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Re: [vmeet] remote presenters without headsets

Adam Montville <adam.w.montville@gmail.com> Fri, 08 April 2016 21:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [vmeet] remote presenters without headsets
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> On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Thomas Watteyne <thomas.watteyne@inria.fr> wrote:
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> +1
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> 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.

Is the sound different for MeetEcho than for, say, WebEx?  I work remotely and use my iPhone-like headphones constantly and haven’t received any complaints.

> 
> 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 <http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-headset-h600> for a year now, works great.
> 
> Thomas
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca <mailto:mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>> wrote:
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> So there are a number of people who presented remotely who for some reason
> think that the:
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>       Use a headset
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> does not apply to them.  The audio from them was almost universally unuseable.
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> 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.
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> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca <mailto:mcr%2BIETF@sandelman.ca>>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
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> _______________________________________
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> Thomas Watteyne, PhD
> Research Scientist & Innovator, Inria
> Sr Networking Design Eng, Linear Tech
> Founder & co-lead, UC Berkeley OpenWSN
> Co-chair, IETF 6TiSCH
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