[Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice recorder

[David Andrews]

At 09:27 AM 5/17/2011, you wrote:
>Has the victor gone up that much? I bought mine 3 years ago and it was 339.
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>From: "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice recorder
>
>No, the Stream is $329 as it always was.  I believe what was meant 
>was the Book Sense from Hymms, the upper model, the XT I think it is 
>called, is $449.


Dave



>I come kicking and screaming onto the 21st century. LOL.
>Never before in my life, had I had a digital recorder. As far as I am
>concern, for now, the Olympus DM520 Digital Recorder with Talking Menus is
>as good as it gets. It costs $195. Give or take, the Milestone 12 costs
>$400. The Victor Reader costs $449. Sure, it has more features, but at  the
>moment, I don't need more. As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for."
>And don't forget that the next time you want the same product, it might not
>be around anymore. You no longer can get a Milestone 11 any more. Of course,
>that is not all bad, because sometimes you find a better product.
>The only thing not accessible on the Olympus DM520 is being able to set the
>time and date by yourself. According to the podcast I listen to, and learned
>from, the blind community worked with Olympus on accessibility for this
>product.
>The podcast can be found at:
>Blind Cool Tech Podcast
>
>http://www.blindcooltech.com/
>and then link on
>Olympus DM520 And DM420
>Also, if you go to the Olympus Company at:
>olympusamerica.com/support
>the manual is on a type of PDF that is inaccessible.
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>From: "Oso Calmo" <osocalmo at yahoo.co.jp>
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>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Looking for a cheap accessible voice
>recorder
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>
> > Thank you, Frida, for telling me your experience.  In fact, I'm looking
> > for a much cheaper one: let's say $50 or $60.  There are lots of cheap
> > voice recorders, but either they are not accessible or they don't have
> > computer interface.
> >
> > Is your Olympus voice recorder really good?
> > In fact, I had a sad experience last year when I tried
> > dm-4.  The menues talked but not all the time (all the items).  Sometimes
> > I had to wait a lot for the voice to come and there were some instances
> > where it didn't speak.  So, I thought that I would have to remember all
> > the instances it didn't talk to be able to use it comfortably.  There were
> > some instances when I had no idea about what was happening unless I ask
> > someone to look at the screen.
> > Also, I could use daisy to some extent, but it seems that to be able to do
> > fine jumps, etc, you have to rely on the screen.  I couldn't install the
> > software to easily exchange files with my computer, even using the latest
> > version of JAWS.  Jaws couldn't speak any dialogs of the installer and I
> > couldn't read them even in review cursor mode.  So I needed sighted
> > assistance to have it installed.
> >
> > Its sound quality is very good and it has lots of interesting functions;
> > so I really wanted to be able to use it and buy one, but I got tired.  I
> > downloaded the manual from the internet and it was really difficult to
> > read, too: very specific and, as a result, full of repetitions, absolutely
> > easy to read for a sighted person, because they can easily jump to the
> > desired item and have all the information they need there, skipping the
> > t