My mom has a very weak voice- is the microphone noise-cancelling, or just the headphones?
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The microphone is. She may need to place the mic close to her lips, with a weak voice, in order to be heard.
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My husband is a truck driver, so there is always a lot of noise. Since I got him this headset, I can hear him much better, it often sounds like he is in the next room. If your mom has a weak voice, this might be good, just make sure the microphone is closer to her mouth. And make sure if you have one, your volume is up on your end.
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How does it sound when talking with others ? If there are no problems talking w/others ? It can be your moms phone or she is not holding the phone in the right position ..
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The microphone blocks nearly 100% of background noise. If your mom is very soft spoken and the sound around her is louder than her voice this might not work for her. Road King has designed their microphone headsets for truckers that have noisy rigs. I work around airports but my voice is strong the road king 400 works perfect for me.
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I think both. My boyfriend uses it while truck driving and we can both hear each other great.
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There's no active noise canceling. The cups are large and soft, so they do some small amount of noise isolation. Plus with how terribly boomy they are you'll end up overpowering most outside noise anyway, other than the cord rubbing on your clothing.
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I bought this for my Mother but from what I gather from her it is just amplification.
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No Noise cancellation and they are insufficient to keep out the noise while watching a movie on the plane. The headphones were great except for that, so I returned them. I tried the Sennheisers But they were very poor noise cancelling and the V-Moda which were excellent except they were "noise-lowering" or some such thing and kept no noise out. After buying and returning all of these, I went back to my Bose Quiet Comfort 15's which were still the best of the bunch. I will wait for the next gen which will be noise cancelling AND bluetooth.
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I can confirm Jeffrey's response. Also there is no need to use the noise-canceling feature when listening to audio.
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It depends on what settings you have set to your computer. I'd definitely recommend headphones or disabling real-time playback of what the mic picks up.
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there is not active noise cancellation while listening that i have noticed. i do not use the microphone function, so i cannot speak to that.
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The noise is quite low, almost inaudible. On a rare occasion, she got a little louder, but nothing too terrible in all honesty. The output for games has also been rather nice if you're currently stuck with internal graphics.
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I think so. My hearing is somewhat compromised. So I have the speaker on my ear and raise the volume somewhat My wife can hear it when I am listening, though she can't understand what is being broadcast. She is about 2 feet from the speaker. If your mother was about 6 inches to a foot I think she could understand what is being said.
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Sorry, can't help in that regard, I only use it in a home setting.But I will comment that I'm in the process of getting a second replacement under warranty and have little confidence in the product. My Plantonics headset is over 10 years old and still functions, but isn't quite as accurate.
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This is not a headset with speakers. It only has a microphone that uses noise cancelation.
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They do not cancel out background noise, you can hear other people's conversation clearly if your volume is low enough
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Not that I'm aware of. The noise cancelling is more for the microphone than the speakers.
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Haven't used the microphone yet. It's integrated on the ear bud line. I can't believe there's any noise cancelling. The sound on the ear buds is great. I've been using the buds to listen to audiobooks.
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No, they aren't, if im listening to music at a moderate level and my clustermates are talking, i can faintly hear their voices. Although, if you turn up the volume, it should cancel them. But to answer your question straight out, no they are NOT noise canceling.
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No, it is not noise canceling. You will hear everything going on in the room while wearing the headphones. No mic
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There is a mic and it doesn't work really well with hearing though I can say that after using it for chat on Skype, Yahoo, Gmail, and on my mobile phone... That the quality of my voice is not very good. No matter how I hold the mic up to my mouth in any angle that I can, it doesn't change the quality besides being louder when my mouth is closer. The mic is attached to the wire, it isn't attached to the headpiece itself. As for listening quality though, it is worth it and has an amazing noise-reduction.