I'm the type of person who's always listening to music over headphones. And while I might end up trying the Voyager Legend UC for podcasts, I think I'd overall miss the stereo, surround sound. The newly announced Parrot Zik 2 has a ton of interesting features, but who knows how the mic sounds or if they'll ever make an SDK.
I should start by saying that I'm in the midst of building a home automation system of some kind by the end of the month for a university project (and because I want one). While an ideal setup would use mics in the house or perhaps an Amazon Echo-style device, I'm seeing many more devices use mics in the remote control, mics on your wrist or phone, and so on. So instead of shouting at a speaker across the room (e.g. SoundBlaster Axx 200 or Roar), I'm already hooked up to the speaker, and the thing I talk to can also perform limited commands, or have push-to-talk functionality like that Star Trek-style "communicator" announced recently.
Anyway, as a shot in the dark, I thought, maybe I could just add a mic to my headphones (I'd been looking for wireless ones anyway) or try to find an unobtrusive mono headset and use that instead of wiring up the entire house to listen 24/7 for commands. Perhaps I should consider one or more Calisto 620s? I wish they were Wi-Fi based, maybe ethernet, but once I add features like that I bet the price jumps to a more "corporate" level... Any catches to using more than one device with the same PC/SDK, or should I try to dedicate, say, an Android device per mic if stationary?
Suggestions? What would you use to power your smarthome's voice input? I've got a bunch of wi-fi cameras with terrible mics, custom Ivona TTS voices for Windows, the Speech Platform from Microsoft, and then every mobile platform has its own dictation support ... but nothing feels "right" yet, for voice control input, unless the answer is "every device with a mic within 2 feet of me at any given time" which is harder to write code for.. and the mic might not be all that good without specific training...