Description of App
Take control of your hearing experience with My Starkey. Create custom settings. Get personalized tips. Track health goals. Control volume and more. My
Starkey puts you in charge of your hearing journey and overall wellness. All at your fingertips.
Created with the help of hearing aid wearers, this easy-to-use app allows you to:
HEAR BETTER ANYWHERE.
Make instant adjustments for clearer speech and reduced noise – even in the toughest listening environments. Plus, customize sound settings for your favorite
places. Equalizer and volume? You control them. With My Starkey, your hearing aids are just the way you need them. At all times.
GET TIPS, TOOLS AND RESOURCES.
Adapt to hearing aids faster with quick how-to's, tips, and videos. All tailored for where you are on your hearing journey. Access remote hearing aid adjustments
from your hearing care professional – right from your armchair. Lose a hearing aid? Use My Starkey to track the location and simplify your life.
MONITOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
Monitor daily hearing and physical activity to help you stay healthy. Set and achieve goals for hearing, steps, exercise, and beyond. Get personal and
detailed insights into your activity levels. My Starkey can even detect your falls and notify the people you choose – keeping you safe while active.
And much more.
It’s never been easier to take control of your hearing journey. And live your best life – with My Starkey.
Comments
So much money, so little care
First, thank you Travis for writing out your experience! I have sent this page to a friend who is both a VoiceOver user and a Starkey HA owner.
Isn't it sad that you can pay several thousand dollars for a set of hearing aids which you have to be very tech savvy to jump through the accessibility hoops that they clearly don't care have to be jumped through? Yeah, I know, capitalism and all that, but the end message they are very clearly sending blind consumers is that they are ok discriminating against us. We're not worthy of an equal customer experience that their sighted customers get. Shouldn't they give us a discount since they are cutting off some features for blind users? This is not simply a question for Starkey, it's a general sentiment I feel toward all of the companies other than Phonak. They have sent the message that they do care about their blind hearing aid wearers just as much as those who are sighted. PR in these companies is clearly in the toilet.
Again, thank you very much for sharing all of the info that you have. I have no doubt VO users of their product will benefit!
Reply to Scott
Hi Scott, I feel your pain! I am most disappointed that the equalizers are not accessible, given the other things that these hearing aids do I feel that possibly has some potential. But alas.
I should mention that the My Starkey app also has remote telecare where the audiologist can do programming remotely. I didn't review this as I've not had occasion to use it with my audiologist yet. I can say the initial setup process to establish a link to the audiologist which involves entering a code your given from the audiologist is accessible enough to do. Beyond that though I'm not sure. If anyone tries it before I do I hope they can post here.
Another answer to Scott
I agree with you 100%. I have a similar experience with the app aimed at supporting hearing aids made by Oticon. I have asked my audiologist to bring this up with the manufacturer (he knows my needs very well and has been a staunch advocate for clients with similar issues), and I also called Oticon myself repeatedly to say that they need to make their hardware and software more readily accessible for blind hearin-impaired users. I got a polite "Yes, thank you, we will work on it." And what has happened? Nothing. Very disappointing. -- Please pardon me for griping, which is neither productive nor helpful.