[olivierlacan]

Howdy, author of the post here. I do address this issue in an earlier post: https://olivierlacan.com/posts/loud-and-clear/

And generally every single mic recommendation I give in the linked post has a cardioid pickup pattern which is precisely what can help isolate stray noise in places with louder environments. Software like Zoom will do the rest of the work for you depending on how aggressive the noise control settings are. Zoom is surprisingly good at eliminating echo, feedback, and other non-speaker-voice noises from the mic signal.

Stray far and wide from omnidirectional pickup patterns in microphones because they will unfortunately be far too sensitive to environmental noise. This is also true with many noise-canceled mic/earbuds combos which cancel noise for the person wearing it but not for the people receiving the mic audio recorded in the noisy space.

[Arelius]

Thanks, I've tried a few USB Cardoid mics already, and it still picks my wife up loud and clear. I haven't yet tried a supercardoid, or to get a mic amp that allows gain adjustment. So might give that a try.