And now it's time for Leo's Turn The Table Turkey!

Leo finds another microphone. This 1 is quite unique – it records up to six conversations!

Microcone is a strange looking device and an innovatively way to capture group conversations. Using just a single microphone array device, Microcone can record individuals within six different directions on six separate audio channels, so you won't need to purchase multiple microphones or spend time setting them up for your groups. As well as providing a single, high-quality audio channel of the conversation, when used with multi-channel capable audio software, the Microcone provides a dedicated audio channel for each of the six recording directions. This audio is also complemented with information about when and where voice activity occurs in each region. The ability to produce multiple directional audio streams together with speech activity and location information even offers the ability to independently control levels for each person in a group. To control the microphone, you need Microcone Console, a simple software application included as part of the Microcone device driver installation on Mac OS X and Windows. Whenever you use the Microcone device as the microphone input in an audio application, the Microcone Console app allows you to control and visualise the Microcone audio processing. Leo mentioned the software was $5, but I think he might have been referring to another software app Microcone Recorder for Mac OS X 10.7+. It’s for recording group meetings and there’s no Windows version of that. Price, not cheap, but when you consider it’s six microphones, it’s not that bad. The Microcone is $365.00.

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