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Recorder Placement:
Dictation:
hold the recorder about 4 inches from your mouth. Do not talk directly
into the microphone. Hold it in such a manner that the sound passes by
the microphone not directly into it. Set the microphone sensitivity on Low.
Conference Recording:
place the unit on a book, not directly on the surface of
the table or the desk. This will eliminate or minimize sound transfer from
the hard surface of the table created by any hand movements. Set the
the recorder in the High microphone sensitivity mode.
Lecture Recording:
place the unit on a book, not directly on the surface of
the table or the desk. This will eliminate or minimize sound transfer from
the hard surface of the table created by any hand movements. Set the
the recorder in the High microphone sensitivity mode and activate the
directional mic mode if available on your recorder. Face the microphone
in the direction of the person speaking.
Rec / Pause:
easy to use operation for dictating found on the ICD-ST10 and the
ICD-MS515. Press the “Dictate” button to start recording and then press
the “Dictate” button to pause and gather your thoughts. To continue
recording press the “Dictate” button again. Note that each time you press
the button you hear a beep tone to confirm that you have pressed the
button. In addition, when you are in Pause, the LCD screen shows a
flashing “PAUSE” and the red operation light also flashes. When you
continue recording the red LED will stop flashing.
Note: the “beep” sound will not be recorded.
Rec / Stop:
starts recording when you press the “Dictate” button and stops
recording when you press the “Dictate” Button again. This also
ends the dictation. When you press the “Dictate” button again it
creates a new dictation.
Overwrite Function:
available on the ICD-MS515, ICD-ST10 and the ICD-P17
enables the user to correct their dictation by listening through the
last correct word of their existing dictation and pressing the Rec
button. All the dictation in the current recording after the user
presses the Rec button will be erased and replaced by the new
dictation. For example: dictation “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10”
In playback press the “Rec” button after hearing the “5” in playback and
dictate “ A B” and then stop the recording. In playback you will hear
“1 2 3 4 5 A B”. Even though the new dictation “A B” is shorter in
recording time than “6 7 8 9 10”, you will only hear the “A B”. With some
other digital recording devices because the recording which is overwriting
is shorter than the original recording, there will be some of the old
dictation still heard which confuses the person transcribing and could
create some problems in the documentation. In this case, the playback
might be heard as “1 2 3 4 5 A B
8 9 10
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