When working from home became the norm
"It is recommended to work from home", "do not go out unless necessary", "do not get together, do not gather" are the keywords I often hear. Because of this, working from home has become the norm for many people, and I am the same.
The work had to continue, so our offline friendly conversations with our customers turned into online voice calls. But the echoes from my phone, the noise of home appliances, and the clicking of slippers walking around with my family make me very anxious every time I call, worrying about affecting the call experience or missing some important information.
But there seems to be no other way than to let the family take it easy and hide in the corner for a meeting. Until I experienced the Smyr 360° Noise Reduction Conference Microphone Speaker, it has a high-power speaker, intelligent noise reduction, 360-degree long-distance radio and other functions, making it easier and more efficient to work from home.
Stylish and exquisite exterior design
Although I am not a Virgo, I am indeed a bit picky (without any ill will towards Virgo), especially the things I use regularly, and I will not settle down. When I got the Smyr 360° Noise Reduction Conference Microphone speaker, at least it gave me the first feeling of being right. The weight of the fuselage of about 236g is very textured in the hand, and it does not have the cheap feeling of plastic. And because the whole machine is relatively small, but also comes with a storage bag, very convenient to carry around, if you only use a mobile phone to work, when moving office, carry a mobile phone to put it into the pants pocket, and even do not have to carry an extra bag.
Its appearance structure is similar to a hamburger, divided into three layers, the upper and lower layers are used in a very fashionable woven material, this design also often appears on some high-end home audio, will appear more elegant. The only drawback I can think of is that if the woven material is dirty, it is not easy to clean, and the mental Virgo is really hammered, so this storage bag I think is very necessary, in addition to the storage usually can also play a role in dust protection.
The design of the interface and buttons is also very simple, the front only has a power key and Bluetooth key, and the indicator light is hidden inside the button, including the button at the top of the speaker is also hidden, only when it is opened will be displayed, the whole machine looks more geeky.
It is worth mentioning that the four control keys at the top are actually touch, not button. As you may know, condenser touch works by inducing human current, and requires the human body to work closely with the induction screen, and this 360° noise reduction conference microphone speaker is separated by a layer of woven cloth, and the operation is also very sensitive, which is more surprising to me.
This speaker is also available in light gray and black in color, I personally prefer this light gray, it seems less formal and businesslike, there is a fashionable and petty bourgeois atmosphere in it, placed on their desk or in the conference room, it looks very stylish.
Meeting assistant, well-deserved
I am in the software outsourcing industry, and in layman's terms, what people call programmers. In the work, it is necessary to maintain a high frequency communication function with customers, but since working from home, communication with customers has mostly shifted to online.
In this way, there will be some problems: because the speakers and microphones of computers and mobile phones are uneven in quality, either the sound is small and the customer's words cannot be heard, or the sound is poor, and the customer cannot hear his own words. Helpless to turn off the air conditioner at home, carefully press the keyboard when recording the main points of the meeting, to prevent customers from hearing noise, it seems that slowly have become accustomed to talking and shouting in the throat, light hands and feet to do the action, afraid of some noise, but the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker also really solved these problems for me.
The reason why I say that I hate it is mainly in terms of function. It mainly attracted me to three points: one is real-time speech-to-text recording; the other is intelligent noise reduction, echo cancellation, and vocal gain; and the third is that it can achieve 360° all-round radio + long-distance radio.
This 360° noise-cancelling conference microphone speaker supports both USB and Bluetooth modes. And it also supports NFC fast connection, the use of mobile phones that support NFC can be quickly connected with it, only the first time you connect only need to click to pair, and then when you use it later, you only need to turn on the speaker, the mobile phone NFC aligns the speaker NFC, you can achieve Bluetooth connection, fully meet the needs of efficient work.
First of all, let's talk about real-time voice-to-text recording, if you want to fully play the function of this 360 ° noise-canceling conference microphone speaker, you need to download a "Malk" APP, which provides iOS, Android, macOS, Windows four clients, covering the vast majority of daily work systems, good compatibility.
After experiencing mobile and computer, I personally prefer the computer experience. Especially when communicating with customers, because the formal meeting will involve some development information, so when writing this review (in order to protect the privacy of the customer's father), I found two other friends to simulate the meeting scene and show you its specific functions.
