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553-3001-119 Standard 2.00 April 2000
• Headset
• Pentium 150 MHz or higher multimedia PC
• Windows 95/98 or Windows NT operating system
• Full duplex soundcard
• 32 MB RAM
• 10 MB free disk space
• 28.8 kbps modem or better
• Dialup or Ethernet connection
We recommend the USB phone as the speech device for Casual
Telecommuters. While Headsets and sound cards work with the same PC
software, a number of problems have been seen that relate to the users PC and
the usage of sound cards for voice. These events are independent of the IP
Telecommuter application.
The following problems have been noted on various PC's using sound cards
and headsets. The symptoms can appear on similar makes, models and
vintages.
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• electrical noise generated by PC and unfiltered by sound card
• full duplex driver enabled sound card (simplex = push to talk)
• headset microphone adapters may be required to convert to 'stereo'
from 'mono' for certain headsets
• gain (sound level) can be very low, depending upon your sound card