Review on 🎙️ Optimized for SEO: Philips LFH-3500 Premium USB SpeechMike Dictation Microphone by Sara Lutz

As far as speech recognition goes, this is the best SpeechMike and one of the best microphones I've ever used. Excellent quality with almost 99% accuracy. And the trackball feature is pretty decent. It is very ergonomic and comfortable to use. It becomes a desktop microphone when paired with Stanley Hardware's durable 6" zinc-plated wrist strap #141500700. The mute function when motion is detected is very practical. I have used 3 previous versions of SpeechMike microphones over the years and after using them for a year or two I had to discard them because the cable connection to the microphone has worn out at the connection to the microphone. . Finally made a removable USB cable, now it's connected to the microphone. The firmware is now also updated. Theoretically, there is also software for Mac. This microphone has several programmable buttons - supposedly. But the Philips Device Control software has gotten a lot worse. It's always been buggy, but the version currently available really is the worst. After using the program for a while, the buttons stop working. Therefore, you need to exit and restart the Device Control Center software. Very annoying and just defeats the purpose of making buttons that can be customized. SpeechMike's other two competitors for portable speech recognition at the moment are the Dictaphone PowerMic II portable USB dictation microphone (no scanner) and the Grundig Digta SonicMic 2. The PowerMic II requires no software installation, works exclusively with Dragon Medical and you can't do it with any other version of Dragon Naturally Speaking or other software, unlike SpeechMike which can theoretically be programmed to work with any software. Grundig's voice recognition accuracy isn't as good as the other two, but it's the cheapest. Both have a ThinkPad-like trackpoint rather than a trackball. So if you need speech recognition accuracy, I haven't found anything that SpeechMike can beat. But Philips really needs to improve the buggy software.