Is the microphone on this unit high enough quality to get a good response from dictation software if you can get the bluetooth to be recognized? (Could you expect a good response from dragon dictates or macspeech for example) Is the microphone on this unit high enough quality to get a good response from dictation software if you can get the bluetooth to be recognized? (Could you expect a good response from... » Read More Is the microphone on this unit high enough quality to get a good response from dictation software if you can get the bluetooth to be recognized? (Could you expect a good response from dragon dictates or macspeech for example) « Show Less
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Yes if you are in a quiet area. Any background noise will negatively affect the microphones performance. ~G
2111373
In my ooinion the microphone works good. For the budget buyer it works great. Use an audio software like audacity to record and tweak and sound problems (which I haven't ran I to) and you got yourself a good microphone.
1316570
I found out (after I bought it of course) that only the models that have bluetooth have voice recognition, it seemed odd to have something like that tied to having bluetooth, I have the one with lifetime maps + traffic (no bluetooth) and don't have the feature.
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Does that microphone come with any installation drivers? Or is it suppose to be plug and play? From what i read on google audacity works and has support for windows 8 which is what this machine has. If you want to be 100% sure you would have to install audaciity on a friends computer which has windows 8 and then see if the mic works.. As far as whT i can tell from reading audacity is supported by the machine. WhT is the make and and model of your microphone and i can look the information up for you.
1408082
You will not require software and the microphone, when working, is sensitive enough to pick up about anything. I have found it to be somewhat unreliable, but when it works, it works well.
1366652
to the person that mentioned their sound card.... i don't know what kind of mac you have but i 've been having this problem with headsets and my g5 late 2005 for some reason macs don't always support the mic on pc compatible headsets etc so i was told by mac support to either buy an imic that would convert the mic and sound plugs into a usb headset or better yet to go to the website for mac dictate or the software that mac made previously to recognize voice and buy one of their certified mics at least then you know that it will work with other mac applications that really do need a sensitive mic. I hope it helped i just had the problem and am again trying to solve it now that i have rosetta. I tried the imic and it still didn't work but i could have bought a better headset to go with the imic and maybe that would have worked.
1985838
The sound from the microphone is somewhat medium to low PHONE-QUALITY, so you know what to expect. I have not tried to pair with a Mac Book Pro, but paired with Windows and also an Android phone. The USB (micro) serves ONLY for CHARGING. Don't expect to use it as a USB microphone. Also, the range of the microphone (in my testing) was reliable to about 15 feet from my laptop. As they say, your mileage may vary. Battery life is unknown as I have only used for brief conversations under 15 minutes.
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I got it to work for Skype, so I know that it will link up with Bluetooth that has mics built in, so I assume it will. I no longer have this devices, broke in couple months, but I have a similar device and I will check it out with the Microsoft voice recognition, and let you know.I have tested windows 7 speech recognition software with LG Tone HBS700 and got it to work. To get it to work you need to set it to default. Here is a website that will instruct you: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/a29c58d0-6c21-4ec0-8934-531ced0d8030/Also to get sound out of it you will need to set playback devices to default, similar to mic. I got it to work for Skype, so I know that it will link up with Bluetooth that has mics built in, so I assume it will. I no longer have this devices, broke in couple months, but I have a similar device and I will check it out with the Microsoft voice recognition, and let you know.I have tested windows 7 speech recognition software with LG Tone HBS700 and got it to work. To get it to work you need to set it to default. Here is a website that will instruct you: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/a29c58d0-6c21-4ec0-8934-531ced0d8030/Also... » Read More I got it to work for Skype, so I know that it will link up with Bluetooth that has mics built in, so I assume it will. I no longer have this devices, broke in couple months, but I have a similar device and I will check it out with the Microsoft voice recognition, and let you know.I have tested windows 7 speech recognition software with LG Tone HBS700 and got it to work. To get it to work you need to set it to default. Here is a website that will instruct you: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpromedia/thread/a29c58d0-6c21-4ec0-8934-531ced0d8030/Also to get sound out of it you will need to set playback devices to default, similar to mic. « Show Less
