Ok so this will be the first asked question related to this at all: I crashed recently and lost my hearing, but I have a hearing aid that can connect to the audio with a phonak tvlink that I got. I want to do voice chat with my brother but I can't figure it out… all I can do is hear his voice and actually understand all of it somehow (go modern hearing aids!!).
How can I (if it's even possible) separate a mic from a system that let's me listen to voice chat and possibly the gameplay as well as talking to them across the voice chat system? And/or is there something that connects with bluetooth to both or something…? If you don't understand my awful writing, Google "Phonak TVlink S" and try to figure out how I could do full voice chat with it. The game is Black Ops 2 if that has any relevance.
Best Answer
There's a couple of approaches that might work for you.
The first thing I would try is changing your voice preferences:
This will route the voice chat to your TV or home theater's speakers. If you plug your hearing aid into the TV, you should hear the game sounds and the voice chat. You can plug a standard Xbox 360 headset into the controller, but you can ignore the earpiece - the audio is routed to your TV. Just speak into the mic as normal and you should hear everything fine through your aid.
The other thing you can try is buying a third-party headset or headset adapter. Many headsets designed for the Xbox 360 (like Turtle Beach models that advertise compatibility) will route both the voice and the game audio to the headset by design. However, interfacing your hearing aid to these might be tricky.
I own, use, and love my Astro Mixamp. They don't sell the wireless model without a headset anymore, but the wired model might work fine for you. It plugs into the TV's optical out port, and then a standard headset can be plugged into the other end. You can probably use your hearing aid as the audio out portion, and then plug any standard PC mic into the audio in jack. It's more expensive, but if you're going to be doing this long term, it might be a more general solution to your issue.