Back to you Tom Hamilton.
I have been using my TravelMike extensively. It is simply amazing.
In the package was also a FlexyMike dual ear cardioid mic which is even more amazing ? at least more accurate ? but of course you have to wear it on your head in order to go from what seems like about 98% up to about 99% accuracy. I haven't had a lot of experience with that one yet, mostly because I'm so happy with the TravelMike.
Up to now, I have mostly been using a Plantronics over- the- ear microphone with the Plantronics USB card, and sometimes I use an old Phillips SpeechMike. Originally I thought I would like to use the SpeechMike the way I used to use the handheld microphone on a dictaphone, but I quickly became tired of holding onto the microphone, and I found I didn't need the start, stop, playback, etc. buttons. Dictation technique is quite different using Dragon. The Plantronics is plenty accurate, but hurts my ear after prolonged use.
As you have pointed out many times in the past, they all work quite well, and actually even the headset that comes in the box with Dragon is amazingly good, though it does not compare with the other four that I have. I really have to hand it to Nuance. They have done their homework and the program is simply astounding. It is important always to dictate and not have a conversation with the computer. It doesn't work that way.
The bottom line keeps changing for me, but at the present time I think that I am going to stick with my laptop and the TravelMike plugged into the USB socket on the side. This puts the microphone in an almost perfect place for nearly 100% accuracy with speech recognition and very decent noise cancellation. I have tried using it in the office, out in the hall where we have little cubicle workstations. It is pretty noisy at out there, but the accuracy seems to be very satisfactory.
Tom Duncan
