Re: [vmeet] remote presenters without headsets

Meetecho IETF support <ietf@meetecho.com> Sun, 10 April 2016 17:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [vmeet] remote presenters without headsets
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> Is the sound different for MeetEcho than for, say, WebEx?

It is not. iPhone headset should work just fine - we use them regularly. 
Running the self-test should help in tuning the capture level when using 
a browser which doesn't have AGC capabilities.

Cheers,
the Meetecho team

Il 08/04/2016 23:20, Adam Montville ha scritto:
>
>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Thomas Watteyne
>> <thomas.watteyne@inria.fr <mailto:thomas.watteyne@inria.fr>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> +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.
>
> 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 for a
>> year now, works great.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Michael Richardson
>> <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca <mailto: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
>> <mailto:mcr%2BIETF@sandelman.ca>>, Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6
>> IoT consulting =-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- _______________________________________
>>
>> Thomas Watteyne, PhD Research Scientist & Innovator, Inria Sr
>> Networking Design Eng, Linear Tech Founder & co-lead, UC Berkeley
>> OpenWSN Co-chair, IETF 6TiSCH
>>
>> www.thomaswatteyne.com <http://www.thomaswatteyne.com/>
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