiki
>> Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas M?xico
>> RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicolog?a/Superaci?n Personal S?bados 10PM
>> M?xico http://radiogeneral.com ?los esperamos!
>>
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> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:17:00 -0400
> From: Janice Toothman <janice.toothman at verizon.net>
> To: Sterling Shadowwolf <soulalibi at gmail.com>, NFB Deaf-Blind Division
> Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
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> Hi Gerardo,
> I agree with Sterling. I use an FM system that connects with my cell
> phone via Bluetooth and it is great. There are several different major
> companies that produce FM systems. I did not know that they also made
> one to interface with a CI, if I understood Sterling. I use Phonak.
> They call my "necklace" the Compilot. I have never been able to use
> earbuds since I had my hearing loss.
> Janice
>> On 8/2/2014 5:45 PM, Sterling Shadowwolf via nfb-db wrote:
>> Gerardo,
>> Personally speaking, I hate the earbuds. Because they draw unwanted
>> attention to your ears and they look kinda odd. I wear both a CI and a
>> digital hearing aid. And I use what's called a RogerLink Pen FM
>> System. This looks like any other FM system and you wear it around
>> your neck like a necklace. The system first needs to be parred to your
>> iPhone via Bluetooth. In my case, the digital hearing aid's T-coil
>> mode comes on automatically. Which means if I get an incoming call and
>> I answer the phone call, the T-coil mode comes on automatically. For
>> my CI, I have to use my remote to switch the mode into T-coil
>> settings. The RogerLink Pen works on both my CI and hearing aid at the
>> same time, which gives me optimum listening performance because I'm
>> listening to the conversation with both ears, plus the background
>> noises/commotion blocked out (isn't today's technology wonderful?).
>> Depending on your hearing aid type or model, I would highly recommend
>> the RogerLink Pen FM System. Talk to your audiologist about this
>> device to determine if this works on your hearing aids. It does work
>> well with the iPhone devices.
>>
>> -Sterling
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nfb-db
>> <nfb-db at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-db at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
>>
>> HI listers
>> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when
>> in the store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason
>> is because as most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a
>> 70% hearing loss; I've got an IPhone, and always have atop my
>> hearing aids the earbuds for the hands free piece, in case I get a
>> call, I only have to press the button on the hands free and away I
>> anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing aid if you understand
>> what I mean because my hearing aids are those that go behind the
>> ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always having
>> these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad
>> says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus
>> appreciate any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have
>> earbuds on, then what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing
>> aids have to offer? What I'm wanting is when I get a call, not
>> waste time getting the phone out of my pocket, have to put the
>> phone up to my hearing aids to hear what the caller id info says
>> etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds on the aids, would
>> be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
>>
>> --
>> Enviado desde mi lap
>> Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psic?logo, Terap?uta Reiki
>> Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas M?xico
>> RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicolog?a/Superaci?n Personal
>> S?bados 10PM M?xico http://radiogeneral.com ?los esperamos!
>>
>>
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> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 20:35:05 -0400
> From: "Delcenia Brown" <delcenia at prodigy.net>
> To: "Janice Toothman" <janice.toothman at verizon.net>, "NFB Deaf-Blind
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
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> Hi Gerardo,
>
> I also do not like the earbud. I personally do two different things. First, sometimes I use headphones. Yes, it can be a headache or a little bothersome to place headphones over hearing aids. However, that what I prefer sometimes and I do not care what it looks like. I would wear headphones when I am using my pocket talker which is another type of fm system. secondly, I have an Icon which I believe it is made by Phonics. This is my bluetooth. I wear it around my neck and it is paired with my IPhone and when I have a incoming call I push the button on the front of the ICon to answer the call. It all depends on your preference and your hearing aid. Also, on the bottom of my Icon there is a opening for a two way cord to insert into anywhere headphones go so I can listen to my music or read a book.
>
>
> Delcenia
> From: Janice Toothman via nfb-db
> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 7:17 PM
> To: Sterling Shadowwolf ; NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
>
> Hi Gerardo,
> I agree with Sterling. I use an FM system that connects with my cell phone via Bluetooth and it is great. There are several different major companies that produce FM systems. I did not know that they also made one to interface with a CI, if I understood Sterling. I use Phonak. They call my "necklace" the Compilot. I have never been able to use earbuds since I had my hearing loss.
> Janicebud.
>
> On 8/2/2014 5:45 PM, Sterling Shadowwolf via nfb-db wrote:
>
> Gerardo,
> Personally speaking, I hate the earbuds. Because they draw unwanted attention to your ears and they look kinda odd. I wear both a CI and a digital hearing aid. And I use what's called a RogerLink Pen FM System. This looks like any other FM system and you wear it around your neck like a necklace. The system first needs to be parred to your iPhone via Bluetooth. In my case, the digital hearing aid's T-coil mode comes on automatically. Which means if I get an incoming call and I answer the phone call, the T-coil mode comes on automatically. For my CI, I have to use my remote to switch the mode into T-coil settings. The RogerLink Pen works on both my CI and hearing aid at the same time, which gives me optimum listening performance because I'm listening to the conversation with both ears, plus the background noises/commotion blocked out (isn't today's technology wonderful?). Depending on your hearing aid type or model, I would highly recommend the RogerLink Pen FM System. Talk to your audiologist about this device to determine if this works on your hearing aids. It does work well with the iPhone devices.
