The dot paper notepad that comes with the pen has pre-printed controls on the bottom of each page that resemble something you’d see in GarageBand. To take advantage of the text and audio features, you must use the Smartpen with Livescribe’s dot paper the tiny dots on the paper are used by the pen as points of reference for the audio. While not necessarily practical, it’s a cool parlor trick and speaks to the versatility of the pen. You can even mix in rhythms and different sounds.
By pushing the pen down on your hand-drawn keys, the pen will play music.
#Livescribe desktop for pulse pen how to
I was impressed by the piano program, which instructs you how to write piano keys onto the page. You can scroll through the pen’s menus on the page. By drawing a simple X and Y axis, the pen detects a menu icon has been written. It’s a useful solution for anyone tasked with gathering and organizing information-college students, professionals, or anyone who uses pen and paper.”ĭuring the demonstration, I saw some of the more unconventional features of the Smartpen. “Forty-three percent of people we surveyed between the ages of 25 and 54 said they are looking for technology gifts that are ‘useful’ this holiday season,” said Marggraff. There’s a lot to learn before you really get the hang of it and you’ll have to keep purchasing paper and ink cartridges, but if you really need something like this, then the benefits are more than likely worth it.Marggraff believes that Smartpen uniquely addresses a common problem. VERDICT: A useful, powerful and comprehensive device that will save a lot of time and effort for many people. The reasonably steep learning curve towards getting the most out of the device can be a little daunting. An absolute godsend for note takers.ĬONS: With its requirement for proprietary paper and ink cartridges, you’ll need to keep forking out for them to keep using the Pulse smartpen. Menu navigation is simple, intuitive and fun. PROS: Records up to 400 hours of audio on-device (4GB version), which can then be transferred to your PC. However, anyone whose job requires them to wade through hours of recorded audio to transcribe the important parts will probably tell you it’s well worth it. You’ll need to keep stocking up on the required proprietary notebooks, and they’re not cheap – starting from $39.95 for a four-pack of A5 spiral notebooks. There’s another program that will convert your handwritten notes into text usable in Word documents, but you’ll need to pay extra for that.
It doesn’t, however, transcribe your recorded audio to text understandable, but if the device could do that, it’d be nigh on perfect. You can save your written notes to your computer as searchable documents too, and all associated audio will remain intact.
#Livescribe desktop for pulse pen archive
The accompanying software, Livescribe Desktop, allows you to upload and archive both your written notes and the recorded audio by simply docking your Pulse smartpen to its USB connector. The lecturer’s recorded comments are then forever linked to that written heading and can be accessed by simply tapping it, saving considerable transcription time. Here’s an example: if a lecturer starts talking about an important topic, a student could tap the record ‘button’ at the bottom of the page, write a heading, and then hit the stop ‘button’ once the lecturer moves on. There’s even a ‘calculator’ on the inside front cover of the notebook. There are ‘buttons’ at the bottom of each physical page that allow you to activate many of the pen’s features: record, pause, stop, jump (forwards and backwards) and volume among others. You can then replay that audio by simply tapping the pen on the corresponding notation. It can then record and assign audio to those notations and to a specific time of day. Using specially made paper consisting of thousands of tiny dots, the pen is able to recognise notations on a page thanks to an on-board camera. As such, the Pulse smartpen is a great solution for journalists, secretaries, students or anyone else who might have a use for transcribed audio notes. In a nutshell, this device allows you to synch recorded audio to your written notes.
0 kommentar(er)
