I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an 80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

6. Voice actuated. The software should sense the gaps and not record
silence.

Robert Morein wrote:

6. Voice actuated. The software should sense the gaps and not record
silence.

Irrelevant. It is easy to discard silence afterwards, but there is no
fix for delayed startup truncation.

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"Peter Larsen" wrote in message
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Robert Morein wrote:

6. Voice actuated. The software should sense the gaps and not record
silence.

Irrelevant. It is easy to discard silence afterwards, but there is no
fix for delayed startup truncation.

In the context of sound production, discarding silence is easy.

In this case, the recordings are for private use; to be transcribed, with
parts of the transcription to be used for text.

The idea is to go through as many hours as possible with the least possible
effort.

As a digital solution has an inherent "lookahead buffer", a VOX equivalent
could be easily implemented.

Robert Morein wrote:

I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

A minidisk recorder with an AT825 stereo mic is the modern day
replacement of the cassette recorder. Don't use a computer for this
quest just because you have one.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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I have little experience with XP, but I have found that running other apps
while recording through the sound card often results in glitches or total
lockups of the recording software.
This happens especially if the recording is in progress and another program
starts.

Mark Z.

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"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Yes, but note-taking is a low intensity app.

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
...
I have little experience with XP, but I have found that running other apps
while recording through the sound card often results in glitches or total
lockups of the recording software.
This happens especially if the recording is in progress and another
program
starts.

Mark Z.

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"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person
remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with
an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a
dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Low intensity doesn't matter - voices would glitch just as well. I think
it's a matter of system resource allocation.

Mark Z.

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"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
Yes, but note-taking is a low intensity app.

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
...
I have little experience with XP, but I have found that running other
apps
while recording through the sound card often results in glitches or
total
lockups of the recording software.
This happens especially if the recording is in progress and another
program
starts.

Mark Z.

--
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have rendered my regular e-mail address useless.


"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person
remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with
an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a
dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
...
I have little experience with XP, but I have found that running other apps
while recording through the sound card often results in glitches or total
lockups of the recording software.
This happens especially if the recording is in progress and another
program
starts.

Mark Z.

--
Please reply only to Group. I regret this is necessary. Viruses and spam
have rendered my regular e-mail address useless.


"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person
remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with
an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a
dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.






if you have enough memory i.e. 256mb or more of RAM,
then dump the page file (swap file or virtual memory), Windows runs a lot
smoother without it.
and there's a noticeable speed increase too.
regards malcolm

then dump the page file

Not quite sure what you mean. I have 512meg of RAM.

mz

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"Mark D. Zacharias" wrote in message
...
I have little experience with XP, but I have found that running other
apps
while recording through the sound card often results in glitches or
total
lockups of the recording software.
This happens especially if the recording is in progress and another
program
starts.

Mark Z.

--
Please reply only to Group. I regret this is necessary. Viruses and spam
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"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person
remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with
an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a
dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.






if you have enough memory i.e. 256mb or more of RAM,
then dump the page file (swap file or virtual memory), Windows runs a lot
smoother without it.
and there's a noticeable speed increase too.
regards malcolm

"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.


Answering my own question, http://www.xemico.com/pvr/index.html#

Robert Morein wrote:

I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an 80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Instead of laptop, you might consider using a PDA (e.g., HP iPAQ) with
Pocco Software's Wichita installed.

And if you need high quality uncompressed recording with the PDA, you
might have a look at our PDAudio system.



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Robert Morein a écrit :

I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an 80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Hi Bob,
As I know that you like the "gadgets" you should have a look to this :

http://www.packardbell.com/pb_audioKey.pdf

Quoted from the *.pdf file :
"Voice recording: IMA-ADPCM encoding – About *8 hours* recording at
128MB memory"

Lionel wrote in message ...
Robert Morein a écrit :

I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an 80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Hi Bob,
As I know that you like the "gadgets" you should have a look to this :

http://www.packardbell.com/pb_audioKey.pdf

Quoted from the *.pdf file :
"Voice recording: IMA-ADPCM encoding – About *8 hours* recording at
128MB memory"

You may try the software http://www.supermp3recorder.com
I believe it meets almost all of your wishes.

http://www.iomega.com/software/listi...ml&submit=Find

This is an old but cool piece of software that I used to use to record
college lectures on my laptop

Carl


"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.

Im sorry - This software apparently will not run on windows XP or NT
Carl

"carl" wrote in message
m...

http://www.iomega.com/software/listi...ml&submit=Find

This is an old but cool piece of software that I used to use to record
college lectures on my laptop

Carl


"Robert Morein" wrote in message
...
I'm writing a biography.
I visit the subject of the biography and listen to the person
remininsce.
I take copious notes on the laptop.
I used to use a cassette recorder as well.

Since this is a modern XP laptop -- full duplex A/D D/A Centrino, with
an
80
gb hard disk, it has all the hardware required to function as a
dictation
machine. It would be much easier to cue than tapes.

My wish list includes:
1. An all-in one program.
2. Compresses to mp3.
3. AGC -- automatic gain control.
4. easy editor to allow me to add cue points.
5. Background operation -- should be a given with all modern hardware.