Sound Tech GN-USB-2 18 Inch Professional Uni-Direction Noise Canceling Gooseneck Stereo Microphone with 10 FT USB Cord

I have found Sound Tech GN-USB-2 18 Inch Professional Uni-Direction Noise Canceling Gooseneck Stereo Microphone to be very accurate with my Dragon Naturally Speaking software, version 16! I purchased another USB microphone that did not work as efficiently as this microphone. I have been absolutely pleased with the accuracy of this microphone. I highly recommend purchasing it for users of Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software! I wrote this review using this microphone with Dragon NaturallySpeaking!

decent mic for my dragon dictation software. a bit glitchy for sensitivity but overall, for the price, works fine

I'm no recording pro or audiophile, but this mic sounds great to me, whether I'm right up on it, or 1 foot away, if I'm in a reasonably quiet room.The base is wide and heavy enough that there's no chance of it tipping over even when extended out as far as possible. The base is pretty large though. I think they could have made it smaller and just added some more weight to compensate.The base is also taller than I feel is necessary. Maybe it's to make room for the electronics, but it doesn't feel like there's much inside. The top of the base, where the end of the gooseneck plugs in is almost 2 inches high. It's not the end of the world, but still, I wish it was flatter so it wasn't as noticeable sitting on my desk.The mic connects with what looks like a standard XLR connector in the base, so you can quickly disconnect the mic, or disconnect the USB cord from the base if you need to move it out of the way when you're not using it.Only the ends are flexible goose-neck - the middle is a solid straight piece, making it slightly less "flexible" in positioning, but it's not really a problem, it's just not what I was expecting. I guess you can tell if you look at the picture.I agree with other reviewers about the red light. The mute button lights up red to let you know that the mic is open, which is fine, but there's also a red ring on the mic itself. It might be useful if you're with other people, so they can see when your mic is open, I guess, but I found it too distracting. But I guess it's nice that it's there in case someone does need it - if you don't want it, all you have to do is cover it up with some electrical tape.

Once I figured out a significant technical issue with the help of the seller's product support team (who thought you could even find such an animal today?), this product has worked quite well with my Dragon professional version 15. I'm using it now in fact dictating from approximately 8 inches away in an office with some minor background air conditioning noise and an open door to the hallway with a few people talking outside. When I first plugged it in I could not figure out why the mute button failed to activate or inactivate the dictation. I had to use the Dragon toolbar. And things were not working quite as well as I had hoped. But the support technician raised the possibility another audio device was running in the background. I knew I had inactivated my original USB headphone (a pretty good one). But it turns out the laptop's built-in audio (for built-in video or whatever) was still activated. I think what was happening was Dragon was using it rather than the microphone. Since I have deactivated the onboard audio the microphone is worked fine and the mute button mutes and un-mutes perfectly well. I like the bright red button because it reminds me when someone walks in my office to turn off the microphone so I don't dictate our conversation into the document I am drafting. All and all I am very happy. My previous wired headset had worked fine but it was cumbersome to use. I had to take it off or remember to use the Dragon toolbar to turn off the system any time someone walked in to my office or I got a phone call. Which happens dozens of times a day. Hitting the mute button on this microphone is much easier. And as far as I can tell the sound quality and accuracy of the dictation is at least as good as with my $225 headset.

I was hoping that this microphone would produce better speech to text dictation than my old 15 year-old microphone, but it did not so I’m returning it

I use this with Dragon Naturally Speaking 15. It works pretty good and is more cost effective than some of the other "high end" table mics people recommend for speech to text.I read 1000 words to test it and got about 99% accuracy. I think I was with in 4" when I did that. A few of the mistakes were my fault. It works best when you are close (like 4-8" away). I've found it can still function alright up to 3 get away but loses some accuracy. Do note that since I was conscious of the fact that I was testing the mic I paid more than the usual attention to my enunciation. In daily use I'm less precise so the real world accuracy is lower (though I wouldn't say that that is the mics fault).I would not recommend this for voice calls as it sounds subpar unless you are directly on top of it. It also has some static noise when on high sensitivity (which I assume dragon algorithmically filters out so it's a non issue for speech to text). Additionally this mic would not work in a noisy environment as it picks up background noise relatively easily. I've been using it in my room as I've been working from home due to COVID.The mic length is good and will work for most people. In retrospect I wish I had purchased a table mic with an adjustable length mic so I could make it longer when I sit back in my chair but the ones that I looked at that had that feature were a lot more expensive.In all fairness I don't have another table mic to compare this to but I'm satisfied with my 99% accuracy for under $100.