[nabs-l] Voice recorders for College & Grad School

V Nork ginisd at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 21 03:39:04 UTC 2010


Hello all, I have used the Victor Reader stream as well in my college
classes and love it dearly, and agree with all the comments below.  The
newest  upgrade will also allow you to convert  files with the pdf
extension  and place them on your stream.  I have not tried this yet.  I
also have an   Olympus DS50, which is another kind of digital tape recorder.
This  DS50 may have slightly better pickup than the Victor    and is often
used to do podcasts.   I have not learned to use this yet, but I think it
will not be too difficult when I have time to settle down with it.  It is an
older model of Olympus recorder but the advantage of something like the DS50
for me, just personally, is that there are many users of this model out
there.  So if I need help learning it, I have many possible sources of
instruction.  For example the VR stream has many more users I think than the
newer Gw Micro book sense, so perhaps I  would run into more other users who
can help me if I need troubleshooting with the stream than if I had the book
sense.  Also the VR stream has an unusually nice and  knowledgeable user
list, I am sorry I do not have a link to this user list serve.  I think it
is on the Humanware site Best of luck, Ginny.,

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Anita Adkins
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Voice recorders for College & Grad School

I don't know what a low pass filter is, but I use the Victor reader.  The 
audio is excellent, and you can insert bookmarks with it.  The external 
speaker isn't very loud, but if you use headphones, the sound is much 
louder.  All functions speak, and the battery lasts a very long time.  It 
plays books from RFB&D and the library for the blind.  It also plays mp3 
books or files and can play text files.  I love mine.  It is slightly larger

than a cell phone.  It has a headphone jack and a jack for an external mic, 
but I have never used the external mic jack because it has an excellent 
built in mic.  It uses sd cards.  I think you can also hook a thumb drive 
into it, but I may be wrong about that.  It comes with a cord to hook it 
through USB into the computer.  It is made by Humanware.  Just FYI.  Anita

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <rmlambert1987 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:45 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] Voice recorders for College & Grad School


>I know Sarah has the DM-420 by Olympus, but I was curious about what others

>were using. I really want something with a low pass filter, stereo 
>recording, and index markers, so I can mark each slide on the overhead. 
>Anyone for recommendations? I also want to use this for podcasting.
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