I'll look at those functions myself, see if I can work around them.
It seems that Olympus have cut down on the internal memory on the DM-7,
am I correct in assuming that the DM-7 only has 4GB of internal memory?
The DM-4 has 8GB, not a critical point given that SD cards are cheaper
than potato chips these days.
On 25/07/2015 10:17 PM, Aidan wrote:
Yes, there were a few updates to dm4 to make more things speak. The
dm7 have daisy functions, but I think that needs fixing as I cannot
manage to read a book. Hopefully a update is coming. It can also
import daisy from cd, but again I could not manage to perform that
successfully. The diary is quite similar. I cannot compare to dm4
exactly, as I don't have one, but I know that on dm7 you first enter
the diary, then you go to the day you want with cursor keys and press
enter on that. Then you record the memo up to one minit I think. Then
in the menu you will be able to set an alarm for the memo on the day
you choose when you started off. And to set alarm and recording timer
is very accessible. Note however that unlike the older models, there
is know longer an alarm playback function under the playback menu. So
the only alarm you can set are those wich are assigned to a voice
memo. And then you connect to pc, you will see in the internal memory
a folder containing the memos. I had know problem setting alarm.
On 25/07/2015, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Thanks for that very informative post, I'll have the DM-7 some time next
week and I'm looking forwardg to seeing the differences you've noted, I
can see advantages and disadvantages in both systems and I wonder which
I'll use the most.
Doesn't the DM-7 have some sort of Wi-Fi facility or am I thinking of a
different model.
By the sounds of it the Daisy reader has been dumped in the DM-7, is
this correct?
I was able to use the voice of the DM-4 to set the time and date when it
had been stated in various access publications that this couldn't be
done so perhaps there have been a few firmware updates between 2011 and
the present day.
I was able - well sort of - to use the Audio Diary of the DM-4, I
couldn't schedule a memo to an accurate time of day but I could schedule
a memo to a day so this meant all I had to do was to browse to the day I
wanted to see my appointments for and just listen to each in tern, the
DM-4 would tell me how many appointments I had scheduled as I moved
between days.
On 25/07/2015 5:38 AM, Aidan wrote:
Dm4 uses Samantha, while dm7 uses sarina. Dm4 have assignable function
keys, while the dm7 keys are not assignable. As a result, dm4 will
read time and date and battery if assigned to function keys, but dm7
requires to be on the home screen. Dm4 have just a vertical menu with
options, while dm7 have first off a home screen when you power on.
Then once you launch menus on dm7 you will find you have to navigate
horizontally and vertically to rich all the menus. With dm4 you can
choose between wather you want to make pc or a c adapter the default
connection, but as with dm7 they removed that, you only select the
storage or composit device and each time upon connection you have to
choose between a c or pc connection.
Dm4 have a b repeat playback, while dm7 took it furder with a b c
repeat playback.
Dm7 don't have VCVA recording like dm4. In adition to the noise
playback and voice filter on dm4, the dm7 add voice detection settings
where portions of a file could be extract and dead air can be left out
to fasten playback of sertin files. And also transcription moad. But
they removed the voice filter playback. The dm4 have random playback
but dm7 don't have random or shuffle play, even though the spex says
it does. But both stil have repeat of folder or file. Dm4 you have to
turn on a setting accessibility mode or something to that nature, to
allow speaking of file names with tts. But with dm7 know longer
possible or needed. It will speak the file names naturally without any
ajustments. Of corse, all new models now know longer stores voice
files on the internal memory, but now build in. Hope this helps.
Feel free to ask I got dm7 so I will help where I can. Of corse don't
forget the wifi on dm7. And it only charge via USB port or USB
adapter. Know longer the option of normal a c adapter.
On 24/07/2015, Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Hi!
I own an Olympus DM-4 and will be getting a DM-7 shortly, are their any
major differences I should look out for?
I also own a Zoom H1 recorder and prefer to use it for a lot of jobs
given that the H1 has higher sampling rates, I also think the
microphones are better but nevertheless, the DM-4 does an excellent job
for a recorder of its size.
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