Review on 🎧 Enhance Your Audio Experience with the seeed studio ReSpeaker USB Mic Array by Marcos Fiallo

Haven't tried it with hardware (yet), mostly used "out of the box" (except for changing the firmware to the next higher gain I think?). Worked the first time (shows up as a regular USB audio device used in MacOs and Linux/ChromeOS) and compared to a 'regular' Frontier USB condenser mic day and night! The speaker can be placed virtually *anywhere* in a 15 x 15 foot room, and the ReSpeaker will pick up audio loud and clear with no speaker feedback. The beamformer distorts the tuning tone a bit, but it's not a studio microphone anyway (at least not with "standard" hardware). It's fantastic for conversation, and I haven't even tried to tweak the placement (e.g. it's only close to the wall on one side and about 1ft from the speaker, but it doesn't seem to bother him at all) . In short, pretty impressed so far! Edit: I should add that for the echo cancellation component to work properly, it's important to route the audio *also* through the ReSpeaker (and then route out from the ReSpeaker line, e.g. the latest external speakers). With this reference signal, the DSP ReSpeaker can of course estimate exactly how much of the recorded sound is actually coming from the speakers. If this routing isn't possible, you can still use the ReSpeaker as a great beamformer, but consider enabling echo cancellation elsewhere. What may or may not work. For example, Google Meet generally works well in my experience, but Zoom sucks for some reason (maybe because I haven't *actually* turned off the echo canceller on ReSpeaker, and Zoom's echo canceller can't handle the latency -- obviously that any echo canceller introduces a small, albeit tiny, latency, which is also one of the reasons you generally shouldn't have more than one in your audio chain). First guess anyway (if it helps anyone) but I didn't investigate further because. I didn't need it for my setup. :)