RE: JAWS with a bluetooth headset
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Mullins, Chris" <Chris.Mullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:27:16 -0500
Hi Chris,
Yes, I believe it's rated for longer than 8 hours even, as long as
you're only listening via the headset, and not transmitting via the
microphone. I think with using the mike it is just around 8 hours.
The headset is amazingly small and light-weight. The earpieces are
normal sized, and there's no hint they contain electronics and a
battery!
One thing you should note is that no bluetooth headset transmits a good
enough quality voice via it's mike to do speech recognition with. This
was a big disappointment to me. If you need to use a wireless headset
and speech recognition, you'll need to buy a special headset, with it's
own receiver module which plugs into the pc, and costs around $150, and
definitely is not suited to use with a laptop.
One advantage I did not mention is that this headset is capable of
connecting with both a pc and a cell phone at the same time, and
allowing you to switch between them if you get or make a call. Many
people find this feature the reason they bought the headset (but I don't
use a cell much at all, so I've not tested it).
When you do use the mike to transmit, it uses one of the 2 channels
available, so your audio signal becomes mono (this is apparently part of
the bluetooth standard), so you cannot have stereo sound if you're
transmiting back to your computer for say voice chat or Skype.
hth,
Chip
p.s.
I'm going to copy the list on this, in case this extra information is
useful to others.
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Chip Orange
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mullins, Chris [mailto:Chris.Mullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 3:27 AM
> To: Chip Orange
> Subject: FW: JAWS with a bluetooth headset
>
> Chip
> What is the battery life of the headset? Does it last a full 8 hour
> working day?
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chip Orange
> Sent: 10 November 2008 16:38
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: JAWS with a bluetooth headset
>
> I use one from Dell, and it works fine. I don't see why any of the
> headsets would know about or care what the audio source for
> their output
> is, so I would think any of them would work with jaws.
>
> The one from Dell (which has a model number with 200 in it,
> but I can't
> remember it), works well, has a mike embedded in one ear-piece (so no
> boom in front of your face), and has a band that loops behind
> your head
> and rests kind of on the top of your neck at the base of your
> head. It
> is recharged via a usb cable.
>
> hth,
>
> Chip
>
>
>
>
>
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> Chip Orange
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>
> Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Griffiths, Steve
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:12 AM
> > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: JAWS with a bluetooth headset
> >
> > Does anyone know of a bluetooth headset that has a proven
> track record
> > of working with JAWS? I've got a client who needs something
> like this
> > but the Plantronics 520 she has tried causes a number of
> > problems. JAWS
> > works OK with bluetooth disabled, so I'm just trying to find
> > out whether
> > a bluetooth headset is a viable possibility.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
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