Good for doing transcription?
1839752
Excellent. I make a living as a legal transcriptionist with it. It makes the volume of the jobs I get even clearer and crisper.
1839753
I use this device for medical transcription. It is so helpful for deciphering dictation with background noises interfering with doctors' dictations, and doctors who hold the recorder too far away while dictating. A+++++++++
1839754
Not quite sure what you are doing but..... I use this to boost the audio on my travel notebook as it does not have a very goodaudio system. I use this on aircrafts to overcome the background noise and it works great.
1839755
Yes, I'm a court reporter and use it to work on my transcripts. Just be sure to keep extra batteries because if the battery dies it stops working.
1839756
Not sure what you mean by transcriptions, but what I use it for is to use earphones and extra speakers and still have an extra outlet. It reproduces with excellent quality
535285
I'm a medical transcriptionist. I think it's great for typing, not very stiff at all.
1870927
Hello, I use it for my radio program, and I do believe it would be rather costly for just conversaitons. This is a great recorder very clear.
1210998
Yes. This recorder does work with the Dragon software. You need the Premium version, not the Home version in order to be able to transcribe files from audio to text with it. It does work, however, it's ability to create perfect documents from your audio will only be as good as it can understand your enunciation (set by your user profile).
1599924
I've used the OCR and it works reasonably well. The only issue i have with it is that it creates blocks of text in Word that have to be treated individually rather than as an entire document.
907337
I am a little confused what you are trying to do, just dictate or to be able to transcribe it as well. The pedal is only for the transcription part of it and as far as the "hands free", that is confusing as well as you are dictating into the DS recorder itself. I wouldn't call it hands free? Feel free to write me back. I deal with both the dictation and transcription with Olympus.
1726402
As long as you have a DAW.this thing has help me with so many of my productions.its great and it's a good price
1365001
I have been using it for my home recording projects,( I sing on karaoke tracks for a hobby). it serves my purpose very well and I like the quality of recording I get from it. It is really good for the price. I would recommend it. If you are looking for more advanced/professional use you may want to explore more options.
1806639
I use it for a purchased copy of Express Scribe... It would most likely work for basic versions as the software probably just has less features if it's a free version.
1991454
Yes, though I doubt it will be high-quality. It works great on my class lectures. Check for copyrights first, and watch out for the battery life of the recorder, then go wild.
907339
I agree with Nancy. A pedal gives you hands free transcription. It doesn't do much for dictation. You could use a program like Express Dictate for hands free dictation, but you would need a headset and still have to start a dictation by pressing record.
921057
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.
1224330
if you can play what you've recorded to the transcription app at similar volume and freedom from distortion the app would get from a microphone, it should transcribe taped material as well as spoken material. I wouldn't try it in a lecture though unless you're allowed to set the recorder on the podium.
181312
I do not know the answer to your question. I have a 720 Philips Transcription System.
1870925
This is a great recorder, and it record in high quality... I think if you just want to record conversations, you could probably find a simpler recorder. I use that all the time as musician, because I can have a real notion of how I played listen to the recording that this thing make. Yes, if you just want record conversations, it is better to find a simpler recorder... :)
2106102
Absolutely. I use it to pull in people's Word docs (95-2009) all the time easily. The only issues you'll ever face are if a document has extreme levels of graphs/images/styling/outlining - sometimes those items don't convert perfectly. Most people don't create documents for which that's ever been a problem for me or anyone else in our company, though.
1724554
The transcriptioning is two-fold.....first a computer automatically scripts words as fast as the speaker can talk (at least for us in Connecticut) and an online human keeps the words true and sensible. I find it keeps up well with the conversation, as long as you remember not to read back the onscreen words, which then are typed in, which then gets read out loud, etc. It keeps up, and the majority is in clear, accurate language.