Headsets

Caher said:

Whilst cycling to work this morning it occurred to me that I could do
some of the routine tasks like paying my bills etc using a phone
headset – has anyone tried to use one while cycling?

IME wind noise tends to be a problem with most mobile phone mikes when
on the move

Tony

Tony Raven said:

Caher said:

Whilst cycling to work this morning it occurred to me that I could do
some of the routine tasks like paying my bills etc using a phone
headset – has anyone tried to use one while cycling?

IME wind noise tends to be a problem with most mobile phone mikes when
on the move

Not to mention the heavy breathing down the phone.

Kennedy

Tony Raven <[email hidden]> wrote:

: IME wind noise tends to be a problem with most mobile phone mikes when
: on the move

I'll second this. I've answered my mobile while riding at 20mph (with
both hands off the bars to fiddle with it [1]), and it was very hard to
have a sensible conversation.

Arthur

[1] Don't try this at home, kids.

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Arthur Clune wrote:
I've answered my mobile while riding at 20mph (with

Quoted message said:

both hands off the bars to fiddle with it [1]), and it was very hard to
have a sensible conversation.

Quoted message said:

[1] Don't try this at home, kids.

Why not? Seems much safer than trying it on the road. :-)

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:07:36 +1100, Caher wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Whilst cycling to work this morning it occurred to me that I could do
some of the routine tasks like paying my bills etc using a phone
headset – has anyone tried to use one while cycling?

The wind noise makes them unusable, even if you're on a route (such as
your riverside one) with no motor traffic.

I thought it would be a good idea too...

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Ross, in Lincoln
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Ross Hamilton said:

The wind noise makes them unusable, even if you're on a route (such as
your riverside one) with no motor traffic.

I thought it would be a good idea too...

Unusable? Well, not totally. I've held quite long conversations in
this way, but it does require a certain amount of patience on both sides
- you have to be prepared to repeat yourself and not travel too fast,
and the other party has to be prepared to put up with a 'bad line'
(wind/traffic noise) and perhaps be attuned to your voice - just about
ok for talking to someone you know well when you have to do it and don't
want to stop. But I agree that if you were trying to deal with banks
and utility co. call centres etc they'd probably just tell you to call
back on a better line - or you'd have to stop to deal with the call,
which defeats the idea.

Rich

Tony Raven said:

IME wind noise tends to be a problem with most mobile phone mikes when
on the move

We use voice recognition for the internal phone book at work. It
doesn't cope with external noise very well, even from a caller inside a car.

Amusingly, during trials someone started swearing at it. "Did you want
Phil Luck?", it replied...

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:52:54 +0000, Richard Goodman wrote in
<1110819189.142c7e97a79d2ac38a21e6eb3b70ef6f@teranews>, seen in
uk.rec.cycling:

Quoted message said:

Ross Hamilton said:

The wind noise makes them unusable, even if you're on a route (such as
your riverside one) with no motor traffic.

I thought it would be a good idea too...

Unusable? Well, not totally.

I found that mine was. But then I'm in Windsville UK here... ;-)

Quoted message said:

I've held quite long conversations in
this way, but it does require a certain amount of patience on both sides
- you have to be prepared to repeat yourself and not travel too fast,
and the other party has to be prepared to put up with a 'bad line' [...]

Unfortunately at the time the other party (or at least the one whose
calls were most important) was liable to be on a line that was not
merely bad but downright awful at the best of times.

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Ross, in Lincoln
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Kennedy Fraser said:

Not to mention the heavy breathing down the phone.

Well don't phone those sorts of phone numbers then ;-)

Tony