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One last thing, as a suggested quality of life improvement for a chronic hard of hearing in US or Canada, one can make phone calls with confidence by using a Federal-sanctioned relay operator.

CaptionCall app will let you converse using your own voice with the caller and type back what they are saying. I find that to be an excellent tool in the last bridge of divide between HoH and hearing world. Use it all the time to interact with DMV, doctors’ appt desk, and voice mail systems.

Even with my now superhearing, this tool is actually less stressful than trying to decipher their voice myself. Kinda like a messaging app but with voice one way and text and voice stream the other way.