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.


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