How To Communicate in Noisy Place

Jiro said:
exactly my point. I want to know how is that possible. do hearing people change the way they talk beside talking louder?
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No.
 
Jiro said:
I'm more concerned with how to talk in a noisy environment rather than how to listen since I lip-read.

Talking loud doesn't help much.
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I when to a fundraiser party for a candidate , it was at a person house and I had a very hard time trying to talk to people. All I could hear was a lot people talking at once and it sounded like bugs buzzing around the room. I was puzzle to how hearing people could have a conversation in all the racket . I tried to find spot where there was less people to talk a person but that did not help. That was my first and last time I when a fundraiser party for a candidate .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I when to a fundraiser party for a candidate , it was at a person house and I had a very hard time trying to talk to people. All I could hear was a lot people talking at once and it sounded like bugs buzzing around the room. I was puzzle to how hearing people could have a conversation in all the racket . I tried to find spot where there was less people to talk a person but that did not help. That was my first and last time I when a fundraiser party for a candidate .
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I call that sound chatter monkeys :lol:
 
I tend to not speak loud enough in noisy places as I can never hear the noise. (I'm also curious about talking too loud as sometimes I shout and don't even realise it)

My Dad has always said I can 'hear' better then him in noisy places and he's hearing. All down to lipreading.
 
That is what I was wondering whats in the world of audism? Lately, I tried to point out what I am seeing already. Guess it falls on Deaf ears until you mentioned this. This is exact what I am talking about.

When it comes to visual, those that can see no problem will be able to focus on one thing and ignore the rest you know, I think about the same thing but I don't know what it is like in the soundwave.

Same idea, if one can smell just like majority of able noses, how can we explain to those who born can't smell what it is like? Same with taste.

Jiro, the truth is, we the Deaf people who were born Deaf will never understand this, nor able to figure out... Due to lack of experience with the audism environment. Problem is, Hearing people are used to be audism will never understand what it is like to be Deaf. Its either silence or unable to filter or recognize the sounds.

Jiro said:
This issue has been baffling me for years. I don't know how hearies communicate with each other in a noisy place with ease (I don't mean like rock concert noisy... just general noisy place like party, restaurant, stadium, etc).

Most of time, people have hard time understanding what I'm trying to say in a noisy environment. I raise my voice louder and sometimes it helps... sometimes not... sometimes it got awkward when it got to the point where I was "speaking louder" than the noise level.

I've only been trained to communicate in a nice quiet room. so how do you people do it? any tips???
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Don't tell me to get hearing aid or CI! I will NEVER understand no matter if I got aided or not.
 
RisinDragon said:
I wonder about this myself.

But I heard new things on this forum about 'comfort in noise' and things like that. This is new to me. Would it work in such a situation like this? After reading what a few are saying about this 'comfort in noise', some seems to have a 20 second delay before they can hear anything again and miss out on 20 second convo. A lot can be said in that time period.

Right now I have 3 settings on my HAs. Off, T-coil (I use this when using phones) and microphone. this basically let's me hear everything around me. So any noises in loud places, they all come into my ears, no way to filter it out. At least for me.
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However, there is a difference between the Comfort in Noise setting and the Speech in noise setting. The speech in noise turns down the background noise and focuses on the speech ranges, whereas in my opinion comfort in noise turns everything down. I would probably use comfort in noise at a concert, since there's not a whole lot of conversation, and then either speech in noise or StereoZoom (focuses on sound coming directly in front of hearing aids) in, say, a restaurant. I'm still trying to play around with the different settings to try to figure out which ones work best when;)
 
its easy, we have BFL...its a unique language that are shared and known by all...

Bird Flipping language.!!
 
Basically your brain filters out more of the background noise and you talk louder. HA's are WAY worse than normal hearing in loud noises. They amplify everything where as your brain filters out a lot of noise.
 
mev426 said:
However, there is a difference between the Comfort in Noise setting and the Speech in noise setting. The speech in noise turns down the background noise and focuses on the speech ranges, whereas in my opinion comfort in noise turns everything down. I would probably use comfort in noise at a concert, since there's not a whole lot of conversation, and then either speech in noise or StereoZoom (focuses on sound coming directly in front of hearing aids) in, say, a restaurant. I'm still trying to play around with the different settings to try to figure out which ones work best when;)
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I actually have a setting for conversation in a noisy environment. I haven't tried it yet.
 
Jiro said:
I actually have a setting for conversation in a noisy environment. I haven't tried it yet.
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I had that on my old aids..it sort of works. It muffles background noise by turning off the back microphones. It helps if you can be seated with your back to most of the noise but not so much if you are parallel or facing the noise.

The automatic adjustment on my Q's helps zero in on people that are talking at the table I'm at but it doesn't really quiet down the surrounding noise. Even with that it's a little better than my old aids. What is really hard is that you still hear all the dishes clanking, chairs rubbing on the floors, etc. I never heard any of that before I lost my hearing--it's just a background buzz when you have good hearing. With the settings on the aids they are programmed to tune into the louder sounds so if someone is stacking dishes, you hear that vs the person you are talking to.
 
Why don't they use paper and pen? The hearing people who are rock concert goers or party goers can loose their hearing in loud noises. It is better to use paper and pen for that occasion. :roll:
 
Bebonang said:
Why don't they use paper and pen? The hearing people who are rock concert goers or party goers can loose their hearing in loud noises. It is better to use paper and pen for that occasion. :roll:
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lol I'm not talking about "rock concert" loud. just "normal loud" like at restaurant, company party, bar, etc.
 
HOH-ME said:
Basically your brain filters out more of the background noise and you talk louder. HA's are WAY worse than normal hearing in loud noises. They amplify everything where as your brain filters out a lot of noise.
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I was once told there was a HA that was able to filters out background noises , I have never seen one. It would be great if this was true.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I was once told there was a HA that was able to filters out background noises , I have never seen one. It would be great if this was true.
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It's called a digital hearing aid.
They don't always work, the technology is nowhere close to perfection.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
I was once told there was a HA that was able to filters out background noises , I have never seen one. It would be great if this was true.
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"filtering" is a gross overstatement of what hearing aids do to background noise :D. It turns it down, some, if you have the right kind but since they are really programmed to pick up the loudest sounds, the technology has a LONG way to go. As a late deafened person, it's significantly easier to hear in loud places, and understand those around you with normal hearing than it is with hearing aids, by a LONG shot.
 
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