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Hear better tomorrow with the Elehear Beyond AI-Powered OTC Hearing Aid
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May 29, 2025
If you have mild to moderate hearing loss and want to avoid paying thousands for a hearing aid, you'll want to learn all about the sleek and oh-so-modern ELEHEAR Beyond AI-Powered OTC Hearing Aid. Featuring smart circuitry to squash feedback whistle and a Tinnitus masking environmental sound mode, it pairs with an app on your smartphone and is incredibly flexible. It's also discrete, as tech expert Dave Taylor shows and demonstrates in this detailed review and product walk-thru video. Check it out at: https://bit.ly/3Yffjtb. 0:00 Intro & Overview 3:38 What's in the Box 4:44 How to Wear 5:48 ELEHEAR App Demo 8:10 Get Used to Your Hearing Aid 9:20 Tinnitus Nature Sounds 12:00 Thoughts and Assessment Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #elehear #hearingaids #hearing #askdavetaylor
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an AI powered over-the-counter hearing
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aid let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and we live in an
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increasingly noisy World which means
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that people are having hearing loss at
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earlier and earlier Ages which is pretty
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alarming so you can end up just not
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noticing which is what many people do
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and you're just like I'm sorry excuse me
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or I can't hear you or it's really loud
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in here can you speak up please those
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are all signs that you might have some
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hearing loss now there's a spectrum of
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hearing loss but if you're in the mild
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to moderate category then these devices
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can be game changers for you this let me
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open this up and show you this is the
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elah here Beyond AI OTC hearing aid so
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it is from mild to moderate hearing loss
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and as you can see it is a fairly
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typicall looking hearing aid but it's
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got a lot of smarts and it works via
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Bluetooth with your smart device so you
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have tons of settings you can listen to
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music you can use this to make sure you
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can hear phone calls you can even use it
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with your TV I'll explain that in just a
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minute but I'm going to start by telling
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you this has something called vo clear
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AI noise reduction so it gets rid of all
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that feedback whistle and if you've ever
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Tred to hearing aid you know that
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sometimes for what seem to be completely
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random reasons it just whistles and it's
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just really annoying so they get rid of
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all that with their AI algorithms it's
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actually a DNN hybrid algorithm that
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gets rid of that noise and it does
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feedback cancellation one of the other
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cool things they have with this is it
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also can do ttis masking so if you hear
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that sort of whistle or like a sound
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sound or just a high pitch frequency or
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something this can actually help you
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manage that and it uses it by giving you
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natural sound Alternatives so your brain
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can rest and you can calm down a little
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bit it's really an unpleasant experience
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so 37 D gain I will say when you put
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these in it's like all the high
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frequencies suddenly get much more
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present so if you've been missing out on
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a lot of people's conversations for
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example all of a sudden that shows up
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and it's really remarkable it's a very
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different experience if you're having
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some hearing loss um it has four modes
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restaurant TV outdoor in general
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Bluetooth streaming the batteries it's
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pretty remarkable this by itself can run
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for 20 hours and then you put it in the
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case and that gives you four more
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charges so it is a pretty hefty case
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compared to like apple airpods or
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something but that gives you four more
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charges which gives you the ability to
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use these for a 100 hours so fully
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charge these and you can be on a cruise
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and you can use these for an entire week
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without having to charge them again so
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that's pretty cool now you might have
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caught the elah alpha Pro which I've
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also reviewed and one of the big
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differences here is that this has a
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smaller
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case so it also has improved circuitry
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they've Rewritten the app and everything
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um ipx5 sweat resistant uh so there's
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lots of cool stuff but I'm going to show
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you the app in just a second um let me
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just show you in the Box you get a USBC
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to usba charging cable you get various
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tools to maintain them and to get ear
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wax off it happens and a user manual
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that gives you lots of details and a
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quick start guide if you don't want to
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have all the details and you want to
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just jump in and then in a little bag in
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a little box in the big box is let me
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just sort of show you this there's a
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whole lot of different ear tips that
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it's included and this gives you the
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ability to really fine-tune what's going
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to work best for you you can see here
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there's a lot of choices from the
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smallest and most minimal to ones that
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cover most of your ear canal and I
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highly recommend that you experiment
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with different ones to see which gives
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you the best result and they also Ella
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here has an audiologist you can consult
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with through their website if you need a
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little bit of extra help to sort of dial
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in the one that's going to work best for
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you but let's see I'm going to put these
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on and then I'm going to show you the
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app so I'm still getting the hang of how
