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Re: [ECS] recommended microphone J Gary Mull Thu, 08 Jul 1999 18:32:37 -0400

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I think I would consider using the home pbx.  While visiting sir David
Kindred in Mary Land I watched as he simply picked up the phone and told
HAL to turn on a lamp or give him the weather report.  Since I have a phone
in every room I would not want to go to the expense to multiple microphones
and an expensive mixer etc, I would go for a telephone link to VR.....

        Gary


At 04:20 PM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Ryan Scott wrote:
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>> I'm just starting to mess around with VR... I'm wondering what I should
>> use for 'whole room' voice pickup.  I need a mic/vr program combo that
>> will work for the entire room, no matter where I am in the room.  I'm
>> willing to speak loudly to the computer, but I'm not interested in having
>> to be 12 inches from the microphone.
>
>Everyone seems to recommend Crown PZM mikes (see web pages below).
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>> And how would one wire up multiple microphones (since I've got multiple
>> rooms) to the one sound card?
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>To do it right, you're going to need to spend some money... first you need a
>mixer for the mikes (a cheap RadioShack model is probably good enough), but
>then you'll need a limiter/gate if you want to put any mikes in noisy areas
>so that the TV in one room won't drown out your voice in another room.
>
>http://smarthome.com/1472MR.html
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>There was another company that sells microphones with built-in limiters, but
>I don't remember where that was.. I think they were around $150/each
>
>
>> has anyone attempted this type of thing?  I want to be able to call
>> out to the computer from anywhere in the house and have it understand me.
>
>Sure, there are a lot of users of the Homevoice system
>(http://www.appliedfuture.com) that do exactly that.
>
>>
>> Thanks for any info!
>>
>> Ryan Scott
>> PostMasterDirect.com
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