Karen:  It sounds way harder than it really is.  I had a bunch of stereo
cassettes of music that's no longer available commercially that were
deteriorating slowly, and I was able to digitize  them with  Gold Wave, and I
am by no means a techie.  Your sound card is where your speakers are probably
plugged in now.  There are maybe three jacks, and you'll have to figure out
which one is the input.  You might be able to use the microphone jack on the
front of your PC, but on the two units I've done this with, they're mono.
That probably doesn't matter if you're just after one track.  Also, if you
want to save some time and you're using Gold Wave, you should be able to play
your cassette at the fastest speed, and then use Gold Wave to edit it down to
normal speaking speed.
Good luck.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of karen schrade
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:46 AM
To: blind computing
Subject: [Blind-Computing] more on cassette to computer

thanks to all the guys who offered their expertise. Now, I'm even more
nervous about my potential for doing this. I don't even know how to get to my
sound card which, apparently, is the first step in this process.

then, can i just use my 4 track recorder/player to transfer one track at a
time?

this all sounds very daunting. Maybe I'll just give the tape and a tape
player to my son and let him figure it out! thanks again, Karen 


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