Oh no, let all of us know! Geoff
----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Matzura To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:21 AM Subject: O/T Hand-Held Digital Recorders--what's your fave? I do love bleeding-edge technology for certain things, but personal, sometimes referred to as ephemeral data is not one of them. For notes I still use a pocket slate and stylus, but for anything that's longer than will fit on a business card, I have been known to rely on tech, most notably some kind of digital voice recorder. I gave up on tapes years ago, as I believe most folks have by now. About eight years ago, maybe just a little less, I bought a Panasonic recorder that turned out to be quite useful and reasonably acessible. Somebody recorded the manual, and it made the rounds of the blindness community,and folks seemed to like it well enough. I don't remember the model number, but if you had one, I'm sure you know which one I'm talking about. Then there was the VoiceMate craze. My wife and I each bought one, but neither of us could ever get them to work correctly, even when trying them in totally sound-proofed environments, like inside our coat closet at home with all the winter coats acting as sound-proofing! So we have two VoiceMates rotting away on the shelf here. Then five years ago a non-blind friend of mine bought an Olympus digital voice recorder (I'll call them DVR's from here on out) and it turned out to be very accessible but very unavailable. So I looked around and settled on what I thought was going to be a good unit from Sony. It came with Dragon Dictate, all sorts of notes management software that I could never get to work right, etc., etc. I use it occasionally, when I can remember how it works, which isn't very often. Then I heard about some other blind-user-friendly DVR that recorded in high quality, stereo even, with USB-based file transfer to and from a PC, useful for field recordings, etc. Of course, now that I want one, no one I know knows what happened to the company that made them, so I'm thinkin', another one bites the dust. My job situation is changing, and I'm finding I need to record more things usually faster than I can whip out a pocket slate and stylus from a suit coat pocket or laptop carry bag, so I'm once again in the market for yet another DVR. I don't want to get into a big discussion of whose widget is better than whose, but if folks who use these things on a regular basis could just drop me a private message telling me what you like and why, I'd appreciate hearing from you. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
