A friend asked for a recommendation on a voice recorder. ConsumerSearch notes the Olympus WS-311M as the Best Digital Voice Recorder overall. I considered the DS-30 and DS-40, which have more memory and other niceties like a builtin speaker, but they were substantially more expensive. All the Olympus voice recorders present themselves as simple USB storage to the computer, and the recordings are just WMA files (but not, unfortunately, MP3, which prevents it from receiving a star). The WS-311M has a builtin microphone, and is also a portable music player (also WMV only, however), and can playback for 20 hours on a single AAA battery. Storage space is 512MB, or almost 9 hours of recording at the highest quality.

Saul :: Aug.14.2008 :: Voice Recorder :: 1 Comment »

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