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| Microsoft Sidewinder Game Voice | 
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| Buy New: $49.95
Buy New/Used from $5.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 35411
Category: CE
Publisher: Microsoft
Studio: Microsoft
Brand: Microsoft
Label: Microsoft
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 2.5
MPN: D90-00001
Model: D90-00001
UPC: 659556417826
EAN: 0659556417826
ASIN: B00004Z474
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Voice command and control within games | | • | Based on instant messaging technology, Game Voice's connection management software lets users quickly and easily find and connect to their friends | | • | Includes a quality voice cancellation mic for optimal speech recognition | | • | Group teammates or individuals into 5 distinct channels for private chat | | • | Broadcast up to 64 players at once |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Product Description
Communicate or die--the common problem of all team-based games. Now talk to your friends during your PC games instead of typing, with SideWinder Game Voice. It enables effective team play over Internet or LAN connections. Gameplay is uncompromised and the sound is terrific! Have your friends join in on the action with Game Voice Share software, available for free download. Benefits include voice command and control within games. Game Voice comes with a speech recognition engine that allows you to simply speak a command like "grenades" or "flaps down" within a game instead of hunting for the keyboard shortcut. Use one of the prebuilt profiles or create your own. You can also find and connect to your friends easily. Based on instant messaging technology, Game Voice's connection management software lets users quickly and easily find and connect to their friends. It also shows users when their friends are online. And you can talk to your PC. Game Voice includes a quality voice-cancellation mic for optimal speech recognition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Awesome hardware, so-so software May 9, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When this came out, it was top shelf stuff. After it disappeared from Microsoft's radar, however, it got boxed up and put away. Everyone I knew was using something *other* than GameVoice to chat in-game. Now, however, we have FULL support for the GameVoice in Teamspeak 2! I have my buttons configured just right (Teamspeak can use combinations of buttons rather than sticking you with just a few commands). All said and done, an excellent product... so long as you throw away the disc that comes with it.
 Don't bother May 12, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had high hopes that this would enhance my gaming experience. I'm fond of Battlefield 1942, and I was excited about the possibility of communicating with my friends in the online gaming environment. After setting the thing up and logging on with a friend (who purchased a Game Voice the same time I did), I was very disappointed with the sound quality. I could barely hear my buddy and there was serious distortion. During game play (where there is a lot of ambient noise, i.e., tanks, bombs, etc.) I couldn't hear my buddy at all...
Great April 15, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I use it a lot! Be careful though! The headset breaks easily!
 the good, the bad and the ugly March 14, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great way to chat with buddies online. Play a skirmish Age of Mythology match with a buddy or just use it to talk to your virtually-based business team..it's a great system. BUT.... Microsoft no longer supports this product, so if you have a problem, you're stuck with a Google search for a fix. Thing is -people are starting to have problems that pop up when upgrades and bug fixes are no longer addressed. The big issue right now is the chat software's incompatiblity with Direct X 9.0 - the latest version of Microsoft's own multimedia APIs that are needed to use the software. My system worked beautifully until I downloaded the latest DX, then I was permanently [stuck] since I was unable to restore my system to pre-DX9.0 (and its next to impossible to downgrade to 8.0). I've since thrown the 'puck' in the yard sale bin and use the headset with Yahoo Messenger to chat with friends. Still lets me play games and chat with friends, but the puck's voice game controls are nonexistent. On the flip side, the sound quality of the headphones is impressive - same with the mic. I use the headset to listen to tunes while I work, flip down the mic to chat when I get a vox chat invite from buds - seamless. Tic for tac. Bottomline: buy it and don't upgrade to Direct X 9.0, upgrade to Direct X 9.0 and don't use the puck, or pick up a cheap PC headset somewhere. Either way, you'll probably pay about the same price, and the included Plantronics headset does sound really, really good (great mic quality too), so just buy the damn thing already and risk it.
A cool idea, but makes sure your buddies have one too. January 10, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Got this for Christmas and was pretty excited. The product installs easily and works as advertised for the most part but has some quirks. First of all, you need a real sound card to plug into. Forget it if you are using audio built into to your motherboard. Secondly, when using the GameVoice it defaults to a setting where it masks your voice. You have to dig around the options to change it. Also, sometimes I experienced a lag or echo when talking which made conversations difficult to understand.Finally, the GameVoice only really pays off when you are playing with 3 or more people that also have it. I play mostly with one other person at at time and we ended up using speakerphone while we gamed over DSL. The Game Voice would probably be worth buying if most of your game buddies had one as well.
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