Review on Bluetooth Speakerphone EMeet Professional Cancellation by Desiree Orr

I bought this product specifically for voice to text. I'm hard of hearing and one context where it's extremely difficult to communicate is in group conversations. Any group conversation... People tend to talk over each other and who is speaking changes faster than I can look for facial expression cues and read faces (as opposed to lip reading). In such situations, I cannot follow the conversation without the help of technology. I use voice-to-text apps to help, but the mics I currently have have a very short pickup range (which is good), which is useful when I just want voice-to-text from someone holding the microphone, or where I'm pointing. said the microphone. However, I needed a long-range microphone with a 360-degree audio pickup range that could intelligently filter out background noise and background chatter. The conference mics seemed to fit the bill, but from what I had read I knew they were only for small tables. I was always looking for something that could work flexibly with both small tables and large tables. I saw a comment on another emeet product saying that this device, the emeet 220, was coming soon and would allow two devices to be daisy chained. I contacted the manufacturer and they sent me the manual, mind you that was before the product was released, I was really impressed that they were willing to do this. Looking through the manual, I decided this product is worth trying for its flexibility and AI capabilities. Emeet has another product, N1, which has its own software, cloud storage, and speech-to-text processing capabilities, including automatically labeling speakers like "[name][message]". It looked cool, but I don't agree with a subscription, and speaker labeling only works with two speakers and requires learning for each session. I already have a few voice and text solutions that I use comfortably, and I really don't want to bother with devices that are tied to a subscription. Also, I felt like there were likely newer/further improvements to the hardware and AI with this new device received. I got E Meet 220 the night before a local TedX talk in my town. I decided to take it with me and christen it with fire. I used it during my lunch break, they had a huge conference room with lots of tables, easily over 20 tables easily exceeding 400 participants. So it was a very challenging environment for any microphone and I have to say I was really impressed with the emeet 220. It was impressively good at accommodating people around my large 8ft round table. I was only able to use one that day, I couldn't turn on one unit for some reason, I don't know why, but even then it worked impressively well. I mounted it directly onto a glass vase containing only stones. For the first time in my life I was able to take part in a group discussion in such an environment. Before that, I could only have one-on-one conversations in such a noisy environment. The AI on these mics did an excellent job of massaging the audio input, allowing the voice-to-text apps I use to translate speech to text much more accurately. I've used it at extended family meals ever since. My house has a very large living room and terrible acoustics. I placed the two devices as close to the center of the living room as possible (picture shown) and was able to capture everyone in the room very well. I was particularly impressed that it still worked well when someone was talking directly between the two devices. I was concerned that there might be dubbing or strange sound effects, but the voice-to-text software showed no such effect. I'll need to record audio in the future to be sure, but so far it's been a dream to be able to access a group conversation with relative painlessness because I don't have to try to enforce rules one speaker at a time when using the other mics I have actually only ever worked with one person at a time. I was very impressed with the bluetooth connection. I was across the room when I passed the bluetooth to the Emeet 220 and didn't notice any disconnects. That being said, I probably wouldn't know if it was Emeet, a voice-to-text app, or an internet connection if it were. So tests are yet to come, but first impressions have been brilliant. I have yet to test the conferencing features, but will update this review when I get the chance.