I can’t understand people very well on the telephone; they are too soft or they sound like they are mumbling.  Is there something to help me?

You have several potential options allowing easier and clearer hearing on the telephone as well.  As always, the first thing to do is make sure that your hearing has been tested recently.  Like ‘Loud TV’, you may benefit from hearing aids or a change in your hearing aid programming.   By providing individualized increases in volume where you need it most hearing aids can make understanding on the telephone easier.  Additionally, most hearing aids now have specialized automatic programs designed especially to help with telephone use.

You could also use an amplified telephone.  An amplified telephone is much like a standard phone but it allows the handset to generate much higher volume and/or it has a much louder speaker phone feature.   Both of these features help to enhance speech understanding.  This kind of phone can be obtained from a specialized state program through your audiologist.  If you have documentable hearing loss you qualify.

Just like ‘Loud TV’ you also can benefit from the ComPilot, MiniTek, or StreamerPro. The telephone signal will flow from your telephone or your cellular phone directly to your hearing aids without any wires, allowing you to understand conversation easier.