SONY Microcassette Transcriber
Originating from the world of office equipment, microcassette recorders, such as dictation devices, have occasionally been used to collect interviews for oral archive collections. Two recording speeds are available: 2.4 cm/s or 1.2 cm/s. Naturally, a medium operating at such a low speed inevitably generates significant background noise. Therefore, in addition to digitizing the microcassettes, it may be necessary to implement an audio restoration solution to eliminate the most disruptive noise elements and recover intelligible speech.
The SONY BM-850 is a desktop microcassette transcriber, designed for accurate and efficient voice playback in dictation and transcription digitization workflows:
Key features:
✔ Variable speed control – Adjust playback speed, to match the original recording speed.
✔ Tone & volume adjustments – Optimize sound output for enhanced speech intelligibility.
✔ Built-in speaker & headphone mini-jack – comes with 3,5mm jack to rca converter cable.
The Sony BM-850 microcassette transcribers remains an essential tool for accuracy and ease of use, reliability when migrating legacy tape collections.
