Would you pay $1,499 for a dictaphone? What if it’s a actually fancy dictaphone with a spinning “tape” reel? The parents over at Swedish electronics firm Teenage Engineering actually consider there’s a market by asserting the TP-7 discipline recorder — a unusual, compact recording machine designed to seize audio “with zero friction within the highest potential high quality.”
The TP-7 contains a built-in mic / speaker, 128GB of inside storage, and three two-way 3.5mm jacks that can be utilized for each audio enter and output. There’s additionally a USB-C port, which is used for knowledge switch and charging the machine. Teenage Engineering claims a full cost ought to final round seven hours. It’s the most recent addition to Teenage Engineering’s discipline system of moveable audio units, becoming a member of merchandise just like the OP-1 synthesizer, CM-15 studio microphone, and TX-6 audio mixer.
All of these devices mix points of retro-tech and futurism, and the TP-7 is not any exception. It’s roughly the dimensions of a deck of playing cards, that includes some nostalgic-looking buttons for audio recording and playback that wouldn’t look amiss on an outdated cassette participant. A “motorized tape reel” within the heart sticks with that theming, serving as extra controls for scrubbing, menu navigation, and visible suggestions — spinning when the machine is recording or enjoying again audio. There’s additionally a side-mounted rocker that can be utilized to rapidly rewind or fast-forward by means of your recordings.
The TP-7 has an iOS app that may routinely transcribe your audio as you’re recording. The machine must be related to an iPhone through Bluetooth or the USB-C port, and the app may even be used as a distant for the TP-7 machine. There isn’t any equal app for Android customers. Teenage Engineering didn’t point out which languages can be obtainable at launch however did promise that extra languages, text-to-audio modifying, and different options can be added to the app “over time.”
The whole lot concerning the design and worth is outrageous. I would like one.
Teenage Engineering is pitching this as a tool for “journalists, legal professionals, and medical professionals,” however $1,499 is so much to ask for one thing principally using on aesthetic attraction. At that worth, it could have been good to see some extra options included throughout the machine itself, like native transcription and not using a tethered iPhone or built-in audio results.
The TP-7 is predicted to go on sale someday this summer season.