A portable disc recorder control apparatus operable both upon insertion of a recording disc and manipulation of a single control button. After insertion and positioning of the disc, such functions and operations as special instruction recording, stopping, ejecting, playing, and reviewing are controlled by the apparatus. These functions and operations are initiated through the single control button.
An arrangement for the electrical control of the keyboard of a video or audio tape recorder includes electromechanical levers acting on the usual rod system associated with the keyboard in substitution of the conventional keys. The levers are essentially bellcranks and are associated with tumblers and electromagnets.
A method of recording an index signal in a dictating tape recorder of the type in which a single button is utilized to switch the recorder to each of a stop, a playback, a record and a tape rewind position. The method comprises moving the button beyond the record position to close a switch which actuates an oscillator for generating an index signal. The signal output from the oscillator is applied to a record head, thereby recording the index signal on a magnetic tape.
A method for improving dictation recorders and systems by providing a means to separately and independently record and store and, during any later dictation recording session, separately retrieve and audibly replay multiple dictation-indexing voice-prompt dictation cues, and thus by their successive replaying enable a dictator to be audibly prompted and thereby aided while dictating in conformance with a corresponding list, outline, instruction set, or standard form represented by said voice-prompt dictation cues.