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to put them on but basically put the
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piece behind your ear and then Loop it
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around and then just push it gently into
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your ear canal and as you can see in
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this closeup it's really hard to see
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that I have this on so there's that
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modesty piece too which I know is
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important to a lot of people but just
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doing this it's already paired with my
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phone and turned on so now I'm hearing
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my voice in a very different way now let
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me put the other one
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on
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and let's see it just goes in there and
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we're good and it has voice prompt so I
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get power on connected and now they're
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both working so now I have a much much
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more overt higher frequencies but let's
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get to their app cuz their app has a lot
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of cool tricks so let's see and here it
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is now I haven't actually paired these
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with the app all I've done is I've
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paired them via Bluetooth Bluetooth with
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my phone and that was enough that I
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could listen to music and stuff but now
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let's see what happens I'm going to so
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these are the Beyond connecting
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congratulations and we can go through
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the tutorial really quick so it shows
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you how to put them
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on it shows you how to control them
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directly from the unit
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itself and lower the volume and pause
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Bluetooth scaming and I'm going through
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this quickly obviously you would go
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through this more slowly so you could
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understand what's going on but here we
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go so now I can adjust things like let's
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see what mode we're in and so I'm in
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general mode and I can change it to a
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noisy
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environment and so now I can hear
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there's a significant difference so I'm
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getting a lot less brightness in my
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audio um and I can add additional modes
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if I want this one's actually very
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pleasant it's also lowered the gain on
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both ears and having left and right ear
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options is really important because many
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people have better hearing in one ear
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than the other so let's say my right ear
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is needing a little more help than my
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left ear so I could do
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this and now I can now it's interesting
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because I actually have pretty balanced
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hearing so now I get less emphasis on
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this side than this side which is what
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you would expect one cool thing I can
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mute it and by muting it I can go back
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to a very silent world and now it's just
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my regular hearing so this is a nice way
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if you're reading a book or you're
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studying or you just need to take a
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break from everything going on around
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you one of the most important things you
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can do with the app is check for a
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firmware update so if you choose that um
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three lines on the top left and then
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choose my device you can see it has the
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current firmware version if there's a
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new version it'll tell you it takes
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about 5 minutes to do the update I just
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did that that's why I had to jump off
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camera for a second um but it also
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tracks how much time you've used these
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and that's really important because you
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want to get used to them so in the first
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week you want to wear them for a couple
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hours each day and then the second week
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give yourself a little more time don't
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immediately wear them for long periods
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cuz it's a lot for your brain to process
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it's getting used to having the full
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audio Spectrum again so it's a very
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different experience and it will
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highlight that you can adjust left and
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right so you can have the hearing on
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each ear is different um and speech
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enhancement this is absolutely a
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GameChanger notice I have my speech
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Focus to the front so if I'm in an
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environment with a lot of people it's
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the person I'm facing that the system
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will actually be focusing on trying to
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give me the best audio from them I can
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switch to 360 and now even if someone's
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behind me I'm going to hear what they're
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saying more clearly I kind of like front
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that's kind of how we work as human
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beings and then there's some other stuff
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you can do with phone call boosting and
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such but let's check out the ttis and
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this is really interesting because it
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gives you very quietly in the background
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environmental noise so if you're used to
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having a hum or a whistle or uh you know
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wine or something because you have just
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that sound that your brain is producing
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thinking it's coming from your ears well
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now I have very subtly I have rain in
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the background and where this gets
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really interesting is you can actually
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mix things up so I can say I would like
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to have rain and waterfall and so notice
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near the bottom that it shows the two
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and it's showing me what I have set up
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so there's a lot of different sounds and
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you can use of course things like just
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white noise or pink and blue and brown
