Re: MacSpeech Dictate review
- From: Mark Conrad <noneof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:45:27 -0700
In article <iLWdnRgQXfwtmkXanZ2dnUVZ_s2tnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lewis <g.kreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
USB Translator (external sound card) is from by the same vxicorp.
It is a small encapsulated device that is between the headset
and the USB connector on the Mac.
OK, what is this thing? You can't use a regular USB headset without
this dongle?
There is no such critter as a "USB headset" without a dongle.
Explanation: When you plug a headset into the USB jack, the
Mac's internal sound card is bypassed.
i.e., you are trying to run without _any_ sound card.
You _can_ plug a common (non USB) headset into the Mac by
using the regular mini plugs, whereupon the Mac's internal
sound card _will_ by used.
I just now did this, using the supplied MacSpeech headset
_without_ its dongle, and it worked just fine.
That said, there are good reasons to stick with using
the dongle.
One of the reasons has to do with the PC users obsession
to buy PCs as cheap as possible, which caused some PC
manufacturers to throw in cheap sound cards that worked
poorly with speech app's.
The sound cards encapsulated inside the small dongle are
high quality, designed to work with speech app's.
Another reason is to use an _external_ sound card,
in order to keep the sound card away from the
electrically-noisy guts of the Mac, where electrical
pickup of interfering signals can degrade the very weak
signal coming in from the headset-microphone.
Mark-
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- MacSpeech Dictate review
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