Phonak Roger NeckLoop Option for Speech to Text

@ssa

I want it more for my iPhone as when I use Teams for work, it has captions already. My work is 100% on Teams and not in person.

I would like to find a way for a Roger X to work for the iPhone tho as eventually the NeckLoop will fail over time.

May never find a way for the Roger X to work tho. Just thinking out loud.

In our R&D lab, we looked into this actually :slight_smile:

You really can’t do that with an iPhone but we have prototype for Android because we can modify the OS component where we send outgoing audio to a caption services and speaker.

Do you mean the Roger X and cable?

If so, I guess my only option is the NeckLoop.

i am not sure why you think having a neickloop would work…

@ssa

As per my first post, Phonak says it’ll work with a smartphone and talks about lighting adaptor.

What lighting adapter?

It’s in the link in the first post. It’s works on a camera lightning adapter.

“Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter”

As far as I’m aware, Lightning is only iPhone?

No, it’ll not work on iPhone… It only supports PTP and mass storage devices unless i am missing something.

I might not be understanding but the PDF is in the first post.

They don’t say it won’t work on iPhone tho.

It talks about smartphone with lightning and what to do if your smartphone has USB C.

It talks about both.

But I might be missing something as well.

I think it is referring to charging on the go…

It takes you through the process of attaching the NeckLoop and opening the Speech to Text App and talking into the Roger Mic.

Is this not referring to an iPhone?

This is odd…I looked at it, i think it is inaccurate … somebody didn’t really test this on iPhone…

How do you know it’s not accurate as Phonak haven’t mentioned anything?

Either way, I’ve emailed Phonak UK to confirm so we can see.

:slight_smile:

Apple official document state the usb only support mass storage and PTP. I am sorry that you were misled in that regard…

EDIT: Oh i am wrong… look like they updated the document/OS to support other hardware… Wow… weird… Use Apple USB-A camera adapters with USB-A devices - Apple Support

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Does seem I will have to power my iPhone to use this set up tho.

That’s a bummer.

Think it’s to do with the lightning adaptor?

it should work

“`Audio/MIDI interfaces and devices”

Found a NeckLoop on eBay.

Much cheaper.

Gonna test it out.

I’ll report back.

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Now I’m confused as why would you need a Roger for the Call to Text App?!

Sometimes Phonak don’t know what they are talking about……I think.

They only tested their own app and verified it is working there. They are not going to test other third party app…

That makes sense.

@ssa

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