The function of real-time speech to text is available on both the mobile phone side and the computer side, and the semantic recognition of the recording content can be automatically and in real time at the same time, and the sentence is automatically broken and punctuation is added. In fact, the accuracy rate is still very high, but there are some industry terms that are not so accurate, which can not be fully covered by any semantic service agency, the point is that this function is free, and I can't help but praise a living bodhisattva.
I personally like to use the computer side, not only because I am more accustomed to using the computer office, mainly the computer side in the right side of the meeting record there is also a meeting minutes function, after the meeting can directly comb the meeting points and meeting conclusions, the meeting of all the needs mentioned by the customer, bugs one by one record, and saved in the cloud, no need to open other software for synchronous recording, very convenient.
And with a text version of the meeting minutes, after the meeting, you can review the meeting minutes in combination with check whether there are any omissions, so as not to listen to the voice time-consuming and laborious. If you encounter a place where the speech transcription is not clear, you can click on the paragraph and locate the position of the voice to listen back to ensure that it is accurate and very efficient.
Of course, this scene is the use of Tencent conference for the restoration of the online scene, offline internal meetings, only need to put it on the table in the conference room can be directly connected to the computer. It can also mark different speakers according to different voiceprint characteristics, but it can only mark up to 6 speakers, which means that internal meetings are best to completely distinguish between different speakers.
When working from home, do the meeting record keyboard tapping sound, air conditioning noise, family walking noise, etc., compared to the company conference room environment is more noisy, this 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker also has a very good noise reduction ability, in the simulation of the use of the scene with friends, no matter how I type the keyboard, how big the air conditioner is turned on, the family wears slippers to walk around, the other party to give me feedback is not heard any noise, can only hear the sound of my voice, so that the communication experience is a lot more pleasant.
Deep noise reduction, all-round pickup
On the other hand, it also supports 360 ° all-round + long-distance radio, whether I go to the door to get a courier or go to pick up water, the other party can hear clearly. Although the feedback given to me by friends in the test of the simulation scene is quite good, but this is only a personal subjective view, in order to let everyone have a clearer objective feeling, I also simply did 2 tests.
This part is tested by two short videos, first look at the noise reduction ability of the Smyr 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker, turn on the air conditioner in the room, simulate the normal meeting record of the situation of tapping the keyboard, and use my commonly used microphone and the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker placed in the same position for radio, you can click on the video to see the noise reduction effect of this audio.
Through the video we can clearly feel the noise reduction ability of the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker, which can completely block the noise of the air conditioner and keyboard, and the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker is also equipped with a vocal gain algorithm, which can also be felt in the video, and the human voice output through the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker is significantly clearer. Then try it again for 360-degree radio and long-distance radio, the test method is similar to before, 360-degree test, the microphone I used and the 360° noise reduction conference microphone speaker are still in the same position
In the 360-degree test, the back of the microphone I used was far less clear than the 360° noise-cancelling conference microphone speaker. The effect of long-distance testing is more obvious, the sound of the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker at 4 meters is still very clear, and the test is still a relatively professional microphone, and the microphone of the general mobile phone and computer has not yet had this quality.
In general, through the 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker software algorithm and a complete set of radio optimization system composed of 4 microphone arrays, the advantages in practical use are very obvious.
In terms of battery life, I have been using high frequencies for about five or six hours these days, and there are still two blocks of power. And 2000mAh battery capacity, almost two hours can be fully charged, not to mention that it can also be charged while the computer is used, Bluetooth speaker should have the automatic shutdown of this design It can also all meet.
summary
In the process of use in these few days, smyr 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker is too helpful to me, no longer need to tiptoe in meetings at home, you can also automatically transfer text in the meeting, record the content of the meeting. On the whole, the efficiency of communication has been greatly improved than in the past.
Moreover, the price of more than four hundred, in fact, has hidden value, not only the price of hardware, to know that although there is transcribe software on the market now, they are charged by the hour, and the use of 360 ° noise reduction conference microphone speaker to transcribe meeting records is completely free of charge. And it can also be used in interviews, online classes and other fields, so whether it is for regular conference calls or audio recordings, it can greatly improve our work efficiency, very recommended.