The microphone is built into the hörbert model.

This allows you to record your own voice and play it back from hörbert’s colorful buttons.

When ordering a hörbert, we install it directly from the factory. It’s very small and sits on an equally small microphone board inside hörbert at the frontal underside. From the outside, only a small opening in the wood next to the hörbert logo is visible for this purpose.

To record speech with the microphone, two settings must first be made:

**1.** Choose on which of the colorful hörbert buttons voice recordings can be saved.
You may not want to allow voice recordings on every button. For example, if you have filled one of the buttons with connected audio plays and stories. The chapters in these stories should not be interrupted.
Therefore, the new hörbert software offers the possibility for you to set on your home computer in the hörbert software which playlists you want to allow voice recordings for. Start the hörbert software, select the new hörbert model, and scan the card. Open the button on which you want to allow the recordings.
Select “Allow voice recordings here” at the bottom of the window and close the button content window again with the green checkmark at the top right.
You can also set where recordings from Bluetooth streams or Internet radio should end up in the same way.

**2. Activate the microphone via the SET mode on your hörbert**

Here’s how:
1) Turn on hörbert. Press the small SET button inside hörbert. Now the front colorful buttons of hörbert are in SET mode.
2) Then activate the microphone function by pressing the corresponding dark green button at the front. The supplied SET template makes it easy for you to find the right button. Press once: on (single beep), press again: off (double beep).
3) Press the SET button again inside to save the setting. hörbert has now saved the setting and the microphone is active.

Now you can screw hörbert back together and switch it on.

To start a recording.
When you are in the allowed playlist, you can start a recording by pressing and holding the black button at the bottom left, and then simultaneously pressing the dark gray button at the bottom right. You can release the two buttons while speaking.

To stop a recording.
To stop the recording, press the black button again.

To discard a recording.
To discard the recording, stop the recording by pressing the power button and turning off hörbert.

Playing back a microphone recording.
A microphone recording is played back immediately after recording. It lands directly behind the title that was playing when the recording was started.

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