In my experience, this entire process took 4-5 minutes.

After Windows installs the drivers, calibrate the mic.

Plugin the mic and wait for the installation of the drivers, which should happen automatically.

It was a plug 'n play process and worked without any hitches. In my experience, installing the microphones listed here was simple.

Installation, Training, and Calibration on a Windows Machine

If you are a button minimalist, just program one button for F2. $45.00 Sound Tech GN-USB-2 18 Inch Professional Uni-Direction Noise Canceling Gooseneck Stereo Microphoneįor Michigan Medicine colleagues, if you have the Dragon Nuance microphone, this will still work. It would work well in an office or staff room or any other secure location. But be mindful of security issues in open settings. Sennheiser Consumer Audio SC 660 USB ML (504553) - Double-Sided Business Headset $147 Sennheiser Headset Noise-Cancelling Microphone (sounds, better if you need to listen to audio) $65 Sennheiser is a well-known microphone company. NOTE : UM Michigan Medicine HITS (our IT team) does not officially support alternatives to the Phillips SpeechMike™. If a link to Amazon is not available, please try searching for a similar product. USB Microphone alternatives to the Phillips SpeechMikeĭisclosures : I am not endorsing, selling, or have any financial relationships to disclose for these products. But it is expensive ($300+).īecause I do not need the array of programmable buttons on this expensive mic, and most importantly, because I wanted to dictate hands-free, I searched for other mic options.įor Mac users, please note Fluency is not available for you and me, so that is a bummer. With the switch to Fluency, I tried the Phillips SpeechMike Premium Dictation Microphone. I observed comparable speech accuracy to the Phillips SpeechMike Premium Dictation Microphone. Both worked well on my work Windows computer with our EHR, Epic. In this post, I list the two mics that I tried. Michigan Medicine is retiring phone-based dictation and Dragon and transitioning to Cloud-based 3M ™ Fluency Direct in February 2021. The beginning: Michigan Medicine launches Fluency

Two alternative corded USB options to the Phillips SpeechMike that worked well using University of Michigan (UM) Michigan Medicine Core Imaged Windows computers

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