Jounivo JV601 USB Desktop Microphone with Gooseneck design Apart from dictation, you can use these microphones for recording, Youtube, Skype, zoom call, webinar, gaming, streaming, interview, ASMR, podcast etc. Please note that these microphones are not arranged in any particular order. We have mentioned best plug and play mics with different features in a wide price range starting from $17. We have compiled a list of microphones which works best with speech recognition or dictation software. However, if you work in a noisy environment and your main purpose is dictation, then Cardioid microphone is a better choice. Omni-directional microphones are suggested for digital voice assistants as it picks up sound equally from all direction and you don’t have to be very near to the microphone in order to give voice command. If you are using a voice command and speech to text software like Braina, then it is suggested to use a good quality microphone with noise cancellation feature to get the optimum speech recognition accuracy. Your pronunciation and background environment noise might be an important factor but 50% of dictation or voice command accuracy actually depends upon your microphone hardware. Quality of microphones play a very important role in speech to text dictation.
