Hello
I am hoping someone can help me who has had this experience. My use of a microphone is for speech recognition with Dragon NaturallySpeaking & some video voice-over. This is two areas that never seemed to meet. Currently I am using a headset microphone, the Audio-Technica Pro8HE which is a dynamic microphone primarily designed for stage use. This along with the Sennheiser ME3 seem to be the only microphones that I can find any discussion on it using for both stage & speech recognition.
What I am looking for is a desk level microphone that I can use for both purposes. So far the Røde Podcaster is looking very attractive. But how it would that form for speech recognition I have not been able to find out. Røde does make a brief mention that it could be used for this purpose.
When we are looking for microphones that are "designed" for speech recognition most of them seem to be very expensive or very cheap and often quite flimsy in appearance. When the above two microphones that I have mentioned, the Sennheiser & Audio Technica when sold by companies dealing with speech recognition they certainly up the price. The only problem comes with the physical interface, where some adapter is needed.
From the microphone itself it needs to deal with my rather boomy voice. The Audio-Technica Pro 8HE that I'm currently using is fed into a Buddy 7 USB soundcard designed for speech recognition. If I record directly from this microphone my voice seems to be quite heavily filtered. It lacks warmth and to me almost sounds like a telephone recording. But DNS seems to handle this quite well. If I use the Røde Podcaster author that matter any other recommended microphone for this purpose would I encounter problems with speech recognition? My own thoughts is that is a microphone produces very accurate results then it should be no problem to speech recognition but then my ears are not the same as the computer that has to deal with this.
It would be great to hear from anyone who has had similar experience.
Robert…
I am hoping someone can help me who has had this experience. My use of a microphone is for speech recognition with Dragon NaturallySpeaking & some video voice-over. This is two areas that never seemed to meet. Currently I am using a headset microphone, the Audio-Technica Pro8HE which is a dynamic microphone primarily designed for stage use. This along with the Sennheiser ME3 seem to be the only microphones that I can find any discussion on it using for both stage & speech recognition.
What I am looking for is a desk level microphone that I can use for both purposes. So far the Røde Podcaster is looking very attractive. But how it would that form for speech recognition I have not been able to find out. Røde does make a brief mention that it could be used for this purpose.
When we are looking for microphones that are "designed" for speech recognition most of them seem to be very expensive or very cheap and often quite flimsy in appearance. When the above two microphones that I have mentioned, the Sennheiser & Audio Technica when sold by companies dealing with speech recognition they certainly up the price. The only problem comes with the physical interface, where some adapter is needed.
From the microphone itself it needs to deal with my rather boomy voice. The Audio-Technica Pro 8HE that I'm currently using is fed into a Buddy 7 USB soundcard designed for speech recognition. If I record directly from this microphone my voice seems to be quite heavily filtered. It lacks warmth and to me almost sounds like a telephone recording. But DNS seems to handle this quite well. If I use the Røde Podcaster author that matter any other recommended microphone for this purpose would I encounter problems with speech recognition? My own thoughts is that is a microphone produces very accurate results then it should be no problem to speech recognition but then my ears are not the same as the computer that has to deal with this.
It would be great to hear from anyone who has had similar experience.
Robert…