Bluetooth Microphone?

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cd_kaufman

I use OneNote 2003 in college. My toshiba TecraM4 microphone stinks. As most
tablet mics do. I can use a wired Sony directional mic, but my classroom
deskspace is limited. Lecture halls are sound nightmares. My recordings are
nearly useless.

Does OneNote 2007 have any help, workaround , to support a bluetooth
microphone? OR:
If I could put my smartphone or pocketpc on the teachers desk along side
everyone's microtape recorders, bluetooth it back to OneNote, then life would
be great.. I can't believe no one requested this...

Thanks
Chris
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cd_kaufman

Ben M. Schorr - MVP said:
Aloha cd_kaufman,

It's really not up to OneNote to support or not support a particular microphone.
That service is provided by Windows. If Windows supports the microphone
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I understand that... This is not about hardware. This is a software
question...

1) OneNote 2007/12 has added PocketPC and SmartPhone features. Correct?
2) Will Mobile OneNote ever support realtime audio recording from
MobileOneNote app to OneNote tabletPC. Rather than syncing later? (Why do I
ask?)
3) If I use my PocketPC to record the Lecture on the teachers desk. (Better
quality)Can my tabletPC notes ever be sync'd as if I used the internal
microphone? SO that when I review my notes days later as I do now(without
PocketPC), I can click on any line and be brought back to that point in the
audio where I wrote that specific line?


If not why not?
 
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Daniel Escapa [MS]

1) OneNote 2007/12 has added PocketPC and SmartPhone features. Correct?
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Yes, OneNote Mobile. See info here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2005/11/21/494990.aspx

2) Will Mobile OneNote ever support realtime audio recording from
MobileOneNote app to OneNote tabletPC. Rather than syncing later? (Why do
I
ask?)
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OneNote Mobile will not support that for the Office 2007 release. You could
write your own application that would do this, but that might be out of the
scope of what you are trying to do and it might not work that great.

3) If I use my PocketPC to record the Lecture on the teachers desk.
(Better
quality)Can my tabletPC notes ever be sync'd as if I used the internal
microphone? SO that when I review my notes days later as I do now(without
PocketPC), I can click on any line and be brought back to that point in
the
audio where I wrote that specific line?
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You should be able to plug-in any microphone and just sync with OneNote. I
would recommend getting a wireless mic.
 
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Sven

I wouldn't put a lot of stock in OneNote Mobile solving this problem. You
would be opening a note, selecting Insert Recording, and starting the
recorder. I'd have some serious concerns that the Pocket version of OneNote
would make it through a lecture. The recorder on PPC has always been plagued
with the limitation of recording to the available memory, not to a storage
medium, and has never used a particularly efficient codec. I bet OneNote is
the same.

I'd say you are better off checking into a remote mic setup that would
normally be used for a video camera, and plugging the receiver into the mic
jack of the tablet.

I would guess that you could use a BT setup if you could find a BT mic. Not
sure if there is anything like that short of a phone headset (handsfree
thingy). No reason that shouldn't work if the Tablet supports the
headset/handsfree profile. Might be a bit dodgy trying to get the headset
connected, near the teacher for good pickup, and then starting the recorder
in OneNote.
 
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Rainald Taesler

cd_kaufman shared these words of wisdom:


Are you still listening, Chris?
3) If I use my PocketPC to record the Lecture on the teachers
desk. (Better quality)Can my tabletPC notes ever be sync'd as if
I used the internal microphone? SO that when I review my notes
days later as I do now(without PocketPC), I can click on any
line and be brought back to that point in the audio where I
wrote that specific line?
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This will definitely work and porbaly with better results than a
microphone somewhere in the lecture hall with its bad acoustics.
A few steps, however:

1.) Make the recording on the Pocket PC.
You may use the freeware tool NoteM for saving space as you can record
in the MP3 format which results in far smaller files than the standard
WAV-files produces by PocketPC recording.
http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=626
http://www.pdagold.com/software/detail.asp?s=30

2.) If possible, set the storage location for the recording on the PPC
to a SD card.
Gives you more space and makes transfer to the PC easier.

3.) Transfer the sound file to the PC (easiest way: card-reader for
the SD-card).

4.) Copy the sound-file into ON. Easiest way: Drag+Drop form the
file-manager.
When asked in the dialog, select "Insert a copy ..", do not only
insert a link.

5.) When done,you can make annotations the sound just as with any
recording made inside ON.

It's a really great feature.

Rainald
 
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Rainald Taesler

Sven shared these words of wisdom:
I wouldn't put a lot of stock in OneNote Mobile solving this
problem. You would be opening a note, selecting Insert
Recording, and starting the recorder. I'd have some serious
concerns that the Pocket version of OneNote would make it
through a lecture.
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Me too.
If this would work at all.
But why use the mini ON on the PDA if there's recording built-in in
the PDA and the sound files can easily be transferred into ON?
The recorder on PPC has always been plagued
with the limitation of recording to the available memory, not to
a storage medium,
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Seriously wrong.
On a PDA it's easy enough to record to a SD card.
And NoteM (freeware) makes pretty small MP3s.
and has never used a particularly efficient
codec. I bet OneNote is the same.
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Wrong again.
The quality of the WAV files taken on a PDA is quite good - depend on
the sampling rate one chooses.

Just today I copied the WAV file taken with my iPAQ when I held a
speech at a congress into ON. The recording of app. 50 min. had 22MB
(even a PDA without a SD card can master this) and the quality -
playback form ON via HiFi connected to the PC - was more than only
quite OK.

And annotating the sound during playback in ON works really great.

Rainald
 
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