Best hearing correction app so far – hearing help Review

After looking at 10 hearing aid applications, I have downloaded and tried 4 different applications for trial. This application, Hearing Help was the best application that I found. This software is significantly better than any of the other available appliications because it provides a 16 band gain correction based on the your own personal hearing problems. This software accomplishes this by providing a place for the user to enter his/her left and right audiogram into the software. The software then makes a gain (sound loudness) correction to bring the user's hearing for each of 16 frequency bands. The user can then "sweeten" or enhance the listening experience by using a 16 band graphic equilizer to optimize the output sound for voice, noise avoidance, and/or for compensating for the deficiencies of the user's headset. The program requires the user to supply a wired headset or earbuds. Blue tooth based listening devices are not supported because they have too much latency (time delay) and that would defeat the purpose of the software. Pros: - Genuine hearing correction for left and right ears based on the user's personal audiogram (16 band) - 16 band audio equilizer tuning for left and right ears for sweetening the audio output. - A very nice user adjustable compression audio range adjustment for left and right ears. These adjustments allow the user to compensate for hearing loss by funneling the sound input into the audible range still available to the user. - A user adjustable noise filter for reducing any noise produced by the user's hardware in quiet rooms. - User ability to store and recall personal adjustment profiles Cons - This was the most technical of the softwares that I reviewed. This is not really a problem for me but it does require the user to enter a lot of information and it requires some study and technical expertise or help from an audiologist. - Blue tooth is not supported. This is not really a problem, blue tooth technology is presently not adequate for providing accurate sound reproduction without large time delay. There is one hearing aid application that does support blue tooth listening devices but the author of that software does not recommend the use of blue tooth. - Monophonic output. This software does not yet support a stereo output. Although it does allow a user to create a correction for his/her specific audiogram the output is monophonic and the sound output does not provide distance or direction cues. Of the other 9 application I reviewed only one of them provides a stereo output and that application only provides compression and gain enhancement without providing a correction for hearing loss. This software is worth many times more than the current asking price. My iPhone based hearing aid, using this software works better than the $500/each hearing aid that I purchased from my audiologist
Review by Turbine Engineer on hearing help.