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L&H sold "Voice Xpress" as a package with an Olympus DS-150 DVR. The
package included the DVR, the software, and a reasonable quality dual-jack
headset/boom-microphone. In operation, you first train the PC installation
of the voice software, as is usual with dictation software. You then
separately create a training profile using the DVR as a pass-through
microphone. From then on, you have a 73-minute DVR, which can have the
dictation fed back into the computer and transcribed.
In use? Dictating to the PC, which I don't do very often, I guess I hit
somewhere around 75-80% accuracy. In using the DVR, which I don't use much
at the moment, but have done in the past - I was at around 90-95% accuracy,
with a high proportion of specialist (systems management) terminology taught
to the profile.
I don't know if the whole package is still available anymore, but I do
recall seeing a set on eBay a couple of days ago, as I still had them on my
saved search.
Hope that helps,
Gary
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Gary K. Slinger
Manager, Operations Design and Development
CP Ships - Infrastructure Planning & Projects
Tampa, Florida
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin J. [mailto:twriter01 -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 01:05
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Voice Recorders and Voice recoginition software
Has anyone heard or used a digital voice recorder that automatically
transcribes when connected to your computer? If so, what brand have you
used? Would you endorse it?
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