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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Headset microphone must work for speech recognition input. Speakers
are for recreational music. Hopefully spend no more than $150 (USD). Thanks. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Maybe I should forget Bluetooth, if the microphone input sucks.
Definitely need to hear examples on YouTube or wherever. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
On 5/26/2014 5:21 PM, John Doe wrote:
Maybe I should forget Bluetooth, if the microphone input sucks. Definitely need to hear examples on YouTube or wherever. Well I am not up on all of them, although I have a few and I got one of these. And so far these are the best ones I own (with Bluetooth). You can use them with a cord too if you want (it isn't using the battery in this mode), but I noticed frequency sounds kind of flat from wire. http://www.ebay.com/itm/MEElectronic...-/131139956547 It has a mic, but I never tried it yet. It does get 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Kingston 120GB SSD - Thunderbird v24.4.0 Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8.1 Pro w/Media Center |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Previously on comp.mobile.android, John Doe said:
Headset microphone must work for speech recognition input. Speakers are for recreational music. It took a few tries to get a working replacement out of the manufacturer, but I'm now quite happy with the LG Tone+ HP-730 stereo bluetooth headset. Hopefully spend no more than $150 (USD). $50.99 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics...ords=lg+hb+730 The bulk of the thing sits around the neck, earbuds on wires, very comfortable. The mic, despite its placement below the chin, is apparently quite good. And by that, I mean that people I've spoken to via this headset have not complained of sound issues, which I sometimes get even with a Plantronics Voyager headset and its long mic boom and multiple noise-canceling mics. As long as BT will work with the software, it should work for you. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org Double ROT13 encoded for your protection "Herein lies the value of free speech. It makes concealment difficult, and, in the long run, impossible. One heretic, if he is right, is as good as a host. He is bound to win in the long run. It is thus no wonder that foes of the enlightenment always begin their proceedings by trying to deny free speech to their opponents. It is dangerous to them and they know it. So they have at it by accusing these opponents of all sorts of grave crimes and misdemeanors, most of them clearly absurd - in other words, by calling them names and trying to scare them." - H. L. Mencken |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Some Turtle Beach Z300 reviews that include a microphone test...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...nfCkA#t=10 52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufBi...tailpage#t=396 Trying to find the same for the Turtle Beach XP400. Way too many reviews of cell phone earpiece headset microphones that do not include a sound test, even though it's Bluetooth. They come with a dongle that the reviewer can plug into their computer. Maybe they don't know how to change recording device options. -- Of course I appreciate the replies. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Amazon is wrecking its review section by allowing manufacturers to
give products away so they can get good ratings. Some of the ratings are very distorted by their "vine" program. It's obvious by the fact "Vine Customer Review of Free Product" review ratings are much higher than normal reviews. They choose those people probably by their tendency to give very good ratings on products. I can see limiting the reviews to verified purchasers, but that Vine stuff is no better than spam. Whenever I see one of those with a glowing title, I neg it. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
To get my feet wet, I bought a Motorola HK250 dirt cheap. It's a
mobile phone headset worn on your ear. Music output sounds great! Too bad it's mono. Of course it paired/connected easily with my Android tablet. It doesn't come with a Bluetooth dongle, so pairing it with my computer is a problem. I would like to use a Logitech Bluetooth dongle, but no luck yet. Recording my voice on the tablet and then playing the file on the PC... My voice sound is very good, but it doesn't block background noises. My PC headset microphone sounds very good while blocking background noises. But I'm not sure if high quality mobile phone headset noise canceling works as well (or the same way). I can find out with an expensive model, but of course would be better to just hear them first. Trying to find such recordings is very difficult. The sample recordings I've heard are made in high noise environments and the speech sounds robotic. Don't know if that's because the noise canceling hardware and algorithm is different than my PC microphone. I need to hear their speech in a normal noise environment to hear if the resulting voice quality qualifies for speech recognition. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
I wrote:
My voice sound is very good, but it doesn't block background noises. I might have been listening to the built-in microphone. Seems the Bluetooth microphone does block background noise. Sound quality is not very good though. I need to hear [Plantronics Voyager Legend & Pro] speech in a normal noise environment to hear if the resulting voice quality qualifies for speech recognition. There are some easy access downloadable file recordings on this page... http://soundingboard.plantronics.com/thread/37524 Recorded in a quiet setting. I sincerely hope that's not how the microphone on the Plantronics Voyager Legend or Pro sounds. It sounds muffled and slightly distorted. Overall, it sounds little better than my $20 Motorola HC250, and that would be really weird IMO. There must be something wrong with those recordings, but it scares me off from buying one without more information. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
I found what claims to be a recording of the VXi VoxStar UC
Bluetooth headset/earpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=VIBGVod3gBs That sounds very good for my expectations of Bluetooth. But first I will try a VXI BlueParrott B250-XT+. There are no easy to find recordings in quiet or normal environments. It's for truckers in noisy environments who aren't doing much speech recognition. But improvements over the prior version (like wideband audio) suggest it will work. Will find out very soon. Requires separate purchase of a Bluetooth dongle/adapter for your PC, like an ASUS USB-BT400. |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
the mic specs...
Microphone Primo EM-152N, Sensitivity -41 to -51dB @ 1KHz Ambient Noise Suppression 95% Frequency Response 90Hz to 15KHz |
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Bluetooth headset (speakers and mic) recommendation?
Preliminarily speaking...
Awesome. |
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