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<p class="header">Digitizing Sound - Digital Voice Recorders</p>
<p><span class="cm">Today, most professionals have made the switch to digital
voice recorders as the optimum method for creating instant digital audio
files. The benefits of this new technology are:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="cm">Audio recordings - or speech dictation files - are
highly compressed, and are saved as DSS (Digital Speech Standard) files</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Digital recorders use removable SmartMedia (Flash
Memory) cards, with a 128 MB card able to store 44 hours of audio in
LP (Long Playback) mode, or 22 hours in SP (Standard Playback) mode</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Fast downloads to your computer are achieved through
a USB (Universal Serial Bus) connection or optional USB Flash Card Reader</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Advanced search functions</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Ability to create different folders</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Integration with Voice Recognition Software (IBM
ViaVoice)</span></li>
<li><span class="cm">Minimal battery consumption</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span class="cm">The staff at Adjusters Asia currently use the new <span class="bold">Olympus
DS-3000 Digital Voice Recorder</span> for transcription recordings, and
a write-up on this nifty little device will be found shortly under the
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section of our site.</span></p>
<p class="header">Other Sources</p>
<p><span class="cm">Digitizing sound from a source other than a digital
voice recorder requires the following:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span class="bold">Microphone</span></li>
<li><span class="cm"><span class="bold">USB</span> (Universal Serial Bus)
<span class="bold">Port</span> on your computer for microphones equipped
with a USB connector</span></li>
<li><span class="cm"><span class="bold">Sound Card</span> with a <span class="bold">Mic-In</span>
input for microphones equipped with a jack plug</span></li>
<li><span class="cm"><span class="bold">Sound Card</span> with a <span class="bold">Line-In</span>
input if digitizing sound from external tape recorders or tape dictation
devices</span></li>
<li><span class="cm"><span class="bold">MP3 Maker/Recorder</span> software</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="header">Digitizing Sound to MP3 Format</p>
<p><span class="cm">Digital audio files, if not created in DSS format, must
be saved and/or converted to MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) format.</span></p>
<p><span class="cm">Like DSS, MP3 files are highly compressed - about one-twelfth
the size of waveform files (standard Windows sound files) - and are therefore
ideal for transferring over the Internet.</span></p>
<p><span class="cm"><span class="bold"><i>Never</i></span> send waveform
(.wav) files over the Internet, as these files are far too large and can
take forever to download, particularly if receiving multiple audio files
in a single day.</span></p>
<p><span class="cm">See our section on <a href="../mp3/mp3_frameset.htm" target="_top" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('Creating MP3 Files');return document.MM_returnValue" class="cm_link_2">Creating
MP3 Files</a> as the next step in digitizing sound.</span></p>
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