The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

> Chris wrote:
>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> John Doe wrote:
>>>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know of an app that will take a person's
>>>>> voice and translate it to a lower pitch for
>>>>> us guys losing our high frequency hearing?
>>>>
>>>> "Take a person's voice" from where? From what input device?
>>>>
>>>> Slow down and explain what you're talking about.

>>> I can't hear high pitched, usually females, voices
>>> on the phone. My hearing takes a dive at 2,100 Hz.
>>>
>>> I want an app that will take a high pitched voice and
>>> lower it into my hearing range.
>>
>> You need a hearing aid not an app. Bonus is it'll work everywhere ;)
>
> My mom got expensive Sonus in-ear hearing aids in ~2004 for exactly that
> reason. She had them adjusted many times, but in order to hear female
> voices clearly there was a lot of hiss and unwanted sounds (crackling
> paper, etc.) that were likewise amplified. She never wore them.

The idea is to reduce the frequency, not to amplify it. That might be done
by reducing ALL frequencies and cutting the lowest frequencies. Something
that can be easily toggled on/off.

Might be a little creepy, but oh well.

Actually sounds like a good application for a smartphone. As mentioned,
should be easy as a voice changer device.

T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 8/25/21 1:32 AM, Chris wrote:
>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 8/24/21 8:45 PM, John Doe wrote:
>>>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know of an app that will take a person's
>>>>> voice and translate it to a lower pitch for
>>>>> us guys losing our high frequency hearing?
>>>>
>>>> "Take a person's voice" from where? From what input device?
>>>>
>>>> Slow down and explain what you're talking about.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't hear high pitched, usually females, voices
>>> on the phone. My hearing takes a dive at 2,100 Hz.
>>>
>>> I want an app that will take a high pitched voice and
>>> lower it into my hearing range.
>>
>> You need a hearing aid not an app. Bonus is it'll work everywhere ;)
>>
>
>
> I only have trouble over the phone. I am fine in person.
> Also, I am too poor to afford a hearing aid. They
> are way, way to expensive.

You need a proper health service. Oh wait...

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2021 01:32 AM, Chris wrote:
>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 8/24/21 8:45 PM, John Doe wrote:
>>>> T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know of an app that will take a person's
>>>>> voice and translate it to a lower pitch for
>>>>> us guys losing our high frequency hearing?
>>>>
>>>> "Take a person's voice" from where? From what input device?
>>>>
>>>> Slow down and explain what you're talking about.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't hear high pitched, usually females, voices
>>> on the phone. My hearing takes a dive at 2,100 Hz.
>>>
>>> I want an app that will take a high pitched voice and
>>> lower it into my hearing range.
>>
>> You need a hearing aid not an app. Bonus is it'll work everywhere ;)
>
> My mom got expensive Sonus in-ear hearing aids in ~2004 for exactly that
> reason. She had them adjusted many times, but in order to hear female
> voices clearly there was a lot of hiss and unwanted sounds (crackling
> paper, etc.) that were likewise amplified. She never wore them.

My dad wore his, but he did need to go back a few times to get the tuning
right.

> I'm in the same boat now. Maybe I'll try them, but I have no
> expectation of success. Perhaps new ones will be better. They'd have
> to be better than just cupping my hands around my ears, which works fine
> for voices but also allows me to hear the noisy little fan in the
> Raspberry Pi roughly a foot behind my monitor :-(
>
> I wonder why nobody makes cheap plastic things like costume Spock ears.
> Or Ferengi ears... Nope, nothing on ebay.

In the old days people used ear trumpets.

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> On 25/08/2021 19.47, sms wrote:
>> On 8/24/2021 6:48 PM, T wrote:
>>> Anyone know of an app that will take a person's
>>> voice and translate it to a lower pitch for
>>> us guys losing our high frequency hearing?
>>
>> Someone did demo such an app years ago, but apparently it never actually
>> became available <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDtXDQ683rw>.
>>
>> There's a research paper on this, and apparently they created an Android
>> app, but there were issues with latency, see
>> <http://riogrande.cs.tcu.edu/1516Ribbit/resources/iSoundConferencePaper.pdf>.
>>
>
> Singers use tools like that all the time, but those I have seen (and not
> in person) are not realtime, and run on computers, for postproduction of
> the recording. Search "perfect pitch" perhaps.

It's called "auto-tune" and can be done real time. Most pop music uses it
and many overuse it to get a kind of mechanical sound. One More Time by
Daft Punk is a classic example.

On 8/24/21 6:48 PM, T wrote:
> Anyone know of an app that will take a person's
> voice and translate it to a lower pitch for
> us guys losing our high frequency hearing?

This looks interesting:

https://petralex.pro/en