From SCDigest's OnTarget e-Magazine

- Oct. 17, 2012 -

RFID and Auto ID News: Supply Chain Tech Note - Vocollect's New Voice Headset Applies Smart Engineering Effort to Important but Often Overlooked System Component

Our View: SRX2 Unit Sets New Standard for Voice Market

SCDigest Editorial Staff

Just recently, SCDigest was briefed on a new voice headset from Vocollect, the SRX2 unit.

In addition, Vocollect sent a unit to editor Dan Gilmore for a "hands on" review.

Our new Supply Chain Tech Note offers a detailed look at the SRX2, and in summary, we were impressed. Vocollect has put some really smart design and engineering effort into a product category that in retrospect seems to have been overdue for such an effort, taking an almost commoditized product area and really setting a new standard for the voice market.

That it has taken this long for a refresh of voice headsets is in a sense unusual, given that headsets are in fact the way distribution center workers really interface with a voice system.

Among the benefits of the new SRX2 headset:

• More comfortable feel when worn

• Improved voice recognition

• Significant reduction in erroneous voice "insertions," in which the voice recognition system thinks an extraneous DC noise (e.g., horn beeping, pallet dropping) is actually a voice response

• Improve audio "fidelity" in the earphone

• Separation of the headband and microphone unit to reduce investment in units and spares.

You will find our full review and comment in the Tech Note: Supply Chain Digest Tech Note: New Voice Headset from Vocollect Sets New Standard for the Market

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