Ergonomics by Design Ltd. Combines Acoustic Magic’s Voice Trackertm Array Microphone With Sony Handheld Recorders as a Portable Meeting Recording Tool
Ergonomics by Design, Ltd. often uses Sony digital recorders to record meetings and interviews in varying conference rooms without very much notice as to when the discussions would start.The Voice Tracker™, used as an auxiliary microphone through the 3.5 mm jack on the handheld digital recorder, provided an ideal solution for this application due to its light weight, its portability and its immense recording range.
Pearce, Canberra, Australia (PRWEB) March 15, 2005 -- Ergonomics by Design,
Ltd. often uses Sony digital recorders to record meetings and interviews in
varying conference rooms without very much notice as to when the discussions
would start. Handheld recorders were initially chosen since they are extremely
portable. The only difficulty was the handheld recorder’s limited pickup range;
the rooms were large and the number of attendees would vary in every meeting.
The Voice Tracker™, used as an auxiliary microphone through the 3.5 mm jack on
the handheld digital recorder, provided an ideal solution for this application
due to its light weight, its portability and its immense recording
range.
According to Wendy Elford, Director of Ergonomics by Design, Ltd.
“The Voice Tracker ™ array microphone performed brilliantly. We used it with a
Sony ICD-BM1 and also on the laptop using the Microsoft sound recorder. With the
Voice Tracker™ we were able to catch speakers up to 6 m away. Our tests gave
excellent quality around a large conference table in a room approximately 5 m x
8 m.”
Karl Francois, National Solutions Manager with Voice Perfect
Systems, who worked with Ergonomics by Design, Ltd. on this application,
observed: “The Voice Tracker ™ array microphone performed equally well with
laptop based meeting recording software, offered by Lexacom and
others”.
Bob Feingold, CEO of Acoustic Magic notes that “The Voice
Tracker™ is a simple and cost effective alternative to installing an expensive
sound system with a separate microphone for each person”.
The Voice
Tracker™ locates a talker and electronically steers a “listening beam,” like an
acoustic searchlight, in that direction. This creates spatial filtering; sounds
and reverberation from other parts of the room are not picked up. In addition,
digital noise reduction processing removes background noise. This two-stage
noise reduction, coupled with the sensitivity of eight microphone elements,
gives the Voice Tracker™ outstanding range and sound quality.
About
Voice Perfect Systems
Voice Perfect Systems is a 100% Australian owned
company, formed in early 1994 to address the growing interest for large
vocabulary speech dictation for computer users. Recognizing the potential for
speech recognition systems, Voice Perfect became one of the pioneering
distributors of speech activated dictation software. For additional information,
visit www.voiceperfect.com or contact Karl Francois (e-mail
protected from spam bots).
About Acoustic Magic, Inc.
Acoustic Magic,
Inc., located near Boston, manufactures the Voice Trackertm desktop microphone
that has found application in speech recognition, meeting and transcription
recording, VoIP and conventional teleconferencing, voice control for home
automation, and security surveillance. The Voice Tracker™ Array microphone has
been Certified by Dragon and ViaVoice speech recognition software, HomeSeer and
HAL Home Automation software, as well as WinScribe dictation recording software.
For additional information, see www.AcousticMagic.com or
contact Bob Feingold (e-mail protected from spam bots, or 978 440
9384).
About Ergonomics by Design, Ltd.
Ergonomics by Design Pty Ltd
is an ergonomics consultancy formed in 2002 to assist organisations and
individuals to profit through the use of education and best practice standards
in human factors and ergonomics. For additional Information, see www.ergodesign.com.au
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