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(3 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Product! Works very well!,
September 5, 2011 Dr. B - See all my reviews
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The Short:
Pros:
Excellent voice recording quality.
Long battery life.
Easy to use interface.
Large capacity.
Cons:
Bundled software is somewhat lacking.
No lanyard included even though there is a spot for one on the housing.
The Long:
As a physician I've used a variety of dictation software and recording systems and so far this is my favorite. The Philips Voice Tracer is a small handheld voice recorder that works as advertised and does just what you would want it to do. The capacity is around 70 hours even at the highest recording quality and all data is stored in a MP3 format. You can dock the unit to your desktop with a micro USB cord (included) and transfer all the audio directly to your computer. Record, delete, menu, and index buttons are easy to push and give good feedback when pressed. The unit is light and is easily carried in the pocket of your pants or shirt without being bulky...Read more
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
How to train your Dragon...,
April 28, 2011 C. F. Medeiros "Earthy wife" (Princeton, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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I was so excited that this recorder claimed to transcribe voice to text, but was higly disappointed. To start with, you have to train "train your Dragon" to your voice by reading a lengthy text they provide w/ the software. I guess "training a Dragon" is only for fairy tales, since this one is not very good at recognizing people's voices for meetings, as there're different people speaking consecutively, if not simutaneously (not to mention background noise from people shuffling around). Perhaps it would work best if you are in a quiet environment and speak very slowly and clearly.
Now, the recorder is reaaallly good!!! If it was just the recorder, I'd give it a 5 star, but "Dragon drags it down"
GREAT RECORDER; CRAPPY DRAGON.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Dutch should stick to tulips and chocolate cause this sucks,
July 20, 2011 John Claude Campbell, III (Annapolis, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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I have wasted an entire day so far with this almost one hundred dollar piece ____ (you fill in the blank). And you can talk to anyone about their products EXCEPT electronics which they give you a black hole email address to send your problems to.
my WinXP pro system found drivers but even on their utterly BROKEN website (Philips) Obviously written by an 8 year old. there appear to be no utility package that goes with the current model only thing on the website is for 2009 models (this one LF0635) is 2011.
It comes with Dragon speaking from Nuance who on their recordings deny any complicity with a bundled package and promise to charge you for a phone service call and want to send you back to Philips. (or suggest you give them $199 from an upgrade to their 'real product).
The dragon speak tells me that I have too little room on my D: drive to install their garbage and brings up a chart of all the drives it found on the system but GEE IT WON'T LET ME PICK ANY DRIVE BUT...Read more
