In the current COVID-19 situation, many of us are work at home. How do you use your office telephone headset with your computer at home?
Some customers found they can’t connect their telephone headset with their computer’s audio jack. The connectors are different. They contact us to find out if we have adapter that connects a telephone headset to a computer’s audio port.
The answer is no. There is no universal adapter can connect telephone headsets to different computers.
Why?
Telephone headsets normally have a RJ9 (4P4C) connector like the telephone wire connector. Or a 2.5mm round pin connector. Computers have different type of audio jacks. Some computers have a 2.5mm audio jack. Some computers have a 3.5mm audio jack. And some computers have separated jacks for speakers and microphone. There are too many different options. A converter can’t cover all of them.
But we have a better solution for you.
The better solution is using an USB Quick Disconnect cord connects your telephone headset to a computer.
OvisLink headsets have Quick Disconnect function. There is a connector at the middle of the headset cord. It looks like the following image.
You may pull and disconnect this connector. Then you can replace the bottom cord with an OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord. The OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord can connect the headset to your computer’s USB port.
What is a USB Quick Disconnect cord?
An USB Quick Disconnect cord is a headset bottom cord. It connects OvisLink headsets with computers’ USB port. It also connects OvisLink headsets with telephones that supports USB headset function.
OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord has a flat connector at one end and an USB connector at the other end. It has following buttons (functions): volume + and volume -, a microphone mute button and a talk button that compatible with Microsoft MS Lync system. Here is how it looks.
You may use OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord to connect OvisLink headsets with most of the computers: laptop, desktop; Windows, Mac and Linux. It is compatible with many different softphone apps, like Skype.
Where to buy an OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord
You may order the USB quick disconnect cord from OvisLink.com. Here is the link: https://www.ovislink.com/USB-Quick-Disconnect-Cord-for-OvisLink-Headsets-p/qd-usb.htm
How to install a telephone headset with your computer
- Pull to disconnect the bottom cord from your OvisLink headset.
- Replace the bottom cord with an OvisLink USB Quick Disconnect cord.
- Connect the USB connector on the USB Quick Disconnect cord to your computer.
- Once the USB cord connected to the computer’s USB port, the computer will install the OvisLink USB headset automatically.
- Now your computer has more than one audio device. Go to your computer’s audio device setting. Select OvisLink USB headset as input and output device. Some applications may not automatically use the computer’s audio setting. In this case, you need to open the application’s configuration section and select the OvisLink USB headset as the audio device again.
- Now you may use the OvisLink telephone headset with your computer.
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