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I have been trying to use a wireless microphone for speech recognition but cant seem to get it to work. If I go into the microphone settings via the control panel on my computer, I can see the level indicator moving when I speak into the mic and I set it as default. Also tried changing levels with no luck. Has anyone else tried one of these mics? I was hoping to have a mic that was not too noticeable but if I cant get it working I might have to get a head set.

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#1  

If you set it as default while ARC is open, ARC will need to be closed and reopened to initialize the device.

#3  

Steve, let me know what you end up with. I plan on mounting my computer in the B9 and will need a remote microphone mounted somewhere in the room that is wireless attached somehow. As we all know mounting a mic on the robot is not a good idea because of the noise problem. I've been looking for a good desktop mic because I don't want to carry one around.

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#4  

Hi Dave,

I got this microphone to work and I played around with it last night, BUT, it is a really cheap set ($10) and I had to play around with the mic levels in the computer quite a bit to get the speech recognition to work with any degree of reliability. You definitely get what you pay for. It turned out to work best with all levels up flat out. If I had the levels down lower I needed to hold the mic right in front of my mouth for it to work "reliably"

With what you want to do, putting the computer in your robot and having a mic in the room, I was thinking a conference call style mic may work well but I dont know if there's one that can be wirelessly tethered to your laptop. There's also ceiling mounted conference mics which may be worth looking into but again, not sure if they can be wirelessly tethered.

Food for thought though

Steve

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#5  

I've tried out a few different microphones. I wanted something small that would fit in my ear but I can't find anything that works. The one I settled on and have been using for awhile now is the Logitech Wireless Headset H800. I might hack it so it's a little smaller.

#6  

@Bob... thanks for that.... I have been looking for a wireless headset for sometime now...:)

#7  

You should buy a new micro phone device.

#8  

Tony (@Toymaker) uses the Revolabs xTAG Here is a quote from a post by @Toymaker

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The AIMEC;3 and AIMEC:4 robots use DNS11 with almost 100% accuracy. The EZ:1 robot currently uses Microsoft engine 8 as the robot is controlled by an EZ-B and I have yet to make the DNS link with ARC. But I still get really good accuracy with engine 8 in grammar mode (dictation mode is not so good, but grammar mode is what you use with ARC), but I use a really good wireless mic that just clips to my shirt pocket or collar. This works so well that I can even control music volumes etc as the SNR (signal to noise ratio) is so good with regards to my voice. I use the Revolabs xTAG its pricey but you have to pay if you want this level of performance.

Revolabs

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