Student Use: How well does this product record in the larger setting?
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In my experience, if you can hear it, this will pick it up. I've set it in one end of my house and walked in a room at the other end and I could still play myself back talking. Since even in large classes, the students are generally quiet you should have no problem. I use in in class. If you hear a lot of backnoise, put the mic sensitivity on low. I'm extremely pleased with it.
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I'm glad you cleared up some of the remaining questions I had. Thank You.I also found YouTube and the website LiveScribe.com to be very helpful with a few little demos. I have put in my order to get the LiveScribe pen. (as well as a separate recorder, as you suggested). - When my college classes are over, I do put the 'key lessons/notes' into a binding machine to keep for later reference...so eventually I will find out if the dot paper will work (?) when punched. - I'm not sure, but I thought I heard that the Dot Paper could be PRINTED from a printer ? - Regardless, I am looking forward to using this cool, new technology. Thank you for your post :). I'm glad you cleared up some of the remaining questions I had. Thank You.I also found YouTube and the website LiveScribe.com to be very helpful with a few little demos. I have put in my order to get the LiveScribe pen. (as well as a separate recorder, as you suggested). - When my college classes are over, I do put the 'key lessons/notes' into a binding machine to keep for later reference...so eventually I will find out if the dot paper will work (?) when punched. - I'm not sure, but I thought I heard that the Dot Paper could be PRINTED from a printer ? - Regardless, I am looking... » Read More I'm glad you cleared up some of the remaining questions I had. Thank You.I also found YouTube and the website LiveScribe.com to be very helpful with a few little demos. I have put in my order to get the LiveScribe pen. (as well as a separate recorder, as you suggested). - When my college classes are over, I do put the 'key lessons/notes' into a binding machine to keep for later reference...so eventually I will find out if the dot paper will work (?) when punched. - I'm not sure, but I thought I heard that the Dot Paper could be PRINTED from a printer ? - Regardless, I am looking forward to using this cool, new technology. Thank you for your post :). « Show Less
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I am a student as well and used the recorder for class. .. You may want to sit as close as you are comfortable to make sure that you get a good sound quality. for all the classes that I used it for i sat on the second row..
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This is an actual voice recorder, great for college lectures and memo taking. The voice to print feature works through the Dragon software, which is included with the recorder but is only compatible with Windows, which is a mistake on the part of Sony. I bought this for my son when he was going through his architecture program in college and although the spelling of some of the extremely technical terms were sometimes phonetically spelled, they were easily recognizable and marked as unrecognized words. The things that makes this recorder really great are the moveable-omnidirectional mikes and the recording environment settings that allow you to change the way the recorder records, whether it be lecture hall, small classroom or as a hand-held memo taker, which allow you to optimize voice quality and subsequently transcription accuracy. With a little practice you'll know the best settings for your purposes. An finally, I have friends who speak English as a second language. Since Dragon is only English-to English transcription software, you can actually get rough translations in a native language using Babylon or Google translator. Sorry for the long winded response but I hope this helps.
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I just purchased a Toshiba D-VR610 DVD/VCR recorder (tunerless), for the purpose of copying my VHS tapes to DVD. Other than a poorly-written manual, I like the unit. I'm using rewriteable DVDs, so that I can learn how to use the unit without wasting DVDs.If you read through all of the reviews on the various websites (Amazon, Bestbuy, etc), you will find that this unit gets high marks by customers, whereas most other brands have various issues.
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I'm a grad student as well. I purchased office from amazon when I purchased the computer. This computer does everything I need to it for school. It's fast and reliable. I'm so happy I bought it.
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I just purchased a Toshiba D-VR610 DVD/VCR recorder (tunerless), for the purpose of copying my VHS tapes to DVD. Other than a poorly-written manual, I like the unit. I'm using rewriteable DVDs, so that I can learn how to use the unit without wasting DVDs. If you read through all of the reviews on the various websites (Amazon, Bestbuy, etc), you will find that this unit gets high marks by customers, whereas most other brands have various issues.
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I have not used this product to record as of yet. I used it to assist learning some choral music with previously recorded music that I transferred to SD. But now in curious and will test it out.
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you can but don't think it would be helpful...your best bet is to either buy the full version or the one with the mini box it comes with the software adn you don't have to be a student
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Assuming the student knows how to use a flash drive it should be fine. It will probably not take very much of a beating though and should be handled with reasonable care.
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it works really well in a classroom. record the lecture and review it when you are studying.
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Yes but care must be taken not to place on hard surface where everytime your neighbor drops a pencil it's like the fall of a giant redwood-- positioning and aiming the mics will be important. If you are too far from the lecturer to get his / her voice loud and clear, pick an unobtrusive place within a few feet of the lectern... no reason you can't give your recorder a better seat than you. Of course you may have to get creative if you don't want the recorder to be seen. Tape your lecturer at slow speed and play it back fast and you'll finish listening in half the time the recording took. (For conference taping when you and others sit with speaker around a big table, there is a special kind of mic you buy). But for a typical college lecture in a large lecture hall just get the recorder close enough, suitably camouflaged as needed. You need to be a bit of a techie to understand all the features, but you won't need all the features. Good luck!
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Good day Jemaul ! To be honest with you. It'd better if you take your time and find a cheap deal on the hardware, then get a "Student Edition" of the full software for cheap. Thatt's how I did it when I went into Pro Tools 10.
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It will work, but you will most likely run out of space especially since you are trying to record your lectures - which tend to be long. However if you offload it onto your itunes daily, you should be able to manage.
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I was worried about that also. However I have needed up using it differently. I record training conferences and what I ended up doing was recording in much smaller sections, 1) for ease of location of material that I needed and 2) the finished project was little videos on an intranet site. So while I record over 5 days worth of content stretching over 9 hours a day, I never ran into this problem since I found it easier to make the files smaller for ease of use and finding the exact content I needed. I know this does not help exactly, but look at how you will actually do the recording it may become moot as it did for me. Great device though, very handy. I was worried about that also. However I have needed up using it differently. I record training conferences and what I ended up doing was recording in much smaller sections, 1) for ease of location of material that I needed and 2) the finished project was little videos on an intranet site. So while I record over 5 days worth of content stretching over 9 hours a day, I never ran into this problem since I found it easier to make the files smaller for ease of use and finding the exact content I needed. I know this does not help exactly, but look at how you will actually do the recording it may... » Read More I was worried about that also. However I have needed up using it differently. I record training conferences and what I ended up doing was recording in much smaller sections, 1) for ease of location of material that I needed and 2) the finished project was little videos on an intranet site. So while I record over 5 days worth of content stretching over 9 hours a day, I never ran into this problem since I found it easier to make the files smaller for ease of use and finding the exact content I needed. I know this does not help exactly, but look at how you will actually do the recording it may become moot as it did for me. Great device though, very handy. « Show Less
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I wouldn't. It's good for recording something in a short distance like a study group, lectures are too far away even if you're in the front row because there may be a lot of background noise that should distort what you should want to hear. You can get a digital recorder for $20 or $30 with.better speakers for lectures.
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Glad to have helped, David. A little background on why I bought this. I'm embarking on the biggest free-lance writing project of my life: The history of University of Nebraska at Omaha hockey. I have an antique recorder that uses the mini-cassettes, but they last a maximum of 30 minutes per side. Some of my interviews already have exceeded an hour, so I use the digital recorder as a backup. The quality of the digital recorder is far superior to the old recorder. My final suggestion for you once you get it: Familiarize yourself with all the features to get the best use from it. Happy Holidays!