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Hope Lanter explains why your voice sounds strange when you first wear hearing aids: you're hearing parts of it you'd lost to hearing loss, and it differs from recordings. Reading aloud helps you adjust to how you actually sound.
Hope Lanter explains why your voice sounds strange when you first wear hearing aids: you're hearing parts of it you'd lost to hearing loss, and it differs from recordings. Reading aloud helps you adjust to how you actually sound.
One other thing that I hear often about why can I not get used to a hearing aid is, "My voice sounds funny." How many times have you heard yourself on a recording and think, "Do I really sound that way? Is that what I sound like?" And then basically some of that is the fact that you're hearing a recording is a little bit different of your voice, but also when you have hearing loss you're not hearing parts of your voice that you're not hearing in the rest of the world. And fortunately, the good news is that your voice is the one that you're gonna get used to the quickest. Your your voice will sound better. If you have trouble getting used to the sound of your own voice, read out loud. Grab a magazine, book, whatever. Read out loud. Hear yourself. See those words as you're saying them. You'll start to get used to the sound and what sound it's supposed to be.
