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Transferring microcassettes to wave files - mom22nc

Posted: Oct 31, 2009

Anyone out there know of a way to transfer dictated info on microcassettes to wave files?

Thanks In Advance.

A couple of ways to do it... - Varmint_hunting

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I used to do it the low-tech way when I couldn't get one of my dictators off his tape machine for love nor money--but my desktop transcription tape machine had bitten the dust, and all I had was a hand-held with speaker, which of course couldn't be run with a foot pedal.

So I used to just turn on the recording software on the computer and set the microphone right next to the speaker on the hand-held, and push play.

You could also use a hand-held digital recorder, if you have one, and just playback on the tape machine (on speaker) and record on the digital recorder. Clear as mud?

Somewhere recently I read that someone else had some success with using an audio cable of some kind, going from the headphone jack on the transcriber machine to the microphone input on the computer. (?) I have no experience with that, and maybe the helpful folks at Radio Shack could assist with something like that....

(And the end of the above story on the dictator was that he was forced, finally, to switch to a digital recorder when my last remaining tape machine died and I said that's it, I'm not buying another one.)

Recording a micro to wave - DS

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If you go to Radioshack and get an audio cable, you can then plug it into the mic plug of your transcriber and then into the back of your computer (another mic plug). I have Express Scribe and you can record directly into that, save, and then transfer to whoever. Just remember to unplug any headset, footpetal from the micro transcriber first and make the necessary adjustments to volume. I was very surprised how easily I was able to do it. Radioshack also has a $8.00 microphone that can also be used to record directly into Express Scribe from the providers office at the computer as a wave file and I have them transfer it to me over an FTP. Hope that helps.

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