Most built-in laptop microphones are fairly ordinary, sound qualitywise. The USB Mic Pro aims to help you in this area by giving you a plug-in USB mic with a few options. To start with it has an internal omni-directional microphone on top of the dongle. There’s also an external 3.5mm mic jack for a long range mic and a headphone output so you can hear what you’re recording. Also pretty useful if the built-in mic or headphone jack on your laptop stops working I suppose. Works with USB 1.1 or 2. $US79.

“The smallest, professional model high-sensitivity high-gain USB microphone available!” Our newest choice for court reporters, students, business people, voice recognition purposes, Skype communication, VOIP and Podcasting – anyone that needs to get high quality audio into a computer!

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