Comments on: Digital Voice Recorders – A Freelance Writer’s Best Friend

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:01:55 +0000

Vista / Win 7 may not be able to parse the digital file on the PC, but you could use the audio out from a digital recorder hooked up to the microphone input on your PC.

Start the windows speech recognition program, then hit play on your voice recorder and it should pick up the stream and convert it.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:04:43 +0000

Robert, Vista’s Speech Recognition software cannot transcribe from digital devices.

I’ve found each software program to have its pros and cons. One of Vista’s cons is the inability to transcribe from digital voice recorders.

By: Robert Bennett

Robert Bennett — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:56:41 +0000

Does anyone know if Vista’s Speech Recognition software can transcribe from what I’ve recorded onto a digital voice recorder? I know Dragon hs the capability but it seem superfluous to have both programs installe on m PC. Please respond to my email: rbennett[at]enablingwords[dot]com

Thanks

Robert

By: FreelanceFolder

FreelanceFolder — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:37:50 +0000

One tip is to look for a recorder that has an option to save recordings as MP3 files. This is more common recently, but some recorders only have proprietary file formats that can make using/sharing a recording more difficult. MP3's make for easier downloads to your computer and uploads to podcasting sites or your blog to make it easy to share interviews, testimonials etc. The sound quality of an MP3 may be lower than other formats, but the files are much smaller, and almost everyone can play them. Other files require specific software to edit them, or players to listen to files. As I said above, recording client testimonials is a great use of a digital voice recorder for freelancers. Translate them to text as above and post both on your site for powerful, believable recommendations form clients. FreelanceFolders last blog post..Open Thread: How Can We Improve FreelanceFolder?

By: brettbum

brettbum — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:17:18 +0000

I use a cheaper Sony voice recorder, but still get some great results with it powering Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 (I originally purchased it to work with version 9, and it worked fine then too.) brettbums last blog post..Dragon Naturally Speaking 10.1 Supporting Windows Vista 64-Bit OS Due to launch 3-25-09!