Digital Classnotes: Help Your Children Learn More

Our youngest son, Matt, is starting college this Fall. Along with the books, backpack and parking permit, we have outfitted him with a good digital voice recorder to use when he's in class. Rather than trying to race to record notes from the professors' lectures, he can concentrate on what is being said and leave the note-taking to later when he can better organize his notes.

To help him transcribe his notes, we're also giving him a transcription kit, which, with the footswitch, will help him speedily convert the lectures to outlines and notes he can use. By listening to the lecture again, it also reinforces the lesson.

We do get more calls around this time of year, but we suspect many who use dictation in every day work, don't always realize that many of the same benefits they enjoy using digital recorders can also help their offspring.

Maybe this will be the year.

PS: we often get calls from parents and students wanting to record lectures and use speech recognition to convert them to text. As much as we would like to find a solution like this ourselves, there really isn't one that does the job with any degree of accuracy. Speech recognition works by learning how one person dictates, and having that speaker dictate in a conducive style.

A Complete Digital Conference Recording Kit for Only $249!

While our most popular conference recording kit is the Philips 955, we also talk to many small businesses who want to record their conferences or meetings digitally at a low cost. 

That's why we produced the NSC-CM40. 

This is a high quality conference recording kit comes with the Olympus DS-40 digital stereo recorder with over 135 hours of recording time and unique features like various recording modes and on-board file folders to help organize your recordings. You will also get two omni-directional conference recording microphones that work perfectly on a table top. They have plenty of cord as well to accommodate for a large meeting table. Also, carry all this in a locking metal case with foam padding so your equipment will be protected and last a life time. 

Two Brand New Recorders From Olympus

I wanted to take some time real quick to talk about the new Olympus voice recorders introduced into the DS series of digital voice recorders. The new DS-61 model is a step up from the popular DS-50. It holds twice as many hours as the DS-50, approximately 266 hours in Standard Play. Long play will give you over 530 hours! I couldn't imagine using this recorder to its full capacity in any situation, but it is nice to have. 

 DS-61 

The DS-71 model has twice as much capacity as the DS-61 with 4G of flash memory. If you are recording long meetings or conferences this recorder is ideal because with use of the AC adapter you will never have to worry about running out of time or battery. Or use this to record a musical performance. The highly sensitive microphones create superb sound quality recordings in PCM linear digital format. There are three different types of recording modes as well to ensure that you are not picking up too much extra noise, or you are not picking up enough. The backlit LCD screen is very easy and clear to read making it very easy to use right out of the box. 

DS-71

Olympus really raised the bar with the DS series when it comes to voice and music capture. If you are in the market for such, look no further than Olympus digital voice recorders. Call and let us know how we can help at 866-408-1383.