If you use this to record minutes for a meeting, what kind of output will you get from Dragon. I am familiar with dictation uses of Dragon.
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Although I use this recorder with a Macbook Pro which is not compatible with the software interface, I do know others that have used it on a PC with Dragon. As long as you obtain a clean recording (one w/o a lot of background noise such as street sounds, music, etc) the transcription of the recording to text through Dragon is fairly accurate. It will be necessary to validate conversion especially if the recordings come from multiple voices / accents. And it will not be able to distinguish between differennt speakers so you will need to annotate the text with each speaker's name.
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I love the device, but I haven't used the Dragon yet. The sound quality is amazing, so if you already use Dragon, the voice quality will be more than adequate to decipher it.
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With this device (and any other digital recorder, for that matter) you can save literally hundreds of dictations. Contrary to other opinions, the microphone on this devise is actually extremely sensitive according to my experience. One can literally record conversations very clearly from across the room.
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It would be good for dictation, but why you use it? When you can get an USB microphone and do the same thing! Normally all these USB microphones come with podcast software that you can use to dictate. Hope the answer was helpful.
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I do not know. I use it to record classes and meetings. If you use a speaker phone, it would certainly do for that.
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I've never used Dragon, so I really can't say. I looked through the manual, but nothing is mentioned on that subject. You can check their website at www.philips.com/welcome.
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I am hoping to buy an Olympus DS-40 recorder to use with my Mac laptop in conjunction with Mac Speak.. so that I can record and then transfer my recording to a word processor document. Has anyone done this and do you have advice or help for me on using Mac Speak w/ a digital recorder.
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Hi Chad,Don't use the record out, but any other output should do.Good luck!
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I think it's great for recording a lecture, It's a voice recorder after all. I mostly use it for music/voice solo recordings and short story recordings, and it works well.
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I did not keep this recorder; I didn't like it, so I returned it. I've been using my iPhone with the Dictamus app to record notes or conversations, and it's very easy to continue a recording session.
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I don't use Dragon, but this is a very clear, high quality headset. I think it would work with speech recognition software, no problem.
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I have no experience with Dragon or voice recognition software, sorry I can't help you there. I'll try testing it though.
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If you just need something to listen to then it might be useful. Most of the use as been for lectures at school in my case. For your purposes, I wonder if there are programs that convert the recording into musical notes like how Dragon does dictation into written words, have one that does music sheets from the recording or shows music graphics on tghe computer from the recording.
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Recording quality for me has been excellent. I use an external mic for voice work for audio-books. Haven't used the internal, built-in mics much, so I can't speak to their recording quality.
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It will only record your voice. I tried using it to record meetings and was unsuccessful. It's product information is clear about that, but I decided to try anyway.
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I do not personally use Dragon however when using with Skype it required the download of an "API" which I think means additional code to provide functionality for the device. Something similar may be required for Dragon. Definitely worth a little research.
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I use it for Dragon dictation. The mic is great for that purpose, but it's sensitive to external sound sources so I'm not sure it would work with speakers your playing game audio. If you do try it, play around with volume settings to get it right as sometimes too high or low volume affects recognition of commands.
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I received a Phillips digital recorder boxed with my version of Dragon speak 12.0. I have yet to use it, however and do not know if other digital recorders would be compatible but I assume so.