Organization
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
Hearing Profile
Hard-of-hearing
Location
San Francisco, California
Ann is hard-of-hearing and has been a long-time Ava user.
I've used Ava through different levels of my hearing loss journey. During the pandemic, I ended up getting two very successful cochlear implants so my hearing has improved, but I will always be a hard-of-hearing individual because I never will know when I will understand others and when I won't, so I always have to be prepared. This is when Ava is most helpful now.
I use Ava when I need some help understanding all that a person is saying. Since I never know when I will understand someone or not, I always have Ava ready for quick access.
Ava is still the most robust of all the speech-to-text apps and it's still the only one that allows you to maintain social distancing because you can connect more than one person to the conversation.