micro-casque d'ordre et d'écoute

English translation: headset with incorporated microphone or just headset

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French term or phrase:micro-casque d'ordre et d'écoute
English translation:headset with incorporated microphone or just headset
Entered by: Yolanda Broad

10:26 Jul 24, 2014
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2014-07-27 11:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Media / Multimedia / TV
French term or phrase: micro-casque d'ordre et d'écoute
This is a requirement for a TV studio. I am aware it is a headset of sorts but I am a bit thrown off by the "casque d'ordre". Many thanks in advance.
Marie-Celine Grech
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:54
headset with incorporated microphone or just headset
Explanation:
It's a bit difficult to be 100% certain without some more info, but from past experience, this is going to be something like a Sennheiser HME 26-II.
Basically you have a professional studio headphone with an integrated microphone. As there is a microphone integrated, it's a headset and not just a headphone. Whether you explicitly mention the headphone is your choice - a pro audience should know that a headset has a microphone.
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Duncan Moncrieff
France
Local time: 07:54
Grading comment
Thank you Duncan. Since this is part of a tender document I have chosen to be specific and use "headset with incorporated microphone". Thanks once again.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1headset with incorporated microphone or just headset
Duncan Moncrieff
3 +1headset with mic for talkback and foldback
Tony M


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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
micro-casque d'ordre et d'ecoute
headset with incorporated microphone or just headset


Explanation:
It's a bit difficult to be 100% certain without some more info, but from past experience, this is going to be something like a Sennheiser HME 26-II.
Basically you have a professional studio headphone with an integrated microphone. As there is a microphone integrated, it's a headset and not just a headphone. Whether you explicitly mention the headphone is your choice - a pro audience should know that a headset has a microphone.


    Reference: http://en-de.sennheiser.com/studio-headphones
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headset_(audio)
Duncan Moncrieff
France
Local time: 07:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you Duncan. Since this is part of a tender document I have chosen to be specific and use "headset with incorporated microphone". Thanks once again.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: :-) Yes, though I think you have missed out what was probably the bit really giving Asker the problem, i.e. 'ordre' / 'écoute' / ;-)
3 mins
  -> Thanks Tony - True, your answer explains more the problematic, whereas I just mention the apparatus.
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
micro-casque d'ordre et d'ecoute
headset with mic for talkback and foldback


Explanation:
I am of course assuming that 'micro-casque' does indeed mean 'a headset with microphone attached' (as is usual for this kind of application.

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Note added at 13 minutes (2014-07-24 10:39:52 GMT)
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In TV production and the like, 'ordre' means that the person can receive 'orders' from the technical control room — and/or perhaps to a lesser extent give them too. The traditional technical term for this is the slightly less peremptory 'talkback'.

'écoute' refers to the fact that the person can hear programme audio — in the old days, on TV studio cameras, one heard programme audio in one ear and gallery talkback in the other; it was frightfully schizophrenic! This may of course be programme audio just so that the person can follow what is going on, or it might be specifically a return feed of their own voice, say — very common for singers in a music recording context.

Either way, wherever it comes from, the audio that is sent back to the headset is referred to as 'foldback' (unless some more detailed description of the feed is specified).


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Note added at 21 minutes (2014-07-24 10:48:11 GMT)
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As Duncan says, most people would take the 'with mic' for granted; however, in something like a set of specifications, it's perhaps as well to spell everything out so as to avoid any possibility of misunderstanding.

Tony M
France
Local time: 07:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 132
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you Tony. "Ordre" confused me a bit as I found several references for d'ecoute. Thanks for the invaluable insight.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Duncan Moncrieff: Sorry Tony, only saw your answer upon posting mine. I agree with your explanation.
6 mins
  -> Thanks, Duncan!
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