[Electronics-Talk] accessible digital voice recorders

[Aaron Spears]

Hi.

It has fully voiced menus with only a couple of specific things not voicing
like about and the move to/from sd card option and such. Everything I want
to do is spoken.  It reads date and time when you have to set it which most
of Olympus's other ones did not.


It has the 3 microphone setup, but the central one is slightly noisy so I
keep it turned off. It records in mp3 or wav, with mp3 going from really
low quality to 128 and for some reason skipping 192 to go all the way to
320, and on the wav side it only has two choices, 44.1k 16 bit or 48k 16bit.

It uses the same british female prerecorded voice that the vast majority of
talking Olympus recorders did.The only exception I know of is the dm4 which
used a tts engine for spoken output.



On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 6:00 PM Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk <
electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> It sounds like the HP 4 is no longer made if you can only get it on EBay.
> Is the spoken menus in a male or female voice?
> What did this recorder do for recording such as the formats it had? Did it
> have three microphones like the dm 620 and 720 have?
>
> Curious to know about it because it sounds like now the dm 720 is the more
> accessible one with voice guidance on menus. I have the dm 520 now which is
> an older model of the dm 720.
> The good thing is it even beeps when you press the record and stop buttons
> so you can really know you pressed them. Also it will announce when its
> battery is low.
> I've never seen the hp4 so cannot compare its features.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
> Raymond Foret Jr via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 10:55 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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> Cc: Raymond Foret Jr <rforet7706 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] accessible digital voice recorders
>
> I use an Olympus HP 4 which is now only available on Ebay but it's the best
> recorder they made.  If you want something even better, might I suggest the
> Eltranex V12 pro.
>
> Fully accessible and it has a very good mp3 encoder at 320KBPS.
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
> Still a very proud Mac, Xfinity Mobile and Apple TV user
>
> > On Oct 17, 2023, at 8:23 PM, Aaron Spears via Electronics-Talk
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> >
> > I don't have any other choices but I do want to recommend the Dm720. I
> use mine heavily. I have it and a very similar older Lsp2, I prefer the
> Dm720 over the Lsp2. I have basically no complaints.
> >
> >
> > Here is an audio file I made recently with my dm720 and an external
> headset, the Andrea Sp405 that you can no longer get. I did edit in
> commentary using a computer later, that editing was not done on the
> recorder
> itself.
> >
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xhiv2q6ayaz92shmrvkr5/adjusting-the-port-an
> d-starboard-idle-screws-on-the-duplex-carburetor-on-my-John-Deere-620-comm
> entary-included.MP3?dl=1
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xhiv2q6ayaz92shmrvkr5/adjusting-the-port-and-starboard-idle-screws-on-the-duplex-carburetor-on-my-John-Deere-620-commentary-included.MP3?dl=1>
> >
> >
> > Cheers:
> > Aaron Spears, AKA Valiant8086 General Partner at Valiant Galaxy
> Associates "we make (VERY GOOD AUDIOGAMES) for the blind comunity"
> http://valiantGalaxy.com
> >
> > On 10/17/2023 4:54 PM, Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a voice recorder with high quality recording such as
> wav,
> >> mp4, or mp3 with a 320 bit rate.
> >>
> >>
> >> New devices seem to be coming out. I'm aware of the Olympus dm 720
> which has
> >> spoken menus once the voice guidance feature is turned on.
> >>
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if any of Sony's recorders are accessible? Ideally,
> I'd
> >> like the buttons to speak so I do not lose track of menus But if they
> beep
> >> or have an audible indicator, I'd consider it accessible.
> >>
> >>
> >> I just saw the Phillips Tracer recorder at a store. Anyone know if
> >> this
> is
> >> accessible?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Ashley
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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Cheers:
Aaron Spears
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