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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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