I really looked for the "correct" groups to post this in, but I didn't
find what looked like a suitable group which includes the word "office."
Anyhow, I hope you friendly souls will not mind chiming in here, as I know
that there is a wealth of knowledge around these groups.

I am a small-businessman, and I do a lot of dictation. I now use a Sony
micro-cassette hand held dictating machine, and it serves me well, "most"
of the time.

I have now seen that there are times (mostly when I am out of town) that
I would like to dicate, and then be able to email the dictated audio file to
my office for typing. Thus, I have a keen interest in digital recorders.

Can any of you offer any recommendations as to what features I should look
for, and/or what brands, or specific model numbers that you have used ? I
don't need huge capacity or huge features, but I do need a small unit that
is usb ready so that I can plug the machine into my pc, load the audio
files, and then email them.

I assume these units use some sort of compression so that the final audio
files are not too large, and can be emailed.

Any thoughts/comments/ experience, and recommendations would be greatly
appreciated !!!

--james--

I use my cell phone. Just email the .wav files to myself or any other
address.

Kal

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:17:50 -0400, "James" <jnipperxxx@nospamfdn.com>
wrote:

>
>
>I really looked for the "correct" groups to post this in, but I didn't
>find what looked like a suitable group which includes the word "office."
>Anyhow, I hope you friendly souls will not mind chiming in here, as I know
>that there is a wealth of knowledge around these groups.
>
>I am a small-businessman, and I do a lot of dictation. I now use a Sony
>micro-cassette hand held dictating machine, and it serves me well, "most"
>of the time.
>
>I have now seen that there are times (mostly when I am out of town) that
>I would like to dicate, and then be able to email the dictated audio file to
>my office for typing. Thus, I have a keen interest in digital recorders.
>
>Can any of you offer any recommendations as to what features I should look
>for, and/or what brands, or specific model numbers that you have used ? I
>don't need huge capacity or huge features, but I do need a small unit that
>is usb ready so that I can plug the machine into my pc, load the audio
>files, and then email them.
>
>I assume these units use some sort of compression so that the final audio
>files are not too large, and can be emailed.
>
>Any thoughts/comments/ experience, and recommendations would be greatly
>appreciated !!!
>
>--james--
>

My favorite recorder for such things is the Olympus DS-3300. One can
easily overwrite mistakes or insert stuff into a message, when one
forgot something while recording it. It records in the DSS format, 10
minutes of speech require approximately one megabyte. If you want
something cheaper and don't need certain features, partial erase for
instance, the DS-2300 is very similar and very good too.

<*** Michael Lang ***>

<jnipperxxx@nospamfdn.com> wrote:

>
>
>I really looked for the "correct" groups to post this in, but I didn't
>find what looked like a suitable group which includes the word "office."
>Anyhow, I hope you friendly souls will not mind chiming in here, as I know
>that there is a wealth of knowledge around these groups.
>
>I am a small-businessman, and I do a lot of dictation. I now use a Sony
>micro-cassette hand held dictating machine, and it serves me well, "most"
>of the time.
>
>I have now seen that there are times (mostly when I am out of town) that
>I would like to dicate, and then be able to email the dictated audio file to
>my office for typing. Thus, I have a keen interest in digital recorders.
>
>Can any of you offer any recommendations as to what features I should look
>for, and/or what brands, or specific model numbers that you have used ? I
>don't need huge capacity or huge features, but I do need a small unit that
>is usb ready so that I can plug the machine into my pc, load the audio
>files, and then email them.
>
>I assume these units use some sort of compression so that the final audio
>files are not too large, and can be emailed.
>
>Any thoughts/comments/ experience, and recommendations would be greatly
>appreciated !!!
>
>--james--
>
>

Thank you very much Micheal ~~

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:17:50 -0400, James wrote:

> I am a small-businessman, and I do a lot of dictation. I now use a Sony
> micro-cassette hand held dictating machine, and it serves me well, "most"
> of the time.
>
> I have now seen that there are times (mostly when I am out of town) that
> I would like to dicate, and then be able to email the dictated audio file to
> my office for typing. Thus, I have a keen interest in digital recorders.
>
> Can any of you offer any recommendations as to what features I should look
> for, and/or what brands, or specific model numbers that you have used ? I
> don't need huge capacity or huge features, but I do need a small unit that
> is usb ready so that I can plug the machine into my pc, load the audio
> files, and then email them.
>
> I assume these units use some sort of compression so that the final audio
> files are not too large, and can be emailed.
>
> Any thoughts/comments/ experience, and recommendations would be greatly
> appreciated !!!

Sony's MD recorders are probably the best small recorders, or at
least were. The only new recording model left is fairly expensive,
and much larger than most recording mp3 devices. I have several mp3
units, but the iAudio G3 is the only one that has these features:
Using the internal microphone (it can't use an external mic.) you
can set the mic. volume to levels 1 through 10. A low volume would
be good for recording in noisy environments. You can set the output
files can be any of these formats:

MP3: 128, 112, or 96 kbps.
WAV: 32, 16, 11 or 8 khz.

It also has a "Voice Active" feature that pauses recording if it
doesn't detect any speech. The sensitivity threshold can be set to
values between 0 and 10. This can save time on playback since there
wouldn't be any long periods of silence to deal with. FYI, the
files that the G3 produces are about 500 kb/min for 11khz wav files
and about 700 kb / minute for 96kbps mp3 files. Small enough to be
emailed unless your recording go beyond 10 minutes per recording.

I've found the G3's firmware to be a little flakey when it comes
to these recorded voice files. Sometimes they don't show up
immediately so I have to power off the unit. After powering it back
on, the recordings are where they're supposed to be, and can either
be played back, or after connecting to a USB port, copied to the
computer using either iAudio's JetShell software or a file browser
such as MS Explorer.

--
[ reposted, as original was only addressed to a.m.m.h ]

you should check out microsfot onenote.
its an awesome product, greatfor getting all your notes and thoughts
organized, and can even record off a microphone, and you can add text
with it on the screen. cant say enough great things about it.
download a free trial from microsoft and try it out.
Jay

James wrote:
> I really looked for the "correct" groups to post this in, but I didn't
> find what looked like a suitable group which includes the word "office."
> Anyhow, I hope you friendly souls will not mind chiming in here, as I know
> that there is a wealth of knowledge around these groups.
>
> I am a small-businessman, and I do a lot of dictation. I now use a Sony
> micro-cassette hand held dictating machine, and it serves me well, "most"
> of the time.
>
> I have now seen that there are times (mostly when I am out of town) that
> I would like to dicate, and then be able to email the dictated audio file to
> my office for typing. Thus, I have a keen interest in digital recorders.
>
> Can any of you offer any recommendations as to what features I should look
> for, and/or what brands, or specific model numbers that you have used ? I
> don't need huge capacity or huge features, but I do need a small unit that
> is usb ready so that I can plug the machine into my pc, load the audio
> files, and then email them.
>
> I assume these units use some sort of compression so that the final audio
> files are not too large, and can be emailed.
>
> Any thoughts/comments/ experience, and recommendations would be greatly
> appreciated !!!
>
> --james--
>
>

"James" <jnipperxxx@nospamfdn.com> wrote in message
news:Vd2dnXh7o_5t7dzYnZ2dnUVZ_omdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> Thank you very much Micheal ~~
>


Morgan do some Olympus recorders with USB very cheap:
http://tinyurl.com/qk822

Some Palm and Pocket PCs do this too, if you wanted one of these too.

Z