Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-25 Thread Geoff Eden
t 200 Canadian dollars I have spent in many years. Geoff - Original Message - From: Dan Rossi To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:41 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders OK, did a quick search on the Olympus site. The DM4 is different tha

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Victor Gouveia
Hi Lenny, Dan misspoke when he cited the new Olympus recorders as being the DM-4 and the DM-5, the recorders are actually called the DM-2 and the DM-4, for the 4 gig and 8 gig models respectively. This particular recorder has several advantages from it's predecessors, namely the DS line of rec

RE: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Tom Hodges
ndhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders Thanks to all, now I must do more research. I primarily want it for taking notes etc. I would never, (never say never) record music. - Original Message - From: "Dan Rossi" mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu>

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Dan Rossi
Looks like the DM4 can use voice recog to set up calendar and to-do lists. Maybe you could hijack that functionality for a contact list. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel:(412) 268-9081

[BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Lenny McHugh
I guess I will start searching for demos of the units. What I really want is to put in short notes and phone numbers and to be able to access them quickly. It is a little difficult with the tape recorder and I made the mistake of purchasing the tab memo a year or so ago. After about two years i

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread wstephan
- From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:59 am Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders > I have a Victor Stream. I use it for recording > meeting. Some of the meetings are in large rooms > and include several people. I also get a good >

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
-- >From: "Dan Rossi" <<mailto:dr25%40andrew.cmu.edu>d...@andrew.cmu.edu> >To: "handyman-blind" ><<mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:41 AM >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Dan Rossi
OK, did a quick search on the Olympus site. The DM4 is different than the DM420. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu Tel:(412) 268-9081

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Lenny McHugh
Thanks to all, now I must do more research. I primarily want it for taking notes etc. I would never, (never say never) record music. - Original Message - From: "Dan Rossi" To: "handyman-blind" Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] d

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Don
: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders the edirol hr09 is a super high quality recorder by roland. very high resolution but not too blind friendly. nothing speaks, but i use it for live music recordings does 16 and 24 bit recording on to an sd card. about $350 On

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Bob Kennedy
u can find the Sony at Wal-Mart for around $75. - Original Message - From: "Lenny McHugh" To: "handyman-blind" Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders > Looks like it is time to retire my tape recorder. I just read a little

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Dan Rossi
I didn't look at the specs for the DM420 and DM520, but assume the announcement I just read, talking about the new DM4 and DM5 is probably the same. Not only does the DM4 and 5 have audible menus, but they do text to speech, voice commands, and can read DAISY texts. Seems like the way to go f

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Peter Mikochik
- > From: "Lenny McHugh" > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:25 AM > To: "handyman-blind" > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders > >> Looks like it is time to retire my tape recorder. I just read a little >> about >> the Oly

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Don
-- From: "Lenny McHugh" Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:25 AM To: "handyman-blind" Subject: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders > Looks like it is time to retire my tape recorder. I just read a little > about > the Olympus dm420 and dm520. Are these the best two

Re: [BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Blaine Deutscher
anting to go about it that way check out www.blindcooltech.com this site has a lot of sample recordings with differet recorders and mikes. Blaine - Original Message - From: "Lenny McHugh" To: "handyman-blind" Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:25 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan]

[BlindHandyMan] digital recorders

2010-03-23 Thread Lenny McHugh
Looks like it is time to retire my tape recorder. I just read a little about the Olympus dm420 and dm520. Are these the best two options? --- Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous with many resources for the blind. http://www.lennymchugh.com Lenny Please Copy a