Thanks whoever wrote this posting above and LiveListen sounds well worth trying. I had written this before reading that so I will continue with the post I have regarding my Roger On tryout.

It was the first time that my audio had ever been asked for this device so if I buy it (for $1300 a relatively good price but of course expensive) I worry a bit about after sale service and advice albeit I have two techie sons nearby who both have some degree of hearing loss.
OK so now to my experience with this device after 5 days.
1. In quiet settings as when 4 of us had tea in our house and also 4 people again on a neighbor’s deck for lunch it made listening to the speaker very easy and even when I went inside to the powder room I could still hear the speaker. In both of those situations my hearing is such that aided alone I might have strained to understand depending on the speaker or asked them to repeat none of which I needed to do with the Roger On. I have to note that in those small quiet settings if more than one person was speaking at once the hearing advantage wore off.
And in the house with my husband wearing it on a lanyard it worked well but wouldn’t be needed if he only faced me! I didn’t hook it up to the tv but put it near the soundbar and from that can imagine that it would stream well obviating the need for closed captions which are now essential.

2. The second situations were in noise and not successful. Whether I could have gone into the app and turned off some of the 4 microphones for a better situation I don’t know and at 84 I am not a big cell phone user or that adept at my iPhone compared to younger ones albeit better than most of my peers!
Anyway both in a restaurant and at the optical desk at costco the background noise came through with the speaker’s voice loud and clear and I did better without the device and turned it off in both instances.
3. Another situation it is meant to be good for but I am never likely to need these days is meetings where one person at a time is speaking although I gather it is not good if more than one person is speaking and this I found in the quiet home settings too.
The situation where I think I would find it useful is in the back of the car when about 4 times a year we get driven somewhere by others. Unless the upfront passenger turns to the back normally I can’t understand them.
So this is my experience to date and I am still on the fence about whether to buy or not. In terms of other assistive devices I love the Captel phone on our landline and use innocaption on my cell for the very rare call on that.

Someone just mentioned NALSCRIBE and I think it would have been great at the Costco optical situation as would likely have been other speech to text apps. By the way I have 4 year old phonak audeo hearing aids.
I would very much appreciate any input that would help with my decision.