I read your book and learned a lot! With this review, you just saved me a lot of money. Thank you. Gary Poole

Thank you so much. I am set up in the office, wired with a high quality headset, but am now working from home because of the pandemic. I was wondering precisely about this issue. I have to buy another headset (workplace is locked). Your video is helped me decide to go with the wired option.

Really useful video, thanks Scott. I've been using Dragon voice recognition software for several years now being a disabled person and always get the Plantronics Bluetooth headset but they drive me insane. Not only does the very cheap hook that goes over the ear snap after a few months of use, it endlessly stops pairing. Lost count of how many times I've had to close everything down, restart my computer when it glitch or keep removing the USB dongle and pair headset all over again - probably every other day

THANKS MR BAKER I APPRECIATE YOUR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

Question: I like to pace and talk. I don't want to sit down while dictating, so how should I best do this?

Thanks! Good to know!

Very helpful Scott thank you.

I'm looking at the "Dragon Bluetooth Wireless Headset", which looks like the one you have there, to use with Dragon Anywhere (the mobile version". How different/better is it from the mics in a smartphone/tablet? If at all? What I'd like is something to take quick notes walking around, maybe to push the button to bring the focus to the dictation app with the mic live, and just talk into it without necessarily even looking at it--then cleaning up the rough notes later. For the mic to be working in Dictation mode unless a phone call comes in, just like Bluetooth audio usually playing audiobooks or music unless a call comes in. For the result to be "most of the words and most of the punctuation". I can't use Dragon on my computer since they withdrew Mac support. I can't use an earlier version, because macOS is making everything consistently 64-bit, which presumably means that older versions will stop working.

Can you tell me if a Bluetooth bone conduction headphone that has a microphone built into it would work adequately?

thanks for the advise and saving me a lot of expense

What’s your experience/thoughts on Bluetooth dragon handheld microphones? I m family doctor and was thinking of getting one?

What is your experience with built in microphones, say the surface pro?

Excellent and honest video, you should also mention the EMF especially from the new 5G - combined with Bluetooth gives you a low frequency cancer causing radiation antenna in your ear..

Joey Shmoey has already posted 1 years ago reply addressing Scott Baker's book bluetooth headset advice being outdate then and now [10/12/2020] Nobody should or would argue against a hardwired headset for Dragon dictation as being the best choice, eventhough not always a practical one for some job applications. I posted on his KZfaq Bluetooth headsets for DRAGON because Scott's post hadn't consider jobs were only a Bluetooth headset is the only practical use for using the DRAGON dictation features. I used a Corsair bluetooth headset with DRAGON V.12 back in 2015 for doing Estate inventory in which one needs to be able to walk through rooms and Dictate items and amounts quickly Obviously because Estates can have thousands of items to appraise and inventory. Because the battery life on the headset has since become useless and because it isn't replaceable by conventional means I need a new wireless headset. But when it was working it worked with about 95 % accuracy. Used in Excel and WORD with the commands tab and next line working well. I know others who use it their warehouse inventory also. [NOTE: It worked better in MS WORD than Excel and so I often would dictate the inventory list into WORD and then Copy Paste it into an Excel spread sheet to tally items in categories. With Technology advances there are lots of bluetooth headsets capable of working well with DRAGON. I believe most below $100.00 would work just fine. Although I do agree with Scott on getting a headset with its own Bluetooth dogle will always be the best choice.