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From: DR on 10 Feb 2010 20:21 'Hog posted: >Can anyone suggest, from actual experience, a pc microphone good enough to >sit on a large table surrounded by 8 people which will work well with Skype >conferencing. > >I've tried a Prosound USB Podcast mic and a Blue Snowball USB mic. Both fine >bits of kit. Shite for the porpoise. > >I was trying to avoid something with an internal battery but am realising >this may not be easy (for an analogue item). Yes, I think you may be right there - I used to recommend Audio Technica ATR97 boundary microphones for that sort of thing, which of course need an internal LR44 battery. Of course I'm a bit out of the game these days, so others may know better. -- Darren GSF1200N K3
From: Simon Wilson on 11 Feb 2010 00:31 Cab wrote: > Simon Wilson wibbled forthrightly: > >> Cab wrote: >>> Simon Wilson wibbled forthrightly: >>> >>>>> You're in for it now, I hope you realise. :-D >>>>> >>>> As long as more and more people use it (and they are), then I'm >>>> happy. Most times I'll probably suggest people contact our >>>> support - it's got a lot better recently. >>> Do you work in Sales? >> Nope. Why do you ask? > > You just sound like a salesman. :-) > Heh. oops. You've seen my CV IIRC. -- /Simon
From: Switters on 11 Feb 2010 04:22 On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:08:06 GMT, Paul Carmichael wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:26:14 +0000, Simon Wilson escribió: > >> Tried the beta version? http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > It wants libasound2. I already have libasound2, but it says I haven't. It worked for me last night. This is on Ubuntu 9.10.
From: Simon Wilson on 11 Feb 2010 07:43 DozynSleepy wrote: >> > > You could try a Skype ATA adapter with a proper Polycomm Soundstation 2 > conference phone. > > Zoom 5900 USB Phone Adaptor for Skype > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zoom-5900-Phone-Adaptor-Skype/dp/B001AIK8XK > > Dlink DPH-50U Skype USB Phone Adapter with PSTN Line Port. > http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-DPH-50U-Skype-Phone-Adapter/dp/B000EW4XRA > > RapidBox (maybe US only) > http://www.rapidvoip.com/products.html > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Polycom-Soundstation-2-Conference-Phone/dp/B0007M69QU > > > I've not tried it with Skype but I've got one connected to our Trixbox > PBX through a Linksys PAPT2 SIP adapter which works well. > ICBW, but I think if you use those type of boxes you don't get any of the quality (super wideband) benefits when making a Skype-Skype call. If you are calling out to people on pstn lines etc. they're probably fine. -- /Simon
From: Simian on 11 Feb 2010 08:11
Simon Wilson wrote: > Simian wrote: > > > Excellent - feature request time: > > > > Notification when a particular person becomes on-line, rather than > > everybodies on/off-ness or none. > > > > Got a valid e-mail addy? Just remove the 'in_valid.' bit from my posting address (in this post, I've just realised that I hadn't updated it back from when my org domain was half inched last year and I had to get the com one). |