Olympus WS-812 Digital Voice Recorder - 4Gb
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** DISCONTINUED - REPLACED BY THE OLYMPUS WS-832 **
The new Olympus WS-812 digital voice recorder, perfect for recording voice notes, interviews, sound bites, meetings or for capturing the voice of your lecturer or presenter at a conference.
Its design and engineering make the Olympus WS Series range a consummate blend of versatility and functionality, conceived to get the job done no matter whether you’re working or playing. At a single glance, it already gets a clear thumbs up - impressing with an ultra-slim body, lightweight build and super-stylish finish. But there is so much more hidden away inside: all Olympus WS Series digital voice recorders include a music player, calendar search, Scene Select, Index Marks as well as a Noise Cancel feature and offer excellent high-sensitivity stereo sound quality for recording personal notes, interviews, small meetings or conversations. Besides 4GB of storage capacity, the Olympus WS-812 offers linear PCM recording that enables CD-quality sound and an integrated music player for relaxing to your favourite tunes after a hard day of recording. It also has easily as much memory capacity as you will ever need (more than 1000 hours), cutting edge features like Voice Playback, Voice Balancer or Voice Changer plus a super handy integrated USB stick to keep life extra-easy.
The Olympus WS-812 Features Include
- Mac & Windows Compatible
- High quality WMA/MP3 music playback
- Retractable USB connector
- Built-in stereo microphones
- Noise Filter
- Voice Balancer (what's that?)
- Voice playback (what's that?)
- Voice Changer (what's that?)
- 5 folders for file storage, 200 messages per folder
- Recording and Playback Scene
- Voice activated recording (VCVA)
- Include Earphones
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Olympus WS-812 Technical Specs
Classification
- Product Class : Digital Notetakers with Direct PC Connection
- Mobile / Stationary : Mobile
Storage Media
- Internal / Removable Media : Internal + Removable
- microSD / microSDHC card : Yes
- Internal Memory : 4 GB
USB functionality
- Direct USB Connection : Yes
- USB Speed : USB 2.0 High Speed
- USB Composite device : Yes
- USB Audio class : Yes
- USB Storage class : Yes
- USB HID : Yes
Display
- Display colour : White
- Display Backlight : LED ( White )
- Display Size : 27.56 x 23.9 mm / 1.43 ''
- Display Type : Full Dot Matrix Display (108 x 84)
Device Operation
- Main Switch : Push
- HOLD switch : Yes
- Power switch : Yes
Recording Modes
- Recording format : PCM (WAV) or MP3 or WMA (Windows Media Audio)
- WMA STXQ : 65 h
- WMA STHQ : 129 h
- WMA HQ : 259 h
- WMA SP : 511 h
- WMA LP : 1016 h
- MP3 256 kbps : 33 h
- MP3 128 kbps : 66 h 30 min
- Maximum Recording Time : 1,016 hours (WMA 8kbps - LP Mode)
Playback Modes
- Playback format : WMA (5 kbps - 320 kbps) / MP3 (8 kbps - 320 kbps) WMA DRM9, PCM WAV (44.1kHz / 16bit)
Sampling frequency
- WMA STXQ : 44.1 kHz / 128 kbps
- WMA STHQ : 44.1 kHz / 64 kbps
- WMA HQ : 44.1 kHz / 32 kbps
- WMA SP : 22 kHz / 16 kbps
- WMA LP : 8 kHz / 8 kbps
- MP3 44.1kHz / 256kbps
- MP3 44.1kHz / 128kbps
- PCM WAV " 44.1kHz / 16bit
Frequency response
- WMA STXQ 40 - 19.000 Hz
- WMA STHQ 40 - 16.000 Hz
- WMA HQ 40 - 13.000 Hz
- WMA SP 40 - 8.000 Hz
- WMA LP 40 - 3.000 Hz
- MP3 192 kbps (MP3) 40 - 20.000 Hz
- MP3 128 kbps (MP3) 40 - 17.000 Hz
- PCM WAV - 40 - 21.000 Hz
Record function
- Recording Scenes : Lecture, Conference, Meetings, Dictation, Speech-Recognition, Individual-User Presets
- Partial Erase : No
- Erase single files : Yes
- Erase folders : Yes ( Music )
- Erase all files : Yes
- Manual Rec level control : Yes
- Zoom Mic. Setting (DVM) : No
- Timer recording : No
- VCVA recording : Yes VCVA (voice activation) for hands free recording
- Index : Up to 99 per file
- Rec Monitor : Yes
- Overwrite : No
- Low Cut-Filter : Yes
- Voice Sync : Yes
Playback function
- Playback Scenes : Voice 1, Voice 2, Music 1, Music 2, Music 3
- Forward / Reverse Skip : Yes
- Repeat playback : Yes
- File Playback : Yes
- Folder Playback : Yes
- All Files Playback : Yes
- Voice Changer : Yes
- Voice playback : Yes
- Equalizer : Yes ( Music )
- Noise canceling function : Yes
- A-B repeat playback : Yes
- Random playback : Yes
- Sound enhancement : Yes ( Voice Balancer )
- Fast forward and rewind : Yes
- Playback Speed Control : Yes
- Playback speed : Fast (10 steps Max. x2.0) / Slow (5 steps Min. x0.5)
Data organisation
- No. of folders for Voice : 5
- Folder Music : Max. 300
- Files per folder : 200
- File move : Yes
- File Copy (Folder to Folder) : Yes
- File Replace : Yes
- File divide : Yes (Only MP3 and WAV files)
- Folder Podcasts : No podcast support
- Calendar Search : Yes
Other Features
- FM Radio Tuner & Recorder : No (WS-813 only)
- Podcast support : No
- Voice feedback / guidance : No
- Beep signal (system sound) : Yes
Software
- Corresponding Audio software (name) : Sonority
Interfaces Input
- Microphone sensitivity : High / Middle / Low
- PC interface : USB Storage class
- Microphone jack : Yes
- Microphones : Built-in stereo microphones ( Directional )
Interfaces Output
- Speaker Diameter : Built-in ø 18 mm round dynamic speaker
- Max. working output : 80mW
- Earphone jack : Yes
Power Supply
- Power Supply : 1 x AAA Ni-MH rechargeable battery (charge inside device) or AAA battery
- Alkaline battery life : Recording: 27 h (LP mode)
- Playback : 30 h via earphones
- Battery charge : Yes
- Device standalone recharge via USB : Yes
Dimensions
- WxHxD : 100.2 x 40 x 14.8 mm
- Housing colour : Black
- Housing material : Plastic
Languages
- Menu languages : JP/EN/FR/DE/IT/ES/RU/PL/BR/CS/SV/NL/DA/CN/TW
Hardware Security
- Lock single files : Yes
Operating Systems & Requirements
- Windows Operating system: Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Vista, Windows 7
- Macintosh Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4.11 - 10.7 (Lion)
