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From: daphne@netcom.com (Daphne Gould)
Subject: Re: noise cancelling microphone or headset - any recommended?
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 22:33:53 GMT
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In article <D3JJDw.5on@gacc.atl.ga.us>, Bob Adams <rea@gacc.atl.ga.us> wrote:
>In <3gsbui$fv7@pipe5.pipeline.com> ajweger@pipeline.com (Alan J. Weger) writes:
>
>> 
>>I am looking for a good noise cancelling microphone or headset (preferably
>>a headset). 
>> 
>>Can anyone recommend one? 
>>
>Alan, you may want to define your application in order to decide
>whether you need a noise cancelling mic or just a hypercardiod
>headworn mic.
>
>You can check our URL:
>
>http://www.commandcorp.com/incube_welcome.html
>
>for some info and images of the mics which we supply with our speech
>recognition systems.  While we refer to some of these as noise
>cancelling, all of them are actually hypercardiod.  If you really
>need noise cancelling, I would suggest that you contact Countryman
>Associates in the LA area.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bob Adams
>rea@commandcorp.com
>Command Corp. Inc.
>(404) 813-8030
>fax (404) 813-0113
> 

Dragon Systems has had very good luck with the Shure SM10a microphone.  
This is the same microphone that IBM VoiceType Dictation uses.  It is a 
noise cancelling microphone.

Joel Gould
Dragon Systems
joelg@dragonsys.com

