Hello,
With this Covid around, I am really struggling to understand people with masks. I never knew I was relying so much on the face expressions & lip reading!
Now, I am looking for a solution to have live captions of my colleagues speech during meetings. I am really afraid I will miss a lot of things because of the masks. I want to use the real-time transcription for complementing what I hear myself via the hearing aids.
I considered Android’s Live Transcribe, but I need to give the phone to the speaking colleague - for him/her to speak into the phone’s microphone and then stay near to read the phone’s screen. Doesn’t allow for the social distancing too much…
At home I can cope very well - I use the Chrome browser and I can see the live captions for the meetings (our conferencing application is running in the browser) - using Google Chrome’s “Live captions” - it works for any sound from the browser. The transcribed captions appear real-time so I can follow the speech and text in sync. It’s lovely.
But when at the office, I won’t be able to use that.
I have Phonak Bolero Venture aids.
I was thinking into investing in a:
- Roger Select to put on the meeting table +
- Roger NeckLoop to wear on myself.
And then to connect the Roger NeckLoop to my laptop via USB and use Otter.io to transcribe (OR maybe try with my smartphone and Live Transcribe). I read this material about Roger NeckLoop and speech to text.
Do you have experience with the NeckLoop?
Or maybe do you see any alternative solutions?
Any thoughts you have are really very much appreciated!
Thanks,
Mar