Philips LFH3500 SpeechMike Premium USB Dictation Microphone Precision Microphone Push Button Control

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.

My husband uses this for medical dictation. He absolutely loves it. He has a very old one that you had to “train” in order for it to get used to your speech patterns. This one rarely makes an error, and was ready to use right out of the box. He says the microphone quality is superb (again, compared to an old model) and it was well worth the price.

Expensive, but worth every penny. I switched to a handheld mic for use with my Dragon Medical, and these work great. The built-in mouse control on the mic is genius, as it means I don't have to keep putting it down and picking it up, if I make a correction in another section. I cannot yet comment on the longevity, but having used other Philips products going back decades, I expect it to last a long time.

I purchased this product before I purchased a new computer. When my old Mac was running OS12 the product worked well. On Ventura, (OS13) it is non functional. It inserts additional words and has about 50% accuracy. I have contacted Philips and have been talking to them for about a month. On the website, they don't have a driver for OS 13. They sent me instructions for a Windows computer for the same problem, but of course those instructions didn't work because I have a Mac. They told me to contact Apple. I have an Olympus and a Yeti Nano which work with my dictation software even after the upgrade to Ventura, but not the Philips. What a huge waste of money and time. I wish that Philips supported their products.

I currently use windows seven and my operating system, and DragonDictate professional version 12 latest upgrade. This microphone works great and is much better than the headset I was using previously. I really like the controls, I don't have to yell into my microphone for to pick up my speech. The number of errors made by Dragon has gone down significantly since I switched to this microphone. I would highly recommend it. I did a lot of research into the different microphones and am very happy that I did because this works great. One of the biggest complaints about many of these handheld microphones is at the core tends to wear out with time. The nice thing about this Philips microphone is that the cord actually plugs into the microphone and can be replaced if it breaks without having to replace the entire microphone.

Works ok not sure if fully compatible for power scribe

Worked fine until I did the recommended software upgrade that seemed to destroy the mic. Phillips won't even respond to e-mails to remedy the problem. The mic may be ok, but the customer support is horrible.

A doctor uses this all the time for their charts. She loves it…. She has never asked me about it, therefore it must be user friendly. You just use it to its first capacity.

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.

Pas de paramétrage à faire, vous branchez et ça fonctionne. Très bon filtre de bruits parasites

Works well for dictation and light weight.