Microphone Selection Guide: Our Rating System
Comparing microphones is a difficult task as objective criteria for such comparisons are difficult if not impossible to develop. Further complicating matters is the likely variability of microphones based on dictation environment, user voice qualities, dictation style, and computer. What we have used to develop our rating for each microphone is admittedly somewhat subjective and is based on a series of factors, including:
We will provide relative rating of microphones using a scale of 1-5, shown visually as follows:
Fair | Excellent |
*Our true "proving ground" for the quality of a microphone is our experience on a busy and noisy hospital ward. In significantly quieter environments the differences between microphones can be expected to be somewhat less.
**Specifically, we have taken into account recommendations provided on-line by knowbrainer and emicrophones