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I also have questions and have not yet purchased a digital recorder. First understand that recorded lecture or music doesn’t become text without additional steps and software. I tried using the “voice memos” on my iPhone to capture lectures with the belief that I could playback the lecture to my computer using the “dictation/speech” software. Apparently the dictation software is same used for voice texting that often incorrectly translates.
When I used the dictation software it could not keep up, it lagged behind struggling to understand and find words in a data base. From my brief experience any dictation software will be unable to keep up with normal speech. My question is can the recorded speech on a digital recorder be slowed down enough to allow dictation software to work. The only other option is to listen to the digital recording, pausing to repeat a few lines to assure that the dictation software translates completely and correctly.