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noise did you know they had all those
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colors so that's pretty fun I'm going to
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turn that off by just pausing it then
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let's go to home and the home at this
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point there's not a lot of reason to go
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to the home screen other than there are
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two really cool features here one of
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which is translation so you have to set
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this up I'm not going to do that right
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now but you can actually use these
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because they're AI powered I can
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actually have them translate a different
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language that someone might be speaking
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to me and it is a pretty wild effect um
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it's something you're going to want to
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practice before you're in a remote
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situation and that's the only way you
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can communicate but it's fascinating
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that they include that the other really
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cool feature is is remote sound capture
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and the idea of this is it changes all
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of the setup so now what I'm hearing is
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the pickup from my phone how is that
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useful well I can put that by the
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television I can put that near the
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podium when someone's speaking or making
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a
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presentation and it's a little
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disconcerting because then I'm not
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getting the benefit of the hearing aid
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locally but it's like having a really
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long microphone on a cord plugged into
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your brain and that's pretty cool so
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there is a tiny lag so I'm going to turn
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that off so there is a tiny lag and
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that's worth knowing about but those are
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pretty much the primary controls I'm
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just going to go in here and I'm going
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to go into
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General and I can he it's brighter and
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that's okay so all of those features
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super super helpful now let me put these
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aside and let's talk about this just a
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little more so I'm going to take these
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out of my
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ears because I want to give you a chance
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to actually see up close what they look
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like and they are very subtle but notice
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on the top there are some buttons that
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help you control them so if you tilt
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that rocker button up it does volume up
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if you tilt it down it does volume down
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and if you hold volume up for 3 seconds
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it will actually turn it off and it's
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pretty easy to do right behind your ear
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so if you need to you can turn them off
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and then turn them back on in a
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situation where it's actually you know
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important that you're able to hear on
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the inner curve are actually some
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sensors and they are working with let me
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put it on the correct side um they work
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with the case so when I put it in the
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case those little LEDs light up and it's
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charging that's literally all I have to
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do so I'm going to put this one in and
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so now both of them are charging and
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that's all there is to it so that's
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everything that you really want to know
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it's really really an extraordinary
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experience if you're having your hearing
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just losing a little bit each year you
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probably don't even notice you know I'm
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pretty sure I have good hearing but
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obviously I put these in and it's like
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oh I can hear more which suggests to me
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maybe I don't have perfect Hearing in
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both ears and that's a function of age
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it's not something that's a huge issue
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yet but I certainly notice that when I'm
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in a crowded environment and people are
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talking to me and I can't hear them over
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all the background noise so these change
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that experience and they change it in a
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way that no one really can see it and
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someone's like inspecting my ear they
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might notice it but who the heck's going
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to do that that' be really peculiar
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right so they are eligible for HSA or
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FSA pay they are FDA certified they have
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a 45-day risk-free trial so really
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there's so much to like here there's so
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much worth checking out now we do need
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to talk price before we get there I'm
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going to invite you to subscribe to my
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found this of value excellent thank you
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now these are the elere Beyond AI OTC
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hearing aid and by the way OTC is over
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the counter in case you were wondering
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so la here Beyond they are 399 at
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ler.com they are definitely worth
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checking out if you're having some
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issues with your hearing these are
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really really good options and they are
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dramatically less expensive than old
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school formal fancy hearing aids that
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you get from an audiologist so again
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mild to moderate hearing loss only if
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you have serious issues you need an
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audiologist you need to work with your
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doctor that's what they're there for but
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if you're just thinking you know my left
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ear is having a little bit of problem
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something like this can change that
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experience for you
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entirely hope that was really helpful
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and I'll hope to catch you in my next
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video
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