[Hidden-tech] Challenge - wireless mic to wiseless earbuds

[Nate DeRose]

What about just using Bluetooth headsets with a simple push-to-talk app
such as Zello?

Nate
On Apr 6, 2015 7:35 PM, "George Forman" <Videatives at aol.com> wrote:

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> Dear Hidden Techies,
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> After many calls to communication retailers I have given up on generic
> advice on how to set up the following system inexpensively.
> Imagine a tennis coach with a headphone mic talking to a tennis student on
> the other side of the net who wears wireless earbuds.
> I need a wearable transmitter for the coach and a wearable receiver for
> the student.  Valley Communications priced this system to
> be around $800.  I would like to know if I could use a standard lapel mic
> system one uses with a video camera that has a mini-jack
> audio input.  The student would wear the receiver and plug in a set of
> earbuds into the receiver.  The receivers usually have an audio
> cable with a plug that goes into the video camera jack.  I thought I could
> use a female to female adapter to attach the earbuds to the
> receiver.  But I am not sure the receiver would yield intelligible sound
> to earbuds since it is usually ported to a digital video camera.
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> I have thought about blue tooth components as well using my computer as
> both a transmitter and receiver, but have no idea if this would
> work.  Your wisdom and experience on this challenge would be greatly
> appreciated and thereafter shared with anyone else needing
> to talk at a distance to someone whose performance you are trying to guide
> with verbal instruction (e.g. dancer, cook, or neigh, perhaps a
> poker player :-).
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> Thanks,
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> George Forman, Ph.D.
> Co-Founder of Coach in the Mirror
> Amherst, Massachusetts
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