Rubi Audiology has made a Speech to Text box that allows text to come on to the screen from what was said through Oticon accessories like the Oticon EduMic.
Adaptor will be available through their website soon apparently.
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And again, I didnât figure it out 
Edumic doesnât have Bluetooth. How does it connect to this adapter?
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Iâm not sure how it works but it also works with the Oticon TV Adaptor 3.0 which I thought was rather good.
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Why donât you want to try glasses with speech recognition? Hereâs an interesting option, it recognizes many languages and translates them.
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I think it would be inconvenient to carry a computer, an adapter, and an Edumic.
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Oh I do if I can find ones that arenât so expensive or I can try and get them funded.
My village I live in, has a charity to help out people who live there. I could applyâŚ.
I posted about the Oticon box for others to see as not everyone wants to get a Phonak Roger for the speech to text option.
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The EduMic and the TVAdapter are received by the aids via the same program. So if the gadget receives the audio-data sent by the TVAdapter, it will also receive that from the EduMic.
I somehow fail to see the merit of this gadget.
- If someone is wearing an EduMic, you could also give them a bluetooth headset or mic to stream directly to a PC or laptop.
- If youâve connected an audio-output to the TVAdapter, you can also directly input that audio into a PC or laptop.
- If someone is speaking live, you could also pick the sound up with the mic of a phone and directly use that for speech2text.
I doesnât seem like theyâre selling much more than the gadget. It seems like theyâre using the speech2text software that is currently being developed due to all those online meetings in which apparently a lot of people need subtitles to understand what participants are saying. 
Still, glad that they at least mention the EduMic. It felt like I bought a obsolete piece of tech, when I found out it switches my REAL 1 aids to the wrong program, when itâs turned on. (It switches to the mic-program instead of the TV-Adapter/EduMic program.)
So it seems that they are selling a way to use speech2text in a setting in which the technological knowledge is absent. Which is of course nice. Itâs like tech support in the form of a gadget and an app.
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Using a Speech to Text App on your phone with a person who is quite far away and in noise, would not work.
Iâve tried it. This is the reason I bought the Roger NeckLoop to use the Phonak Roger as Speech to Text.
Just thought it was cool that people who have Oticon accessories have an option as well.
Iâd imagine it would be useful in education more than anything else.
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I understand that TwinLink from Oticon is installed in this adapter. But how did Oticon allow this? Does this mean that third-party manufacturers can use TwinLink? If so, why hasnât anyone released a USB adapter for connecting Oticon hearing aids to any computer?
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It might be some proprietary RF, likely over 2.4Ghz. Also could be Infrared, but that seems unlikely.
I appreciate your post.
Iâve had Widex and 3 pair of Phonak. I want to know about other hearing aids so that I can find the best hearing aid maker for my future hearing aids.
DaveL
Toronto