SunFounder USB 2.0 Mini Microphone for Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Module 3B+, 3B 2 Module B & RPi 1 Model B+/B Laptop Desktop PCs Skype VOIP Voice Recognition Software

No fiddling needed to get the device to work using Raspbian Bookworm on a Raspbperry Pi 4B. I am using it for the sound portion of a live YouTube stream using the new Module 3 camera (Wide). It would be nice if it was stereo, but without at least a foot's separation between mic inputs, I don't think making such a small mic stereo would be at all helpful.

Been using it for my Rasberry Pi voice assistant for a few months now, and it's working great! The assistant is in our bedroom and is able to pick voice from anywhere in the room despite ambient noise (from dishwasher and others in kitchen and elsewhere).. of course, speech recognition library settings play a role here. Raspbian Buster could detect it w/o any issues. Originally considered buying a more expensive USB mics with an extended cord but settled with this with for its compactness and I've no regrets!

Used this with a Pi 4 to make a smart home HID/Rhasspy satellite. Worked fine for voice commands, though YMMV, as I usually use it in a pretty quiet space. Audio is not excellent to actually listen to, but it's good enough for speech to text (with the gain heavily boosted). It's cheap, it works quickly with rhasspy, and it's reliable enough for simple smart home commands.

I bought this orginally for a school project, and ended up using is for all sorta of other things like RetroPie gaming. This is a fantastic, all-ages piece of tech that can be enjoyed in more ways than any one person can imagine. I absolutely recommend this to any technofile out there that wants a new toy.

It's a great concept, however the audio that it records comes out garbled, cursed, and spooky. I tried speaking and I can't hear a single word I said and I wasn't even that close to the microphone. Very staticky sound. I don't really see how I can use this if it doesn't record sound properly.

Received today and immediately plugged into my Raspberry Pi. Recognized right away and was able to test hardware/drivers without any updates on Raspberry Pi 3B+ (and also tested with Rpi4) as soon as you fire up the microphone to either stream or record a simple .wav or .mp3 file, you get almost nothing but background feedback. I can vaguely hear the TV in the room and when I tap the microphone but speaking from as little as 12 inches away, there is no way to understand what is being said. I tried gain all the way up and different compression settings as well as a number of programs and all with the same result. There is simply no way anyone is using this with a Raspberry Pi in a meaningful way. Completely false advertising.

Does it work? Yes. Can you hear things? Yes. Audio quality? Forget it. Somehow it manages to pickup everything you don't want to hear 10x louder than the stuff you do, even when it's right in front of the microphone. I was able to make it kind-of work for my project with a lot of noise filtering and equalization, increased gain, etc, but things like the HVAC system in the building causing a low "inaudible" rumble was constantly distorting the audio and the microphone seemed to be picking that up instead of people's voices.

I purchased this microphone to use with a Raspberry Pi project and it did the job but if you are using in a room with other noise and sounds I would recommend something else. The external sounds interfered with the mic being able to pick up my voice, especially with my tv on.