>> I don't mind spending more for better results.
>> I tried looking into the Sennheiser headset offered by
>> emicrophones.com but the vendor refuses to tell me the acutal model
>> number of the product and promises that he makes a couple custom
>> modifications (which makes me nervous) to make it useable (makes me
>> scheptical)
> You should be skeptical. However, I pointed out to you many times that
> the Sennheiser Headset that we sell was not designed for speech
> recognition. Knowing the model number is irrelevant because without
> the proper modifications it will not work well if at all for speech
> recognition. Therefore, with the modifications it is irrelevant what
> started out as.

> I dealt with you in an evasive manner because you raised several red
> flags. Among these were:
> "P.S. I have purchased a headset from you in the past.  I am
> completely satisfied with it and would do so again.  In that case,
> your price was a little higher than elsewhere but I wanted to deal
> with someone who knew the product, not just an "order taker"
> I responded to you that our prices are the lowest on almost all our
> products and that I could not find your name in the database as a
> customer. You responded, "My appologies.  I just looked up the
> invoice.  It was microphones.com (hey I at least got part of the name
> right).

> In addition, your on repeated insistence to tell you the product name
> when it was not relevant was as if you were asking me to your work. As
> a matter of fact, I told you if you read the web page for the product
> they would be clues for how to find the model number. In addition, in
> the next to last post, I actually mentioned the model number in
> passing. You just glossed over it. You just want easy answers. There
> are many people who know what the model number is and there are even
> people who know what the modifications are. However, I worked hard to
> figure it out and people who press me for the answers raise those red
> flags. As a matter of fact when you accused me of being evasive, I
> politely pointed you to another dealer who sells this microphone. You
> glossed over that as well.

> Yes, you were refused. Perhaps you need to look at yourself for the
> reason why.

>> I have a USB pod (Andrea), a dual 2.6mhz xeon machine running XP pro
>> with 1gb ram and ample HDD space.
> A USB sound pod is a good audio input device for many microphones.
> However, certain microphones benefit from other USB pod's as the gain
> of the microphone matches the gain of the USB pod. Again, a case of
> testing and research to provide the best solutions for speech
> recognition.

> It is well known that dual processor computers very often run poorer
> than single processor units unless the computer software is designed
> for dual processors. Speech recognition software available today is
> designed for single processor computers.

> --
> Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
> The best microphones for Speech Recognition
> See us at: http://www.eMicrophones.com/index.asp
> Read, "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy" at:
> http://www.emicrophones.com/docDetails.asp?DocumentID=38