Well let's take the Zoom F8 as an example. For my example I'll use
myself. Most things will be set it and forget it. Format for the most
part I'd set to 192 KHZ 24 bits. Phantum power I might to save battery
set it to 24 vults or heck even 12. Cause I think I red my AT-8022 can
work with only just 11. pre record set it to the full 6 seconds. Done.
Now others may do differently, but what I guess I'm saying I'd only
reset things or set things keeping in mind the fact this doesn't talk.
But I would ask someone. Or yeah maybe Be My Eyes could come in handy.
On 6/20/2018 6:26 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
I somewhat agree with you Dane.
However some might not have the situation with sighted people around you which
imho is a must if you buy something that’s not talking or has a display where
reading is important.
However i agree i would also not buy a talking microwave as long as i can use a
les expensive one with more features.
The same for a recorder and whatever audio toy you might get.
But now a days we have got some new interesting things with all new services
that comes around.
I haven’t tested Be my eyes yet but they say its a pritty good service so one
might not need sighted friends around.
Just my 2 cents.
/A
20 juni 2018 kl. 15:10 skrev Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>:
Having looked at the recorder I wouldn’t describe it as having outstanding
features.
This product has been designed around accessibility and that’s a good thing but
for a recorder itself? Well its not outstanding even at its price point.
For me a recorder is a recorder meaning I want the recorder to do exactly what
it was designed to do, record and record as well as my finances will allow.
To put it another way, I know there are talking microwave ovens available but
they cost hundreds of dollars.
So the question is why pay hundreds of dollars when you can purchase a very
good oven for no more than a couple of hundred dollars at most which has far
more functionality than the talking microwave itself? Grant you the Talking
microwave talks but has limited cooking functions and cooking functions are
exactly what I buy a microwave oven for.
Similarly I buy a recorder to record and - whilst Voice Guidance is a very nice
and appreciated touch - its not the be and end all when making a choice for a
recorder.
An FM radio in a recorder? Yeah a nice and convenient tool to have perhaps not
not an essential feature.
The bit depth and sampling rate won’t worry those who are wanting to use the
recorder for note taking but again why would you pay for a product of inferior
audio quality when the Olympus LS-P4 - which is a far more powerful recording
instrument - is around the same price?
And of course there are other recorders out there other than those we’ve been
discussing, the Zoom H1N comes to mind and I really must try one at some stage
to see if its better than my Zoom H1 machine which I still treasure as that was
my first field recorder.
On 20 Jun 2018, at 10:43 pm, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah I'd love to hear how this Eltrinex recorder sounds. Cause if it's real
accessible and real good sounding than that's great.
Especially for someone who wants accessibility. Cause apparently this has more
accessibility then the Olympus recorders. But again this from what I heard in
the clip could have a synth of some sort. Olympus just has a lady say stuff and
they connect her recordings to each menu choice. Which is a great idea but it
means that total accessibility like a plextalk would mean haveing this person
speak every single little thing this rcorder does. Which as we've seen with the
P recorders they have had her say some more but we aren't DM-4 level yet.
On 6/20/2018 7:00 AM, Don Breda wrote:
Dane I decided to give the eltrinex recorder a try since for messages and other
notes it really stands out in its capabilities.
I did purchase one yesterday and will give it a try.
I will report to the list on its prose and cons and maybe share a few
recordings once I have had it for a while.
I will be returning the ls-p1 for a full refund.
I do have an ls-14 for high quality recordings although these days I usually
use my iPhone for that so we shall see what happens with regard to the eltrinex.
Don
On 19-Jun-18 7:40 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
In these situations I always hope I’m wrong, so are you going to have the P1
swapped for a P4 or think about something entirely different.
On 20 Jun 2018, at 5:50 am, Aidan <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, this eltrinex don't have xlr and such for hamit, so I guess its
sort of comparible with pocket or higher. Since it don't seem to have
stereo microphones I cannot recall.
On 19/06/2018, Aidan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Olympus dm7.
On 19/06/2018, Bob Hicks <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
What is the complete model name of the DM 7? tnx
Have a great day!
Bob Hicks
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Aidan
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 9:56 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [all-audio] Another Olympus recorder question:
Of corse olympus continued the work after the dm4, they done the dm7 wich
have improvements there. Example, on dm4 you had to switch a setting on
wich
allow file names to be spoken, but with dm7 there is no such thing, it
just
works. It read everything even the password for wifi.
On 19/06/2018, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I don’t want to spoil the party but I think you’re going to be a
little disappointed.
On 19 Jun 2018, at 8:39 am, Don Breda <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dane.
I will report back tomorrow but my understanding is that the ls-p1 is
the
ls-p2 without the bluetooth feature.
The manual seems to indicate that voice guidance is there but I will
confirm tomorrow.
Believe me if it doesn't its going back right away grin!
Don
On 18-Jun-18 6:17 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote:
I hope I’m wrong, I think the LS-P1 is one of Those that don’t have
speech and not all Olympus recorders do.
As I understand it the LS-P1 is the model down from the LS-p2 and
lacks some of the functionality of the P2 including Voice Guidance.
As per your question regarding TTS? I’ll need some help on this but
to my knowledge the DM4 was one of the few Olympus recorders to have
a fully fledged TTS built-in so that’s why that particular model was
able to handle so much more in the form of Daisy books and so on.
It is a pity that Olympus never continued on with the good work of
the
DM4 to finish the job but there we are.
On 19 Jun 2018, at 6:55 am, Don Breda <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi listers,
Eagerly awaiting the arrival tomorrow of my ls-p1 recorder and had
one question.
Does the ls-p series actually contain a text to speech synthesizer
as I am told the olympus dm-4 does?
I ask because I would like to give names to the folders on the
recorder and possibly create new ones and have their names spoken.
Thanks in advance.
Don
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