[FREE] [APP] Hearing Aid Ear Booster: Microphone Amplifier

[KaloyanBeshev]

Android: Google Play

A hearing aid Android app which acts as a microphone amplifier. It boosts the sound that your device's mic picks up and amplifies the noise or speech to help people who have trouble hearing what others are saying in a conversation.

This app will help you enhance your hearing and understand conversations better. It works like a hearing aid for everyone.

*NOTE - this app requires headphones. The sound, which the microphone picks up is amplified trough the headphones. If no headphones are present the app will play the voices or other sounds via the device's ear speaker.

Features:

- Volume control - it controls the volume within the app.
- Equalizer(EQ) - it helps the user filter out unwanted noises.
- Settings - settings menu.
- Waveform sound visualizer.

- Keep screen on - keeps the screen on while the app is running.
- Run in the background - the app continues to work even if minimized. If it is closed it will stop.
- Theme - choose a different theme, depending on your preferences.

How to use the hearing app:

1. Plug your earphones to your device and put them in your ears.
2. Start the hearing aid app.
3. Click the icon in the center. The sound waves will visualize via the waveform visualizer.
4. Adjust the equalizer so that you filter out unwanted sounds.

 

[coffee-turtle]

Interesting, but how is that better than this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.accessibility.soundamplifier

Google's Sound Amplifier app has no ads, unlike the one referenced here.

 

[Rukbat]

Google's doesn't have a discrete equalizer, which is important to someone with hearing loss. But it does have noise reduction, which is also important. (And neither has speech-to-text, which is also important.)