Philips LFH3500 SpeechMike Premium USB Dictation Microphone Precision Control Push Buttons Operation via Push Buttons Charcoal

I use Dragon dictation 13 and the difference this makes over the handset supplied is phenomenal. I had a little problem setting up on one machine and Phillips Customer Support were extremely quick to resolve my issue. This was not full of the equipment but a mistake I'd made in installing the handset.

I'm very disappointed as it was faulty when it was arrived, waiting for it be returned, and a replacement before the final judgement

Tolles Produkt, kann es nur weiterempfohlen. Riesen Boost für die Produktivität, egal wie schnell man sonst tippt. Erkennt sehr zuverlässig das Gesagte und viele Individualisierungsmöglichkeiten. Dazu empfehle ich die Software Dragon, die es für verschiedene Spezialbereiche gibt (bei mir Medizin). Die Verkäufer sind auch nett und sind auch bei Fragen da :)

WORKS WELL AS ADVERTISED

Parfait ! Rien à ajouter, sauf que c'est moins cher que chez Philips.

I previously purchased the Grundig Digta SonicMic - the direct competitor to the Philips SpeechMike. The Grundig SonicMic, was great, high quality German construction. It worked well. But I eventually decide to give this Philips SpeechMike a try. I'm glad I did. It seems built specifically for voice to text dictation, the ergonomics are great, it feels good in the hands, and the buttons and trackball are pretty responsive The only drawback, and this does irritate me, is the Philips control program that you need to install in order to really effectively use the microphone. It is slightly glitchy, but only slightly on my Windows 10 core i7 machine. It also keeps trying to update itself for the Internet, and try as hard as I can I cannot disable that feature. That irritates me. But the microphone itself is rocksolid, I haven't decided if I like it better than the Grundig Digta SonicMic, but I will say the Philips SpeechMike LFH-3500 is a very high quality and well-made microphone. If your budget permits it, then it is probably the best handheld that you'll find. If budget is an issue they go for the Grundig, because it seems to perform almost as well as the Philips, but at a lower price-point. if you are purchasing this to use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, or the built-in Windows speech to text feature, it will work very well. At the end of the day, dictation is mostly about your elocution, and voice delivery. The hardware is just what gives it that extra edge, in terms of accuracy. If you have not trained yourself to be a precise in your dictation then the hardware won't help you very much. But if you can get the skill of dictation itself down, reliably, then hardware like this can definitely help you get an extra edge.

Have been using SpeechMike for work, so it was natural to get one form work-from-home use so that I could maintain the same capability at home compared to at work. Works well out of the box with all the documentation enclosed. All the buttons as well as speech recording & recognition were in good order.