I was suggesting a "phone-less" solution. Our Polycom phone has a headphone
jack and mic input jack that can be plugged directly into the computer's
headphone and mic jacks. I believe this is standard across most polycom
phones now.
We have a: Polycom® SoundStation2™
Hope this helps!
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Aaron
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Karen Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Aaron, do you know if these require digital or analog phone lines? That's
> another problem we ran into was an incompatibility in that respect. Thanks.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Aaron Zirbes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Newer polycom phones can be used as just a mic and speaker setup.
>> On Oct 20, 2011 3:22 PM, "Karen Anderson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hopefully this is a good place to ask this question and I apologize if it
>>> is not.
>>>
>>> We conducted our first UMConnect staff meeting today with people at two
>>> locations. Our weakest link is the microphone. We had a multidirectional
>>> microphone (rather old) and unless people actually held it and talked right
>>> into it, the sound was not good enough for the remote sites. This would work
>>> if it were just a few people but we have a long table with seats for 14 and
>>> so it wasn't possible to reach the microphone from one end of the table to
>>> another.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest a good microphone, to use with a MAC, for a conference
>>> room (not huge but not small either), preferably a USB connector? We want a
>>> really powerful one that will pick up voices all around the table. We have
>>> another meeting next week where we will be videoconferencing, so I was
>>> hoping to maybe purchase something before Thursday.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>>
>
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