Voice Recording and Playback. Samsung YP-VP2, YP-VP2QB, DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER YP-VP2

Voice Recording and Playback

You can record voice, and playback recording and music files.

Voice

Recording

With Voice Recording, you can record conversations in meetings and lectures as well as your own voice.

To record voice

In the main menu, select .

Press to select a folder to save the recording.

Press .

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The recording starts.

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Press to pause recording.

Press to stop recording.

■ The recorded file is saved automatically.

Select <Yes> to play the recorded file.

Caution

• When making voice recording, do not bring the earphones close to you as this may cause noise in your recorded file.

• Do not save copyrighted material that you have recorded to other devices, such as a

PC, or distribute them to others without the permission of the content owners. Doing this may violate copyright laws. Samsung is not liable for any legal issues caused by the user’s illegal use of copyrighted material.

Voice Recording and Playback >

Voice Recording

Note

• Even when the power is off, press and hold the button to turn the recorder back on and start recording.

• When the battery is low, you cannot record voice memos.

• Up to 400 voice files can be saved in one voice folder.

• Recorded files are saved in a folder you have selected in

<MY FILES> → <Voice>.

• You can use the external microphone (optional, Φ3.5) for voice recording, or line-in cable (optional, Φ3.5) for recording music from a connected external device. When you connect the optional cable , the <Select Input> screen appears. Select the connected cable and start recording.

Recording Time

Recording quality

RAW

2GB approx. 6 hours

HQ

SQ

LQ approx. 43 hours approx. 130 hours approx. 520 hours

Capacity

4GB approx. 12 hours approx. 86 hours approx. 260 hours approx. 1040 hours

Voice Recording Screen

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No. Description

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Recording/Standby/Pause

Recording Folder

Recording Time

Recording dB

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Microphone mode

: Interview mode

: Music mode

: Meeting mode

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Voice recording menu

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: Voice Recording Quality

: VOR

: Noise Reduction

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: AGC

: Prerecord

Name of the recording file

8 Remaining recording time

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Voice Recording

Use the voice recording options

Press in the record standby mode.

Use one or more of the following options.

Option

REC Quality

VOR

(Voice Only

Recording)

Noise reduction

AGC

(Automatic

Gain Control)

Recording sensitivity

Prerecord

Description

You can select the voice recording quality. See

"Recording quality".

- RAW : Make recording in the best quality.

(WAV)

- HQ (High Quality) : Make recording in a high quality. (MP3)

- SQ (Standard Quality) : Make recording in the standard quality. (MP3)

- LQ (Long Quality) : Make recording for a long time in a low quality. (MP3)

Activate recording function where recording is activated when there is a sound, and pauses when there is no sound.

Record more clearly by reducing the levels of surrounding static or noise.

Control the microphone level to optimize sensitivity during the recording.

Use increased sensitivity for recording low sounds.

Insert a 5 second buffer before the actual recording.

Recording quality

Recording quality

RAW

Interview mode

705 kbps

Microphone mode

Music mode

1411 kbps

Meeting mode

705 kbps

HQ

SQ

LQ

96 kbps

32 kbps

8 kbps

192 kbps

64 kbps

32 kbps

96 kbps

32 kbps

8 kbps

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Listen to my recordings and music

Play your recorded files or the music files transferred to your recorder.

Listen to a desired file

In the main menu, select .

Select a folder you want.

Select a recorded or music file to play.

Control playback by using the buttons. See "Recording playback screen".

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To

Skip to the previous or next file

Search backward or forward

Pause or resume playback

Do this

Press /

• If you press 3 seconds after the file plays, the playback will restart

Press and hold /

Press

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Listen to my recordings and music

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Recording playback screen

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Playing status

Current folder

File Name

Elapsed playing time

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: Repeat mode

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: Current SoundAlive

: VOP

: Play Speed

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File number/Total number of files

Playing progress bar :

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is a bookmark that helps you mark a point within a file

Total playing time

Music playback screen

Album

Image

Dividing a file

Song title

While playing a recorded file, press . The fill is divided into two sections at the point where you press the button. You can save the two sections as separate files.

Note

• You can also divide and save sections while recording.

• To divide a file, the total length must be greater than 3 seconds.

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Voice Recording and Playback >

Listen to my recordings and music

Repeat a section of a file

You can select a section of a file to repeat.

Press at the beginning of the section you want to repeat.

• is displayed at the top of the screen and the color of the progress bar changes.

Press at the end of the section you want to repeat.

■ displays at the top of the screen.

Your recorder repeats the marked section.

To cancel repeating, press again.

Note

You can set the end point 3 seconds after the start point.

Use simple repeat

You can skip backward 3 seconds while listening to music or a recording. While listening to a file, press to repeat the previous 3-second section.

Note

If you press within 3 seconds of the beginning of the file, the playback will restart from the beginning.

Set up SoundAlive

Select appropriate sound effects for music.

During playback, press .

Select <SoundAlive>.

Select a sound effect you want.

Note

• If you select <Auto>, your recorder searches the track information (ID3 tag) and automatically selects an appropriate effect.

• To select your own equaliser, select <User>.

Example: Set your own equalizer to <User>

Select <SoundAlive> → <User> and press .

Select a mode, and then adjust the settings.

Note

You can set SoundAlive only when the earphone is connected.

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Listen to my recordings and music

Insert a bookmark

You can insert a bookmark at the point you want and go to the bookmark to play from that point.

Remove a bookmark

Select a file you want.

During playback, press and hold point you want to bookmark.

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A bookmark is inserted to the progress bar.

at the

In the main menu, select

Select a file to delete.

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Press and hold .

Select <Yes> from the pop-up window.

Note

You can insert 10 bookmarks per file and set up to 50 bookmarks.

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Move to the bookmark point

In the main menu, select .

Select a bookmarked file to play.

Listen to your recording or music.

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Listen to my recordings and music

Use the playback options

You can change options for playback.

During playback, press .

Use one or more of the following options.

Option Description

Set the recorder to play only if a sound or voice is detected.

VOP*

(Voice Only

Playback)

Note

You can set <VOP> to on only during playback at normal speed.

Play Mode Change the repeat mode.

Change the playback speed.

Play Speed

Note

• The adjusted play speed may differ from the actual speed, depending on the file.

• <VOP> will be off if you select any playback speed other than <x1.0>.

SoundAlive Select appropriate sound effects.

* Available only when a recording file is played

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Microphone mode settings

Use the microphone mode switch to adjust the settings for the environment.

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You can switch recording modes between interview mode, music mode, and meeting mode by moving the microphone mode switch up or down.

Interview mode Music mode

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Meeting mode

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