Colin Murphy wrote: > On Monday 02 March 2009 07:04:45 mac wrote: >> [...] I've also used usb Plantronics headsets (which have their own >> external sound cards - brilliant with laptops, > > I've not experimented with VOIP very much, but, when using a standard audio > socket headset I've struggled to overcome a buzz that gets included with my > outgoing audio, when I use a laptop. It does seem to be a standard laptop > problem anyway, people seem to, instantly, know I'm on a laptop because of > the buzz. Do USB headsets overcome this problem?
Yes, the reason I got a Plantronics DSP-100 headset was that I wanted to use voice recognition software (WinXP only, I fear), and the sound cards in laptops are just not up to it. The tightly packed electronics in a laptop produce considerable interference, which messes up the signal, not to mention the fact that laptop sound cards aren't that wonderful anyway. The DSP-100 sound card is in a 'pod' in the cable, outside the laptop, and it therefore avoids the problem of interference, besides being a better quality audio system than the ones in laptops. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
