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No joke, a decent microphone / audio interface will make you sound much better.
And you can often find very good quality used equipment like that if you look around for it
What specs should I be looking for to vet the quality?
I’d try finding a sound production / engineering / mixing / recording / etc community and ask them. That’s not an area I have a lot of knowledge in.
What’s your intended use case?