@ner

I am not surprised by your comment regarding difficult hearing situations but honestly have not tried Otter in other than a normal setting. I will make it a point to do so. I do know it was intended for business meetings originally.
I know that, generally , any of my speech to text apps perform poorly or not at all in crowded noisy venues. I doubt there are any on the market currently that will perform well. My Live Transcribe app indicates “crowd” when it doesn’t work even when held close to the speaker’s mouth.

I am thankful for what they do in all other areas and try to avoid noisy environments but we cannot always do that. We didn’t have any of these options not so long ago and we are lucky for what we have including assisted devices and CIs as @julieo4 said.

I think we will see hologram type captions in front of speakers before there are any breakthroughs in cell regeneration. And God Bless all the live captioners and researchers who will one day make “hearing loss” a thing of the past.

FL Mary