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Subject : Forget Your Hearing Aids posted by natesthethree on Sat Sep 4, 2010 10:53 pm |
| Speech audio consists of two languages and hearing aids treat them as one. The results are shown in the zillions of complaints about hearing aids. Like "I hear you but I can't understand you". And it won't change until the hearing-aid industry learns to treat the two languages separately. The overall idea is that vowels provide 99 percent of the sound level while the consonants are tiny little feeble (characteristic) noises. As we get deaf mostly from the aging process, these little fellows gradually disappear from us HOH types. The aid manufacturers and the rest of the world must begin understanding that they are dealing with two sound systems. They must learn how to amplify mainly the consonants. You perceptive souls might want to learn more about the two separate languages. And I will tell you. One is a language of our ancestors, going back a few million years. It has been a very powerful and effective life preservation tool, not only for paleolithic type man or ape-man but for every single animal on the face of the earth right up to modern day, and including modern man. We call it vowels. What the other animals call it, I have no idea. Now for the second and newer language. New, for it existed a mere 40000- 50000 years New compared to the several million years of the first language. Give credit to some prehistoric genius female who figured out that by adding specific noises to the existent language, you could provide a greater description of things and events. (Why do I say a woman? When her baby was born it immediately cried-language number one coming from the vocal chords. Cave woman looks at this crying new-born and wonders what is wrong. She stares and notices a sucking sound coming out, and she understood the babe needed nourishment. When the crying sound and the sucking sound are combined it creates the first interpreted word which we label "mama". Now she didn't stop there she had to tell her female friends of this great discovery. Hence speech evolved rapidly. What was cave man doing while this great discovery was going on? He was out hunting saber tooth tigers. And he knew from experience that any noise he made might cost the tiger or his life. He learned to be silent. See why the sexes have problems in communicating. Since language number one already took up almost all the sound making capability by using the vocal chords, that prehistoric female genius used her lips, mouth, and tongue in order to provide the second language. Today there are some among us who can read this mouth action with no sounds emanating from the vocal chords. These individuals are called lip-readers. At this point if our paleolithic ancestors were to observe modern mankind trying to fix the hearing problem by treating speech as a single language he would say "how dumb can you moderns be". "Don't you guys know that understanding comes from switching between the two languages, not from cranking up the volume level on both languages. If you can't hear both sounds, then you cannot understand what is being said. " Don't blame your poor aging ears when you can't hear the consonants. Make the builders amplify the d*** consonants. Forget the vowels, they are already too loud. |
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