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| Customer Reviews: | | Average Customer Review: ( 27 customer reviews )
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39 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 The best headset I've ever had. Sep 13, 2009
By Alex
"xd810"
I purchased this headset to use with Draon Naturally Speaking for speech recognition.
Pros:
It works well for speech recognition, a lot better than the wired mike. Since my laptop has bluetooth capability, I am not using a USB adaptor, it's connected directly to the computer.
Also very good to be used with my cell phone. It's the forst time my wife does not complain when I use a headset to call her.
Confortable, it's the only headset I can wear for periods of time without giving me a headache.
Con: None really, just beware that the headset comes without a charger (because it's a replacement). I purchased a sepparate charger for another $8.00 (shipping included). Anyway, it cost me a third than any other similar quality headset would have cost.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Excellent sound quality and comfort, but fragile Dec 02, 2009
By Brian Allen
I purchased this headset to use primarily with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It's been working wonderfully for that purpose-- recognition is good and playing back my recorded voice sounds great. It also works quite well with my iPhone as a standard BT headset. Perhaps my favorite bit is that it can bind with both the computer and the phone simultaneously-- so I can be dictating to the computer and when a call comes in, just hit the button to answer.
Three downsides I've found so far. One, it's obviously a "replacement" unit, so you have to spend a fair amount to get a charger. Two, the construction is somewhat flimsy. The joint connecting the ear-loop to the body can't take much abuse, and I'm worried I'll be replacing it soon. That's fine for sitting at my desk dictating, but not good for getting thrown in my bag and jostled around. Final downside is with respect to using it with your computer: the hell of bluetooth profiles.
I'm running DNS on Windows XP sp3, through VMWare on a Mac. Since the Mac has built-in bluetooth, I figured I could just use that. And it all works... almost. Turns out that neither Microsoft (XP nor Windows 7) nor Apple (in their Bootcamp drivers) supply the "headset profile" that's essential for using it for speech recognition. After many, many hours of struggle (installing several different bluetooth stacks, even reinstalling Windows 7) I finally broke down and bought a separate Bluetooth-USB dongle. That dongle included a CD with the headset profile and now everything works perfectly. But be warned if you want to use this for speech recognition: you must have the headset profile for your bluetooth adapter for it to work.
In the end, I think it's a good headset, and it serves me quite well, but if I were going to schlep it around with me everywhere, I'd go for a more sturdy product.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Crackling sound, connection confusion w iPhone and Mac Snow Leopard Mar 27, 2010
By D. Hamm
I wanted this for two reasons:
1. To use this for voice dictation using MacSpeech Dictate international version 1.5.8 on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard.
2. To have better range and sound clarity than the $25 Motorola Bluetooth earpiece that I currently own.
The end result:
I returned it in favor of a wired headset (Sennheiser PC 151) and direct USB connection for dictation and have gone back to using my smaller Motorola earpiece.
Pros:
-The boom mic on this headset is close to your mouth, so a test recording did sound slightly better than my smaller one that just stick in your ear.
-Connects to mobile phones and computers with relative ease.
Cons:
- I had trouble connecting it to my Mac running Snow Leopard and MacSpeech Dictate International. If I used it to make a phone call on my iPhone, I had trouble getting it to work once I reconnected to my Mac. I was connecting to the Mac directly over Bluetooth using LineIn & SoundFlower to convince MacDictate to recognize the Plantronic headset.
- There was a lot of sound interference (pops and clicks) in my recorded voice as well as any audio going to the earpiece. That crackling was bothersome to listen to all day. My other ear piece does this so perhaps it is my environment. Range from my iPhone was not increased versus my Motorola earpiece.
- The earpiece did not fit well for me and especially when I wore my glasses, and due to its weight would easily come dislodged.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Great for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Jan 27, 2010
By Patrick Dempsey
"PismoPat"
This headset works extremely well with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It was a little complicated finding the information about all the different components fails them separately and they come from different sources.
Also, if you buy the headset from a Dragon dealer you get a cable that will charge through the USB port. I could not find that on the Amazon website.
The Dragon website as the user guide for using the mic.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Bluetooth Headset Aug 30, 2011
By anidub
I was looking for a bluetooth headset for use with my cell phone that offered excellent sound quality. The size was not a major concern. I have had this for a few months now and the sound quality is excellent and works very well with my blackberry torch and also with my laptop for skype calls.
I also ordered the "Voyager Discovery Explorer AC Wall Power Adapter Charger" on amazon to charge this headset as it does not come with one. Works perfectly. The charger / headset connector does not hold on tight and is easy to pop out unintentionally.
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