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Livescribe Smart Pen

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Capture your important classes with Livescribe smartpens. Record everything you hear, say, and write, while adding your audio recordings to your notes. The app saves your notes and recordings to your computer for fast, easy access to what’s important. Search for words within your notes and find what you need fast. Easily send and share your notes and audio via email or save on your drive.

We have three different models!

Livescribe Echo 2 Smart Pen

 

Capture your important classes with an Echo 2 smartpen. Record everything you hear, say, and write while adding your audio recordings to your notes. Quickly replay audio from your Echo 2 smartpen or mobile device with a simple tap on your handwritten notes. It's never been easier to take notes and stay organized. Here is a detailed list of features:

Write notes & Record

  • Take notes and record audio using echo 2 pen & livescribe smart paper
  • Capture your meetings with crisp & clear sound

Pair your Phone, Tablet or laptop

  • Upload all your handwritten notes to your device
  • Convert hand written notes to text
  • Has support for android, iOS, Windows and MAC

Go through your notes easily

  • Tap your notes on paper to playback recorded audio from that moment
  • The built-in speaker produces rich, full sound to playback recorded audio
  • Has bluetooth facility to connect your earbuds
  • Search for words within your notes and find what you need fast

Manage your notes easily

  • Organize your notes using the desktop or mobile app
  • Make copies of notes
  • Add or copy pages from one note book to another notebook

Share your notes live on video calls

  • A laptop or device connected to can display your handwritten notes live
  • Perfect for sharing screens for remote learning or collaboration with the team.

Send or save your digital notes

  • Send your notes to an email, evernote, OneNote, or any other note-taking tool you use
  • Upload your notes to google drive, OneDrive, or other cloud services
  • Send or share PDF

Students who need an Echo 2 device loan will receive:

  • Smart Pen (4GB Memory)
  • One Livescribe Notebook
  • USB C cable for charging and data transfer
  • Extra ink cartridge
  • One Smart Pen cap

Livescribe Echo

Capture your important classes with an Echo smartpen. Record everything you hear, say, and write while adding your audio recordings to your notes. Quickly replay audio from your Echo smartpen with a simple tap on your handwritten notes. The free Echo Desktop application saves your notes and recordings to your computer for fast, easy access to what’s important. Search for words within your notes and find what you need fast. Easily send and share your notes and audio via email or a variety of other sites and services.

Here is a list of features:

  • Save notes and pen casts directly to your computer.
  • Record everything you hear, say, and write, while linking your audio recordings to your notes.
  • Replay audio directly from paper by tapping on your notes.
  • Livescribe Echo Desktop software allows you to save, organize and play back interactive notes from your Mac or Windows computer.
  • Share notes and pencasts as images.

Students who need a Livescribe Echo device loan receive:

  • Echo Smart Pen with 2GB of memory
  • One Livescribe Notebook
  • Micro USB cable for charging and data transfer
  • Two ink cartridges (including one pre-installed in the Echo Smart Pen)
  • One Smart Pen cap
Comparison of different livescribe pens
Symphony Echo Echo 2
Audio Recording Done from the Livescribe+ App. Pen needs to be paired with the device. Built-in recorder Built-in recorder
Voice Playback Done from the Livescribe+ App. Built-in speaker or Livescribe echo desktop app after the device is connected Built-in or from Livescribe+ app.
Connectivity USB & Bluetooth USB USB & Bluetooth
Real-time notes streaming Yes No Yes
Supported platforms for App Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android Windows and MacOS Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android
Switching it on/off Pen cap used for on/off On/off button On/off button
Battery Capacity up to 10 hrs of writing & 45+ days of standby up to 8 hrs of writing & 45+ days of standby up to 8.5 hrs of writing & 45+ days of standby

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • When digitizing your notes and audio you'll need storage space; with 2GB of memory, your smartpen has it. The 2GB Smart Pen can hold over 200 hours of audio or over thousands of pages of notes.

  • These Smart Pens only work with Livescribe dot paper. Smart Pens record everything you write and hear so you’ll never miss a word. Replay your meetings or lectures simply by tapping on your notes.

  • You can save your notes, upload it to you cloud services like google drive, organize notes based on subject, create multiple copies of a page and add it to other notebooks, bookmark pages, and even search for a specific word or sentence across all notebooks and pages. And the best part is, you can covert your handwritten notes to text as well (feature not available with older version of Echo smart-pen).

  • Contact us at assistivetech@csueastbay.edu

    or visit https://livescribe.helpscoutdocs.com/ for more information.