81–90 of 285 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely reads as a personal project and not one claiming a superior solution (“People can hear me gulp”)
> People can hear me gulp it's already bad enough hearing people slurping/gulping with normal mics, this mic sounds horrible.
One of the most Hacker News articles ever written. A bad solution (wearing a choker) to a self-generated problem (using Arch) that costs a lot of money. In summary: this generates more problems than it solves (unless you're a navy seal).
Part of this is video chat applications insisting on VOX operation for the most part, leading to the totally unnecessary “you’re muted” problem. Push-to-talk is an afterthought in many of these products, but it’s absolutely the correct UX to avoid most of these problems.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking forward to the post when you get Doom to run on it. :)
So, just the audio then.
I should write up my solution using a parabolic dish that focuses sound from a relatively small zone where my head (usually) is, into a good cheap mic. You get good isolation (even from keyboard sounds) requires nothing on your head or throat, and ... physics! (You just need to accept a big dish in your field of view, and you also can't pace, walk around, as with bluetooth solutions.)
I thought this was a satire. It looks like this is not. I like the fact that the author loves experimentation and tried this setup. I'm someone who still thinks Apple has not even solved the design of the AirPods/Pro. So, anything else that makes us like "Batman with a utility belt" is something I would find a more aesthetic alternative. For most of the video call needs, I have tried boom/condenser and XLR microphone…
Could they be listening to something?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely reads as a personal project and not one claiming a superior solution (“People can hear me gulp”)
I disagree, the article is proclaiming them to be a good solution: > Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using) I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim here and does the reader a disservice by not even attempting to back up this claim with a recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_eI9ungGE&t=228s I'll just go ahead and say it…
I'm sure the dynamic mic sounds better than the troat mic, but this is not a fair comparison. Every mic sounds terrible through such a radio link.
Antlion ModMic Wireless looks nice. I'm using the usb version with my wired headset. I'd really like a proper bluetooth dongle to combine wired microphone with wired headset. But that's almost impossible, because transmitting voice over bluetooth means the receiving audio switches to a very crappy codec. A dongle could theoretically present 2 bluetooth devices, one for audio and one for voice, but I'm not sure a phone or computer would play nice with that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely reads as a personal project and not one claiming a superior solution (“People can hear me gulp”)
I disagree, the article is proclaiming them to be a good solution: > Throat mics are an improvement over a standalone wired microphone (if that’s what you are using) I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim here and does the reader a disservice by not even attempting to back up this claim with a recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5_eI9ungGE&t=228s I'll just go ahead and say it…
>I'll go as far to say that the author is making a completely false claim
It's an opinion, they are neither true nor false. It's fair to disagree with it though.
Tomatoes are the best vegetable. Opinion. I'm sure I'll get plenty of disagreements and even some reminding me that a tomato is actually a fruit.
On Bluetooth audio issues: try switching from PulseAudio to PipeWire; it’s better in every way now save perhaps for one or two remaining tiny niches, and pipewire-pulse lets it act as a drop-in replacement for pulseaudio. The usual installation experience is completely uneventful: you install it, restart your session, and everything works at least as well as before. On the throat mic itself: what does it sound like?…
I did! Pipewire is working awesome -- I'm using pipewire-pulseaudio actually, there's a package on arch that IIRC bridges the two so I can use pavucontrol etc.
> On the throat mic itself: what does it sound like? I need a sample. I’m having difficulty finding any not-obviously-bad audio samples (e.g. not recording the microphone, but rather the output of a speaker after radio transmission!).
Just put up a I'm going to put one up right now -- just updated the blog and it's deploying, should be up within 3 min or so.
> From the impressions I’m getting, I’d be surprised if “not detectable” was accurate—rather, people are used to lousy audio and are not likely to comment on it unless you ask them or it’s just too bad. But yeah, I’d rather like a sample to judge myself.
This definitely might have been the case, but the friend I was talking with I most certainly have run bad audio by before -- so he's seen worse and better.