The gorillas in the dictation hardware industry - Philips and Olympus - have had card slot devices for quite some time. Sanyo is a minor player in this game. The power users of these devices - lawyers and doctors - create dictations that are 1-15 minutes long and submit them for transcription ASAP. They do not store hours and hours of work to be transcribed at some point in the future. Adding hard disc space is merely technology upmanship with scant regard for the reality of how these devices are used in the real world. How about some real innovation like making the digital recorder vibrate a little when it is recording so that the author knows it is recording without looking at the screen. This is how doctors and lawyers know a tape device is recording - tape mechanism vibration.
Simon http://www.acappella.com.au Acappella is a portable Conference Audio Solution that records multiple attendees in CD quality sound and during playback, tells the transcriptionist who is speaking.
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simon_berglund @ Nov 7th 2007 6:24PM
The gorillas in the dictation hardware industry - Philips and Olympus - have had card slot devices for quite some time. Sanyo is a minor player in this game. The power users of these devices - lawyers and doctors - create dictations that are 1-15 minutes long and submit them for transcription ASAP. They do not store hours and hours of work to be transcribed at some point in the future. Adding hard disc space is merely technology upmanship with scant regard for the reality of how these devices are used in the real world. How about some real innovation like making the digital recorder vibrate a little when it is recording so that the author knows it is recording without looking at the screen. This is how doctors and lawyers know a tape device is recording - tape mechanism vibration.
Simon
http://www.acappella.com.au
Acappella is a portable Conference Audio Solution that records multiple attendees in CD quality sound and during playback, tells the transcriptionist who is speaking.