>
> -Sterling
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nfb-db <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> HI listers
> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when in the store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason is because as most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a 70% hearing loss; I've got an IPhone, and always have atop my hearing aids the earbuds for the hands free piece, in case I get a call, I only have to press the button on the hands free and away I anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing aid if you understand what I mean because my hearing aids are those that go behind the ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always having these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus appreciate any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have earbuds on, then what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing aids have to offer? What I'm wanting is when I get a call, not waste time getting the phone out of my pocket, have to put the phone up to my hearing aids to hear what the caller id info says etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds on the aids, would be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
>
> --
> Enviado desde mi lap
> Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psic?logo, Terap?uta Reiki
> Saludos desde Tampico, Tamaulipas M?xico
> RompiendoBarreras espacio de psicolog?a/Superaci?n Personal S?bados 10PM M?xico http://radiogeneral.com ?los esperamos!
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> I am going to get starky hearing aids I believe as long as my audiologist
> makes the correct adjustments at my next appointment haha. I've used
> various neckloops for t-coil listening to my iphone, computer, etc., but
> find them to not be very durable. I was looking at starky's website and I
> see something called a surflink mobile, but it looks like a touch screen is
> involved. Does anyone have any experience with it? Anyone have a good
> neck loop to recommend? I may go back to using one I've used before from
> William Sound, at least they are cheaper if they don't last. Any other
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> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 00:20:51 -0700
> From: Scott Davert <scottdavert at gmail.com>
> To: Delcenia Brown <delcenia at prodigy.net>, NFB Deaf-Blind Division
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> Hello Gerardo.
> Regarding what it looks like, if it works for you and is the most functional, I'd say use it. Especically if you do not mind the earbuds. I personally do not use them, but that doesn't mean it won't work for someone else.
> As others have suggested, you may wish to investigate various bluetooth options which will offer a wireless experience directly connected to your hearing aids. What is compatible depends on which model of hearing aids you have. For example, Resound makes one, Phanak makes another, and older hearing aids may not support bluetooth at all. I often just plug headphones in to my iPhone and use it that way, because the connection is wired and I've personally found it's more clear than any of the bluetooth solutions on the market. Some things to be aware of regarding bluetooth connections are that if bluetooth is constantly trunning on both your hearing aids and phone, both will have much less battery life. Also, bluetooth is not perfect and is more prone to issues related to losing the connection between the 2 devices. Also, in my personal experience, there is sometimes a delay with VoiceOver speech when using bluetooth. The delay isn't such a problem for typing a quick text, but becomes one if you rely on speech and need to complete a task more quickly that is more complicated. Also, sometimes the beginning of when VoiceOver starts speaking can get chopped off and many devices will time out after about 20 seconds of no audio. This means that if you want the bluetooth to stay connected while you wait for some audio, it may not do so. On the positive side, bluetooth is wireless, can be configured to switch your hearing aids immediately when you answer a call, and you can have an audiologist set up your hearing aids to allow the bluetooth audio to be the only thing you hear, or you can even have both the external microphones and bluetooth going at the same time. that said, some hearing aids do not support all of the things I've listed, and some devices seem more laggy than others when ussoing them with VoiceOver. I hope this info is somewhat helpful!
>
> Cheers from Las Vegas!
> Scott
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>> On Aug 2, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Delcenia Brown via nfb-db <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Gerardo,
>>
>> I also do not like the earbud. I personally do two different things. First, sometimes I use headphones. Yes, it can be a headache or a little bothersome to place headphones over hearing aids. However, that what I prefer sometimes and I do not care what it looks like. I would wear headphones when I am using my pocket talker which is another type of fm system. secondly, I have an Icon which I believe it is made by Phonics. This is my bluetooth. I wear it around my neck and it is paired with my IPhone and when I have a incoming call I push the button on the front of the ICon to answer the call. It all depends on your preference and your hearing aid. Also, on the bottom of my Icon there is a opening for a two way cord to insert into anywhere headphones go so I can listen to my music or read a book.
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>> Delcenia
>> From: Janice Toothman via nfb-db
>> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 7:17 PM
>> To: Sterling Shadowwolf ; NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Are you listening to music?
>>
>> Hi Gerardo,
>> I agree with Sterling. I use an FM system that connects with my cell phone via Bluetooth and it is great. There are several different major companies that produce FM systems. I did not know that they also made one to interface with a CI, if I understood Sterling. I use Phonak. They call my "necklace" the Compilot. I have never been able to use earbuds since I had my hearing loss.
>> Janicebud.
>>> On 8/2/2014 5:45 PM, Sterling Shadowwolf via nfb-db wrote:
>>> Gerardo,
>>> Personally speaking, I hate the earbuds. Because they draw unwanted attention to your ears and they look kinda odd. I wear both a CI and a digital hearing aid. And I use what's called a RogerLink Pen FM System. This looks like any other FM system and you wear it around your neck like a necklace. The system first needs to be parred to your iPhone via Bluetooth. In my case, the digital hearing aid's T-coil mode comes on automatically. Which means if I get an incoming call and I answer the phone call, the T-coil mode comes on automatically. For my CI, I have to use my remote to switch the mode into T-coil settings. The RogerLink Pen works on both my CI and hearing aid at the same time, which gives me optimum listening performance because I'm listening to the conversation with both ears, plus the background noises/commotion blocked out (isn't today's technology wonderful?). Depending on your hearing aid type or model, I would highly recommend the RogerLink Pen FM System. Talk to your audiologist about this device to determine if this works on your hearing aids. It does work well with the iPhone devices.
>>>
>>> -Sterling
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Corripio via nfb-db <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> HI listers
>>>> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when in the store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason is because as most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a 70% hearing loss; I've got an IPhone, and always have atop my hearing aids the earbuds for the hands free piece, in case I get a call, I only have to press the button on the hands free and away I anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing aid if you understand what I mean because my hearing aids are those that go behind the ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always having these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus appreciate any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have earbuds on, then what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing aids have to offer? What I'm wanting is when I get a call, not waste time getting the phone out of my pocket, have to put the phone up to my hearing aids to hear what the caller id info says etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds on the aids, would be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
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