Olympus DM450For advice on accessing this and other resourcesplease go tohttp://www.abdn.ac.uk/it/services/atech/dictaphones.phpA Dictaphone is a small, portable devicecapable of high quality audio recording. Youcan think of these devices as an MP3 player inreverse and there is a number of differentstrategies for their use.How to…Turn on, off and lock the keys• To turn on, slide the switch down andhold until the screen comes on.• To turn off, do the same until it goesoff.• To lock the keys (handy for thoselong, important lectures. Textmissing?Find your way around• Navigate the menus using the left(forward), right (back), up (+) anddown (-)buttons, with the central ‘ok’button to confirm a selection.• The the Dictaphone’s storage isdivided into 5 folders (A, B, C, D andE) into which, you can record youraudio files. Choose ‘Recorder’ andthen navigate to the desired folder.Record• Select the folder you wish to recordinto.• Press REC to start recording.• To finish recording, press STOP.• To pause a recording without closingthe file, press the REC button (once topause and again to restart).Add Index marks (bookmarks)• Pressing the SCENE button during arecording adds an ‘index’ mark.• This allows you to easily find thatposition later.Listen to your recordings• To play a recording back, select thefile and use PLAY and STOP.• Press the forward and back buttons toskip between files or index marks (seeabove)• To fast forward and rewind duringplayback, press and hold the left orright buttons. (note that by defaultthis will skip the audio in 10 secondblocks by default)• Fast forward and rewinding a file(press and hold) while the playback isstopped will move faster through thefile.Copyright 2011 University of Aberdeen Page 1