using Bluetooth headset with laptop?

Is it possible to use a Bluetooth earpiece as a mic/earpiece on a laptop? If
so, anyone help me set it up? The laptop has found and paired with the
headset but I can't get it to pick up sound from the mic.

I did one of my hands in the other week and got fed up typing with one hand,
so bought some speech recognition software which works great, except the
headset/boom mic is clumsy and awkward, and I have to keep unplugging it
when I want to move away from the laptop. It would be much handier to use
the bluetooth earoiece if possible.

headset: LazerXS2
laptop HP compaq nx7010 running XP

Thanks
Rog

Hi, this tutorial may help:
http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=10822

-Szili

RB News wrote:

> Is it possible to use a Bluetooth earpiece as a mic/earpiece on a laptop?
> If
> so, anyone help me set it up? The laptop has found and paired with the
> headset but I can't get it to pick up sound from the mic.
>
> I did one of my hands in the other week and got fed up typing with one
> hand, so bought some speech recognition software which works great, except
> the headset/boom mic is clumsy and awkward, and I have to keep unplugging
> it when I want to move away from the laptop. It would be much handier to
> use the bluetooth earoiece if possible.

If the laptop has a headset profile then this should work fine. In Windows
XP you need to specify in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio
Devices/Audio/Sound Recording/Default Device "Bluetooth Audio".

> headset: LazerXS2
> laptop HP compaq nx7010 running XP
>
> Thanks
> Rog

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"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:dl2in40lka@news4.newsguy.com...
> RB News wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to use a Bluetooth earpiece as a mic/earpiece on a
laptop?
> > If
> > so, anyone help me set it up? The laptop has found and paired with the
> > headset but I can't get it to pick up sound from the mic.
> >
> > I did one of my hands in the other week and got fed up typing with one
> > hand, so bought some speech recognition software which works great,
except
> > the headset/boom mic is clumsy and awkward, and I have to keep
unplugging
> > it when I want to move away from the laptop. It would be much handier to
> > use the bluetooth earoiece if possible.
>
> If the laptop has a headset profile then this should work fine. In
Windows
> XP you need to specify in Control Panel/Sounds and Audio
> Devices/Audio/Sound Recording/Default Device "Bluetooth Audio".
>
> > headset: LazerXS2
> > laptop HP compaq nx7010 running XP
> >
> > Thanks
> > Rog
>
> --
> --John
> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

Thanks John - problem was I needed to update my Bluetooth hardware driver
(luckily, hp use the Widdlecom not the MckrowSauft) after which the
Bluetooth Audio and Headset options appeared. Now have connections paired
etc for both Headset and Audio Gateway so can now answer my mobile using my
laptop (although why I'd want to beats me). Only problem I now have is
that the volume from the Bluetooth mic is VERY low; whilst researching for
earlier question I noticed this on SKYPE forums as being a common problem,
will need to go back there again to research solution -- -- unless someone
on this group knows the answer to that one too . . .
cheers
Rog