ollie the otter ~ 🦦 (they/them)

sorry guys my ping is high

i need my representation! /silly

my phones a samsung, in the quick settings i can add a Sound Amplifier toggle, then i just messed with the settings til i could hear people better

edit to clarify, google pixel phones should have it too, idk about other androids

i like this one, very inclusive

cant believe the lemmy platform was so popular that they made it a real animal

i dont like making things‎ political but its so easy to get swept up in the discussion 😅 gotta love being hyperimpulsive

it uses my phone microphone, and amplifies speech from what it ggets there, then sends it to the earphones. it kinda took a lot of fiddling with settings to get it to be able to generally pick out speech, and i have to hold my phone mic up to my friends like an interviewer if its very noisy, but my parents wont get me checked for it and hearing aids are expensive lol

theyre just some lenovo ones that clip around the back of my ear, got em for a fiver on aliexpress lol, not the highest quality but they have a low delay mode which is good for this

well, technically i dont use hearing aids, but really theyre discreet bluetooth earphones that connect to my phone and ive set it so when they connect, the android Sound Amplifier app starts, and amplifies speech but not background noise. its a little awkward but it helps :3

APD mentioned 🔥(i need hearing aids)