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Personal Speaking Amplifier

03/21/2011 10:55 PM

My voice box was recently compromised by neck surgery and I need to find a small portable device which i can speak into to amplify my voice so that I can be easily heard in public settings. Any recommendations?

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Re: Personal Speaking Amplifier

03/21/2011 11:49 PM

A "throat mike" might be just the ticket....

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Re: Personal Speaking Amplifier

03/21/2011 11:53 PM

Hello, what about one of the personal hearing stereo amps that use a mini phone jack that go to ear/head phones. Instead of the ear/head phones a mini speakers for an ipod or mp3 player. Some also have an amp in them. If you want to put something together.

Now here a system.

and another version a little cheaper.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Personal Speaking Amplifier

03/22/2011 8:33 AM

thanks for the suggestion of the Califone system....it looks like what i need and it is not too expensive! Hali

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03/22/2011 7:38 AM

Well, i guess you must go try to find it out the one Stephen Hawking used. It sounds really weird and strange though.

NeoSpeech's VoiceText speech synthesizer

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Re: Personal Speaking Amplifier

03/23/2011 12:02 AM

I too suffered the same problems from radiation treatment for throat cancer. Being a avid talker on the ham radio left me irritated that people could not make out what I was trying to say. I cranked up the mike volume, but that made things worse. Being a disabled veteran, I contacted the speech and audio dept. at my VA hospital . They had a small device I could strap on my belt, with volume controls. It was a amplifier. The head phones fit nicely with a boom mike at my mouth. I looked like Garth Brooks on stage giving a performance. On the radio, or at the super market, everyone heard me with no problems. You might contact them to see what brand it was. When I got my voice back, I returned it to the audio dept, so someone else might use it. They insisted I could keep it, but I returned it anyway. It was a very nice amplifier. I think if I had to buy it myself, it sole for less than 75.00 Even if your not a veteran, call them anyway to find out what the brand was. 73`s, hope you recover as well as I did.

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