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From: phmb@otter.hpl.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Good Tape/Mike for Secretary (hard of hearing)
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Date: 17 Jul 90 13:50:00 GMT
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I wonder if anybody has any suggestions. I know somebody who refuses to
wear any sort of hearing aid, but hears less and less as time goes on.
He has a job as a secretary to a board and has to take accurate minutes.
This is clearly a problem when he mis-hears something. The question is
if there is a tape recorder/microphone combination that could help. The
characteristics that I would see would be voice actuation, minimal
inteference from non-voice sounds and high sensitivity. Lowish cost
would be nice.

I am pretty sure that the perfect box to the above specs does not exist,
however, I would like to know of anything that is close in some regards -
though perhaps not so good in others.

Peter Brooks