I like the Roger 2 it very versatile.
What did you go for in the end and how is it working out for you?
Iāve got a similar situation to resolve and Iām looking for ideas and advice as Iāve very recently and rapidly lost a good proportion of hearing in my left ear, but Iām finding it very hard to make out speech unless the person is right next to my right ear.
Iām not a teacher (it is a job that requires far more patience and skill than I have) but I do run workshops with groups of clients where they are around a table and Iām up at a whiteboard or where we are all working on different whiteboards.
I have Live Transcribe on my iPhone and find it very helpful. I also have Roger assistive equipment like the Roger ON. In several situations the Live Transcribe works better for me.
For instance in a car. I can sit in the back seat with 3 others in the car and read what was said in the front seat, Amazing. I use it in restaurants, home gatherings, with bank tellers. In my house it hooks up to the wifi and works better this way. In a classroom situation I donāt feel it would work well enough due to the distance from the speaker. The service is cheap compared to Phonak accessory equipment so I look at it as another tool the works very well in certain situations. I also put it on my ipad so I have another tool.
For instance I had an important phone call coming that my hearing can have difficulty with. So I put the call on my iPhone speaker phone and fired up the iPad application so I could also read what was being said. Very helpful.
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LiveTranscribe has helped me get back to group meetings where thereās a speaker, since it picks up the speaker, and then, when we have the table discussions, those at my table. Iāve found it picks up the speaker well at church also. Iām a happy camper!
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Iām assuming you have to be at the front for this to work?
Iām going to an event soon to listen to a talk from a well known UK explorer but Iām not at the front as the seats were booked already.
(Iām now thinking after writing this that I need to be near a speaker, rather than the front?)
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Can anyone tell me if either Live Transcribe or Otter are compatible with iPhone 14? Iām always struggling with hearing in a group; might as well stay home! I did try out CaptionMate for my telephone calls and that works great for me. I can āhearā the conversation but also read it which helps me immensely to understand the conversation. But would really like to try Live Transcribe and/or Otter. I looked for LT in App Store. There are a ton of different ones. Which one are you using. Havenāt looked yet for the Otter app. Any help/advice you can offer would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Hi Zebra! No, you donāt need to be in front. As long as the sound system is picking the voice up, it comes in fine on the cell phone. Iāve never tried in an arena, for exampleā¦ with all the echos, but in a mid-size church I sat in back and it picked it up fine. I wasnāt near a speaker I donāt think.
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Otter is compatible but Live Transcribe costs on iPhone at least in the UK.
I use NALscribe and itās really accurate and you can save it as well.
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Thank you @gayle
Iām going to try it out when I go see this explorer.
Itās quite a small theatre so fingers crossed it works.
I wonder if Roger On V2 can pick up voices and send them to the phone with the Live Transcribe app open.
I know for sure that my Roger On V1 does not have this option (thatās why itās V1).
I 'm using Roger v2. As a classroom substitute Iām very happy with it. However, you need to look at the range of the table mic vs the Roger. Also with having your back turned working on white boards I would be leaning toward the table mic. The Roger is really for groups of 6 or less sitting around a table, one on one or lecture wearing. How large are your groups? The nice thing with the table mic you can link 2 together for larger groups. If you go to the phonak site they have a question sequence they lead you through and give a recommendation for your circumstance. Also a Phonak rep came to my audiologist office and let me test drive the different products before I orded my Roger.
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Yes Live Transcribe will work fine on the iPhone14. You just download the app from the App store on the phone.
Yes it can. Both the V1 and V2 and any Roger Mic can.
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My view is that the 2 big mics on the base of the iPhone work better than the little mics on the Roger ON. Thatās been my experience. I just turn the phone around so the mics face where the speaker is. You can flip the screen in the app so you can read the text on the screen. The text can also be saved.
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Thanks for info! I am surprised about that possibility. However, erm, I guess I wonāt buy NeckLoop after all 
I already do have much of Phonakās stuff. 
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Perhaps because the iPhone has the advantage of having 2 mics directly in front of the speaker. The Roger must have 4 mics on the upper side of the case, not directly in front of the speaker.
I would have said that the Roger signal goes straight to the hearing aids, no phone involved.
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Yes, but I meant utilizing the outstanding directionality of Roger On mics to improve Live Transcribeās accuracy.
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Right. Thus I donāt see how livescribe can take advantage of Roger. The phone never sees it, so livescribe never sees it. My opinion, never having tried.
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By plugging in a Roger Neckloop to your phone or iPad or tablet, it can scribe what is said through the Roger Mic.
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