Voice Coil Interviews Dr. Richard H. Small

This interview with Dr. Richard H. Small, by Steve Mowry was originally published in Voice Coil in 2006. As Steve Mowry writes, “I hope that as you read through Richard H. Small’s answers and comments, the characteristics of wisdom and kindness blended with brilliance and diligence come to mind. Dr. Small’s accomplishments speak for themselves." "...perhaps most important, is that Richard Small exemplifies that engineering is a life-long learning experience.”

With the market literally flooded with multiple options of high quality audio recorders and alternative accessories for using smartphones for mobile recording, anyone recording video interviews is faced with multiple problems when capturing audio on camera. For interviews and events, Tascam now announced a great solution that was missing in the market with its DR-10L, an ultra-compact recorder with lavalier microphone.

Believe it or not, even in this smartphone era, dedicated dictation recorders still offer best-in-class voice recording in any situation, especially when considering pairing with available speech to text recognition applications and transcription services. Professional dictation specialists Philips Speech Processing Solutions, now offers its new Voice Tracer audio recorders range with 8 GB internal memory space, doubling the recording time of its previous models.

Erno Borbely is not a man given to bragging about his accomplishments. But from the venerable Hafler DH200 to today’s high-performance all-FET amplifiers from Borbely Audio, he has left his mark on 40 years of technological audio advancement. Jan Didden looked him up in his home close to Munich, Germany, and talked with him about audio and other tidbits.

Tascam continues to expand its range of recording solutions for all application areas. Already with an extended range of portable recorders with built-in microphones, the professional audio division of TEAC Corporation now announced the DR-10X, a recorder that can be attached to any handheld dynamic microphone for interviews and news gathering.