Strategy: Speeding up recordings and adding to OneNote

8 Keywords: Lectures, Note Taking, Onenote, PowerPoint, Planning, Writing, Recording, Notetaking

OneNote with audio file"Before lectures, I print the slides into OneNote, ready to be annotated with my own notes. After the lecture, I can search everything in my notebook - including text, handwriting, recordings, the printed slides and any text in images."

Olympus recorder play button"Sometimes my lecturers digress from the content. If I am using a digital voice recorder I can speed up these sections of the recording to get to the information I need."

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On the Olympus DS40 a quick way to speed up the speech is to press the bottom part of the play button on the side of the recorder - to return to normal speed press the upper part again. This works on other DS recorders as demonstrated in the photograph.

 

Quote

"There are times when I find it hard to take notes when lecturers begin to talk about other subjects than the one related to the title of the session."

- Russell

Tip

Recording tips can be found on the LexDis strategy about recording lectures and there are some specific experiences of using recorders with speech recognition for reading notes and for recording and transcribing dictation for assignments etc.