No point us having to go to the trouble of providing duplicate recordings then. If I'd have known I'd have used my digital dictaphone and downloaded it to my PC and used the software supplied to do the transcription instead of spending hours listening to the tape and trying to do it manually.
If you can get a cassette deck from somewhere, and a suitable lead, you can plug it into a computer, and "play" the tape into the sound card from where you can record it (use something like Audacity).Nurse didn't even label the tape as to what it was about. So presumably it was filed straight in the bin.
When they claim they have no record of the recording the best part is the last words on the tape are the nurse saying "you can stop recording now."
There is no way on earth I'm letting the original recording out of my possession and I have no way of duplicating the tape. Is there a gizmo that I can download the tape to PC and burn a CD from there? Is there any cheapo software that will allow me to filter the motor noise out to make the recording more legible(?) ?
Next time, perhaps do a covert recording yourself, plus get them to do the duplicate job. Then, when they "lose" their copy, you can produce (at tribunal) your backup copy as well as your copy of their tape. None of which stops them from being complete and utter cunts. It'd be good to see a well-financed class action against DWP for what, individually, might look like isolated errors, but collectively looks suspiciously like a very well-coordinated strategy.No point us having to go to the trouble of providing duplicate recordings then. If I'd have known I'd have used my digital dictaphone and downloaded it to my PC and used the software supplied to do the transcription instead of spending hours listening to the tape and trying to do it manually.
I've already got the dictaphones that I used to record the assessment I could use one of those to connect to the computer. Not sure I could simply connect the dictaphones together as the ear / mic levels may be wrong and I'd like to clean the recording up if possible. 
Is this possible? where do you start? - would it cost thousands? is no civil liberies/ activist/ charity/ union /other organisation doing this?
Oh I do that with things too. Usually the file or report turns up eventually.Think I need to add hallucinations to my list of problems. When I read through the info from the DWP I could swear blind I'd seen something to say the assessment finished at 16:23 which can't possibly be right as I only used 1 side of a C90 cassette tape to record it and was no where near the end of the tape when I finished so the assessment lasted well under the 45 minutes of 1 side of the tape. Having looked through all the pages again 4 times yesterday I can find no mention of the assessments end time although I've not checked to see if I've lost a page some how.
I checked again last night and all the pages are accounted for.
This bit was highlighted along with quite a few other bits of the transcript and the DWP photocopy has coped well with all the other bits making them legible except this part which is totally blacked out. Might have to reprint that page then photocopy it to see what happens.
It's one thing getting it forensically analysed/checked, quite another getting it done in a way which makes it admissible as evidence in court...Is there anyway I can get the dictaphone forensically checked for fingerprints as the Tosser turned off one of the recorders off at the end so her fingerprints will be on it?
Can I get the tape forensically analysed to compare her voice on the recording to her actual voice?
It sounds like you're pretty well set up to do some righteous arse-kicking here, even with what you do have. Not, of course, that you should ever have had to, but...I checked again last night and all the pages are accounted for.
Even though the DWP want to rule the transcript of the assessment inadmissible as ATOS have no recollection of a request to record the assessment, the part of the transcript where I start to black out and the HP apologises appears to have been redacted.
I should have recorded on my digital dictaphone a phone conversation with ATOS about recording the assessment where they explain that I need to provide the recording equipment. I also have receipts from a few days later for 2 identical dictaphones and a pack of 3 cassettes. Lets see them wriggle out of that one.
Lessons learned from having to deal with this shit over several years. Record everything, save all receipts, scan and photocopy everything. Don't give the bastards an inch.
Good for you. Not everyone learns those lessons, so don't be taking that entirely for granted!Lessons learned from having to deal with this shit over several years. Record everything, save all receipts, scan and photocopy everything. Don't give the bastards an inch.
she said as i had come all that way and needed to rush through the interview hardly asked any questions like last time it was all a bit odd ,I did stick to my plan 
i replied by saying the room was to small ( in fact it was massive ) I did everything I could in the book, from what i have learnt from here and all the help greebo and others on urban have given me, but was difficult as it was nothing like my last interview as I have mentioned .
I'm a bit fucking appalled that they locked you into a roomwell i had my ESA interview after trying to get a home visit for 10 months finally ,
i was told i had to go from my home in w sussex to Balham in a taxi they paid for
this happend to be the last working day of the year for them my interview was the last
one for the lady interviewing i was in there for a total of 25 minutes, the last one was
1 hour 10 mins
as i had learnt from last time, well i think i had... at one point i made a move for the door and tried to open it as i was feeling a bit panicky, but the door was locked and the lady asked me what
on earth i was doing
So in a nutshell its nice to write it down on here I really do not know what on earth will happen but I gave it my best.
thanks mate for your concern but i was locked in with the nurse /health test personI'm a bit fucking appalled that they locked you into a room
Managed to copy the tape to PC and clean it up with audacity but what type of format do I need to save it as so it can be played on a normal CD player?
You need to write it out as a 44100 Hz 16-bit stereo .WAV file which will then be able to be used by a suitable program to burn a CD from.
Cheers. It's saved as a .WAV file just wasn't sure if that would play on a CD player otherwise I'm going to have to buy a laptop and take that to the tribunal as well.
You may find that, whatever format you've saved it as, your burning software will convert it. But don't count on that - you'll want to play the burned CD in a couple of drives just to be on the safe side.Cheers. It's saved as a .WAV file just wasn't sure if that would play on a CD player otherwise I'm going to have to buy a laptop and take that to the tribunal as well.
oh bollocks. i haven't kept a copy of the form i sent back to them, which was this:
Not only will it not be considered, it will be used to "prove" that you cannot be anxious or depressed, because nobody anxious or depressed ever helped their mum. Fact.
