Voice Recorders & Transcribers > Sony Voice Recorders & Transcribers > Microcassette dictaphone

Advantages: Smal easy to use
Disadvantages: A little bulky

I've had my recorder for several years now and am very satisfied with the ease of use and functionality of the unit. I have used it to make personal and business memos while driving down the road with the use of the hands free voice activation feature (just be sure to have the music turned of in the background). Power is supplied with two AA batteries. It has an ear phone jack for private play back. The microphone is very sensitive and even though ...
...say thatit can pick up sounds from across a good sized room with relative ease. There are five buttons for pause, cue-review, record,play and stop. Also there is also a volume control, a jack for a DC 3v power cable and a slide selector for two tape speeds. The micro cassettes are economical and you can carry several spares. ... Read review

Advantages: Hybrid storage,great recording time,folder options
Disadvantages: N/A

When you record the conversation of your kith n keen,what do u use?Mobile,tape recorder???Forget those days.Use some brand new gadget.Sony's ICD MX20 32 MB is a complete package for you.It's hybrid storage structure will offer you to store all the conversations in Memory Stick Duo or PRO Duo media cards along with its built in 32 MB flash memory.With more than 300 personalized folder options,you can store all your important files over here.You can ...
...the help of it as it is compatible with dragon NaturallySpeaking.It's new STLP Recording Mode helps you to record 2 channel recording with higher recording time upto 2 Hours 45 Minutes. along with it's LP mode which offers upto 11 Hours 35 Minutes Recording Time.Thanks to digital buffer technology,this USB 2.0 Compatible device's Digital Voice Up and VOR (Voice Operated Recording) technology will help you recording from silent pause without missing ... Read review

Advantages: handy notetaking; create your own folders, microphone and speaker quality great
Disadvantages: none

...me when I received my Olympus WS-110. I do a lot of thinking. And I DID a lot of scribbling on paper. All over the house. Now, I carry this baby with me all the time and my information is ready to retrieve anytime! The ease of use of a product is extremely important so I was happy that there was no steep learning curve in getting used to the button controls. You create folders which you can add information to which makes it quite nice. I have a ... Read review

Advantages: Extremely clear recording, reliable memory cards, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not cheap, no rechargable battery or docking station

...age when we purchased a Philips Digital Pocket Memo. The Philips Digital Pocket Memo (or DPM) is a small, hand-held machine that records my boss' eloquence on to files on memory cards. You then download files onto your computer to transcribe them. It's that simple. Still, that might not be enough for most of you so let me go into a touch more detail. As you can see from the picture above, this has a LCD screen which shows you things like how much ...
...to figure out. The Philips DPM uses SD flash memory cards, and it comes with a Philips 512mb card, but you can up in cards up to 1 GB (but no bigger). We don't have a docking station for this, and run it on two AAA batteries, and find that we only change batteries every two weeks or so. We figured that's over 30 hours of recording between battery changes, which is very good. Also, the sound quality stays consistently clear until the batteries go ... Read review

Advantages: small, easy to use,records for a while
Disadvantages: none

A lady in my anatomy class had this type of recorder taping the teachers lecture for us to review for a test. And it played so good that I could not believe that it was so clear. It tape for a while with out the whole entire tape getting used up. It was really easy to use and small enough to put in your pocket. It was a reasonable price as well. She was telling me that she bought it last year and never have had any problems out of it. The sound quality ... Read review