[MV] Re: Belkin Voice Recorder

[Andrew Chen]

Ok, I've been quite for a long time because I've been waiting for 
something like this, and because my use of voice/speech recognition has 
not been incredibly necessary recently - something that will probably be 
changing in the next few months.

Anyway, speaking as a glutton for punishment:

Since the Belkin Voice Recorder plugs into the microphone and remote 
plugs, shouldn't it be possible to do one of the following things?


1) Take the Voice Recorder, and attach a cable from the remote part of 
the iPod to the remote connection of the Voice Recorder, and put an 
audio cable splitter in between them, and have the split signal go out 
to the computer?
(For purposes of training with that particular microphone?) (Anyone know 
if the remote cable could be used for this? Or if we'd have to splice 
it?)

2) Forget the iPod and cable connection - just wire the audio plug from 
the microphone to the computer directly?

3) Getting brutal now: take apart the Voice Recorder and use just the 
microphone element for training?

4) Just accept poor accuracy? (Hopefully probably better than 70% ?)


Regardless of the format of the WAV file, surely it can be converted? (A 
tiny little program with a little bit of QuickTime knowledge?)

I know this isn't "recommended" - at least not at present - but it would 
be nice if it could somehow work, and perhaps there's some sort of 
(simple?) way to make that happen?

Thanks,
Andrew Chen
http://www.andrewsw.com


On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 12:42  PM, T. Patrick Henebry wrote:
> On 10/16/03 3:45 PM, "EKN" <niikwei at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> In view of the release of the new Belkin Voice Recorder for the ipod 
>> is it
>> possible to use this as a transcription with ilisten 1.6
>
>> From looking at the Belkin site it would appear impossible to connect a
> Voice Recorder equipped iPod to a Mac so that it can be used as a hand 
> held
> microphone. This type of connection is essential to training a voice 
> profile
> for use with the recorder. With out a matching voice profile accuracy 
> would
> be poor. Furthermore, the site does not give specifications on what 
> type of
> WAV file is produced.
>
> We advise against (and do not support) the use of the Belkin Voice 
> Recorder
> with iListen.
>
> For information on the digital recorders we support see:
>
> http://www.macspeech.com/edits/technotes/Olympus330.html (DS-330)
>
> http://www.macspeech.com/edits/technotes/ds2000.html (DS-2000)
>
> --
> T. Patrick Henebry
> MacSpeech, Inc.
> tphenebry at macspeech.com
>
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