Re: [vmeet] remote presenters without headsets

Thomas Watteyne <thomas.watteyne@inria.fr> Thu, 07 April 2016 21:42 UTC

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+1

I've seen this over and over. I would also warn folks against iPhone-like
headphones with a mic on the wire. It's either too low (and the voice
sounds too low), or held in front of the presenters mouth, in which case
the sound saturates.

Nothing beats a headset with a proper mic-on-a-stick, or whatever you call
that.

I've using http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-headset-h600 for
a year now, works great.

Thomas

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> So there are a number of people who presented remotely who for some reason
> think that the:
>
>       Use a headset
>
> does not apply to them.  The audio from them was almost universally
> unuseable.
>
> I also think that the chairs have not made "send slides early" clear
> enough.
>
> They might as well have not bothered to present at all.
> If headsets are too expensive for some, I will buy them for people.
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
>
>
>


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