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Re: Radio mics



I'm also doing some experimentation with voice recognition and I considered using radio mics. After speaking to a couple of people who (claimed to :-)) have knowledge of these things I decided not to - they basically said that it was highly unlikely radio mics would be of sufficientlly good quality to use with voice recognition at all reliably.
 
I'm currently experimenting along wired lines with a condenser microphone. I have to admit I'm more than slightly tempted to shell out for the Rolls 8-input mixer from LetsAutomate but I thought I really should do some slightly smaller scale (and cheaper...) scale tests first. I managed to finally get a complete set of working kit for 1 microphone together last week, actually, and the results were mixed. Sound quality is excellent - much better than what I was getting from my cheap headset mic - but then the microphone cost about a factor of 10 more. Volume is a real problem, though. I'm looking around for a pre-amp of some kind to try and beef it up a bit but so far the only people I've found who claim to sell one for a reasonable price are Maplin, and I'm irrationally reluctant to plug my nice high quality bits of kit into something made/sold by Maplin.
 
This may have helped. Or maybe not. You never know....
 
Cheers,
 
Oliver.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Radio mics

Hi,

I've been thinking about tinkering with voice recognition - Not really using
it in anger, but just start to have a play, and see if I can get it running.

My initial thought was to get hold of a radio mic which I could plug into my
HA server, and use around the house in much the same was as a remote...
Okay, not as neat as putting mics in all the rooms, but far cheaper
considering that I'm not sure that a) I'd use it, and b) it would be all
that reliable!

The problem is, that I have no idea about the range of radio mics, or which
one to go for... I could place the receiver pretty centrally in the house,
and it's not a bit house, so it wouldn't need a range of more than about 10
meters or so (albeit with walls in the way obviously).

Has anyone got any good/bad experiences with radio mics, and anyone care to
make a recommendation?! (a supplier would be good too!).

Thanks,
Adam.



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