Looking for best hearing aide compatable telephone headset

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Hello every one! I need some advice. I am on the telephone 8+ hours a day speaking to engineers from all over. It's important I get the details down as quickly as possible. Only problem is I wear hearing aides in both ears. I have over 40% loss in each ear last I checked.

I have the Phonak Naida hearing aides. I place the headsets the company supplies us at work righ on my hearing aides. I use the auto-phone mode which is Tcoil+mike. This setting works ok for most calls I get however some times the engineers call from noisy factories and or they have thick accents.

I was wondering if any one here work on phones for most of day with 40+ hearing loss, wearing hearing aides and what they do at work to improve conditions.

Is there a better telephone headset I can use?

What hearing aide settings do you use?

I love my job, but really feel terrible when I have to keep asking some callers to repeat what they said.
 
If the phone has a 2.5 mm plug as most cellphone has you can get a bi-annal hatis.

HATIS® Corporation

This is 5+ years ago. Now there are several t-coil models out there - probably cheaper.
Also, there is a (are) "converter" from 3.5mm to 2.5 mm - CapTel folks would know.

Sheng-Chieh
 
shengchieh said:
If the phone has a 2.5 mm plug as most cellphone has you can get a bi-annal hatis.

HATIS® Corporation

This is 5+ years ago. Now there are several t-coil models out there - probably cheaper.
Also, there is a (are) "converter" from 3.5mm to 2.5 mm - CapTel folks would know.

Sheng-Chieh
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This is for work, desk phone with headsets and mike. Professional headsets for work. Thx!
 
IndieVisible said:
This is for work, desk phone with headsets and mike. Professional headsets for work. Thx!
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I use a combination FM transmitter/receiver/bluetooth combo (Smartlink SX and Phonak ML10i receivers) to have a good connection. The bad news with using FM is the expense involved....here's some links:

http://www.phonak.com/consumer/products/fm/smartlink.htm

http://www.phonak.com/consumer/products/fm/receivers_new.htm

http://www.jabra.com/Sites/Jabra/NA-US/Headsets/Pages/JabraA7010BluetoothHub.aspx
 
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what about bluetooth ear headsets? does any work with hearing aids ? The only thing i can think of is how uncomfortable it might be.
 
I'm sure if you have a in-the-ear aid, there will be some bluetooth earsets that will work (without the in the ear mold), but since I have a BTE aid, I have no use for this. The best thing for me was the FM/bluetooth device....but that costs a pretty penny.....$1500-2000 for both transmitter and receiver. Having a Phonak iCom or equivalent to match your aid would be cheaper.
 
I have BTE Phonak Naida, work set up is a cheap plantronics amplifier with dual/mike headset, terrible! There must be some thing better with out too much money?
 
I've heard of people using DAI boots with a DAI cord adapter that could work....will have to look at my bookmarks and see if I can find the link.....
 
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