Maybe just to be provocative (more devil than advocate?) I would like to ask a question of you Alyson. Are you mixing up the means with the medium? You say that your customers have "visual impairments or learning difficulties" and from that I take it (feel free to correct me if I am wrong) that they would therefore benefit from an audio delivery mechanism rather than written. This suggests to me that the solution is audio not that it is per se tape. Could the same service not be provided with more up to date equipment such as usb stick (or going slightly older CD) which are much more easily sourced (and therefore cheaper?). My guess is that it may only be a very small number that do not have equipment that can cope with those technologies - in which case shouldn’t you possibly go for more up to date equipment that is at least replicable into the near future? Maybe going digital is actually the sensible thing to do?
Hope this is received in the way it is intended to be - to help.
Regards
Richard
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Subject: Information on tape
We still have a number of customers who have visual impairments or learning difficulties, and who prefer information on tape. Our old, trusty tape recorder finally wheezed it's last a couple of years ago, so we have been out-sourcing tape recording to a local company. Unfortunately, this company are not taking on any more transcribing work at the moment.
I have been hunting on the internet for a machine which will record voice onto standard sized cassettes. It seems that this technology is a bit past it now, though, as all the machines seem to be digital.
Does anyone know of a manufacturer / supplier of direct to tape recording equipment? It will have to be fairly inexpensive (local authority cut-backs!).
Thanks
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