Speakers, Headphones, Earpieces, and More

• 00:04 When you're conducting your video meetings, you're going to have to hear
• 00:08 other people speaking to you, which means you either need active speakers where you
• 00:12 can adjust the volume and hear them or you need an earpiece.
• 00:16 Now the beauty of having an earpiece is the audio quality
• 00:21 on your end will be less distorted for your audience.
• 00:26 Because if you have a microphone and you have speakers on when people are speaking
• 00:31 their sound is going out of your microphone and then back in to the mic.
• 00:36 So that can cause a feedback loop and some distortion.
• 00:39 It's typically okay.
• 00:42 Still for most conferences with colleagues,
• 00:45 with perhaps a client you speak to once a week, but for
• 00:49 a more important online presentation, you want everything just right.
• 00:55 It's better not to have the sound from the speaker going out and
• 00:58 then back into your microphones.
• 01:01 There's a very easy simple tech solution.
• 01:05 You may have seen news anchors with these.
• 01:07 This is an earpiece it clips on the back of my shirt or
• 01:12 jacket and then it just plugs in to the audio out.
• 01:17 This way it's very neat and clean looking because I can have this, behind me.
• 01:22 This sort of snakes around get is just like a news anchor you've seen.
• 01:27 I have it behind me and then I can hear you perfectly and yet it keeps a neat,
• 01:31 clean appearance.
• 01:33 Now, don't get upset, it's not $10,000 I bought this one on Amazon for
• 01:38 $10 and I'm not pushing Amazon or any other brand.
• 01:41 Just find some model, what you need to do is search IFB,
• 01:47 F as in Frank I FB, earpiece, and you will see these and
• 01:52 the $10 version I find for video conferencing is all you need.
• 01:58 You could use the earbuds Apple, the white things I just find that messy looking.
• 02:04 It doesn't look like what a really successful high class
• 02:08 business organization uses, but it's certainly better than nothing.
• 02:13 So keep that in mind.

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