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Maybe it does, i wouldn't know, i use a separate microphone then the one built into these headphones, and i also do not own dragon voice software
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Dictation software is available on the Mac. Although I haven't looked at it in a while and it may have changed with the last update, the Mac dictation is far more limited and is more appropriate for a sentence or two or quick commands. Unless it has radically changed, it is not as accurate as Dragon, once you have set up and implemented Dragon. It is good for a quick sentence here or there but isn't yet set up for dictating long text documents the way that Dragon is. I agree it would be much better to have all this at your fingertips within the OS itself (and I'd even be willing to pay for an add on). Dragon definitely could use some competition in this market and Apple clearly has the ability to do this, as does Google. Sadly, neither company has released anything that can compete directly with Dragon. Dragon's software definitely works, but whether you are using it in Windows or OS X, it is definitely quirky and never completely integrates with the host OS. Having the most mature and viable product and pretty much the ONLY product for individual use, has allowed Dragon to charge higher prices, give so-so customer support to retail consumers, and continue to put a product that never quite meshes completely with the host OS (although it remains highly useful and is gobs faster than typing). It is only a matter of time, though, and this is a field where some healthy competition would be a good thing.
820571
Voice recognition is part of Windows function. So, essentially any Windows computer with microphone "comes with" voice recognition. This one is not an exception. It needs to be activated though. Does it work well? Now, that is a separate question all together... I haven't used it in a while, but it used to require quite a bit of patience. I am not sure if it has gotten any better over the years.
1678986
This was a great microphone for that. Unfortunately for me the plug end which snaps into the iphone fell apart in about a month of use and although Edutige support answered quickly, things died and I never received the RMA to replace. If you buy, I believe you will be happy with the experience, especially if it stays together. Good luck.
1034403
This won't work in my experience. It gets recognized but no matter what 3.5" microphone you plug into it, it won't recognize the audio for chat... have anyone really test it? I did and that was my experience
223040
It has a microphone, so if you have an app that recognizes voice, it SHOULD work.
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I have been using it to do voice overs for scribe videos and it has worked very well using my iMac. I have been very happy with the quality of the audio. Therefore, yeah, I think it's great for voice overs.
258692
No, there is NO voice recognition software that can do this at all well in 2012. You know how when you call an airline or bank and get into arguments with their voice recognition software that tries to listen to what you need? It's a long-term goal to develop reliable voice transcription that can listen to multiple people with multiple voicings and dialects speaking conversationally, but it's not even close to being implemented yet. Right now, the state of the art for voice recognition, which Dragon employs, is that each user develops his or her own personal user profile that gets more accurate the more it's used. Dragon can only use one user profile per session. The software has to be restarted to load a different user profile for a different speaker, so it's totally impractical in a meeting- or courtroom-type setting where several people may speak a sentence or two in turn. Dragon would do a very poor job in this setting without restarting it to change to a different user profile as the speaker changed--way too many errors to be useful. There is transcription hardware available elsewhere that tries to work around this using Dragon and Word. You need a translator, who re-dictates what he or she hears the meeting or courtroom participants say as they're speaking, much like a foreign translator at the United Nations. This person wears a device that looks like an oxygen mask (to focus the input to Dragon to that user profile, and also to reduce the noise in the meeting or courtroom from having another person speak simultaneously). The people who sell this hardware say that it works well and saves years of practice with a stenography machine such as the ones used by courtroom reporters. I haven't tried it, so I can't say if it's a good workaround, though I do agree that in theory, it sounds workable with a little practice on the part of the re-dictator.
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I have used it quite successfully with Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 12.5. I broke mine and bought the next step up, the WH100B, as the replacement; it did not work with the same Dragon product. Nuance has a chart ranking the units that work work with Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 on their web site. I would recommend checking it before purchasing anything.I hope this help you out. Have a nice day.