Wireless Mic Calibration

If you’re using a MacBook Pro or iMac computer, you could use the computer’s internal microphone. It works okay if you are sitting directly in front of the laptop, but it falters the farther you are from the screen. We need the mobility of being able to converse with our home while walking around, watching TV, making breakfast in the kitchen, or cleaning the living room. This will be accomplished by using a wireless microphone.

For a wireless microphone to reliably work with the Mac’s speech recognizer, it needs to be a decent quality wireless mic with clear audio signal transmission. A mic that delivers crackling, hissing audio won’t work too well because the speech recognizer will struggle to distinguish between ...

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