Digital Voice Recorder Information

About.com's guide to Canadian small business has a great primer on what to look for before selecting a digital voice recorder. (Note: ConsumerSearch is owned by About.com, but the two don't share an editorial affiliation.)

A similar guide at Life123.com is also helpful.

We found a good podcast about digital recording in general by O'Reilly Digital Media reviewers David Battono and Mark Nelson.

If you want to use your iPod as a voice recorder, you'll need to buy an add-on because iPods do not come equipped with a voice recorder. O'Reilly Digital Media reviews various iPod mics in a "shootout."

PC Today discusses the attributes not only of dedicated digital voice recorders, but also of MP3 players and cell phones that offer audio recording.

Sports writers not only have to interview people, they have to jostle each other in front of some athlete's locker in order to shove a microphone in the vicinity of the interview subject. On two message board threads, sports writers (most of them posting under pseudonyms) discuss voice recorders. Try here and here.

Similarly, law-enforcement officers also need audio recorders, and some are discussed on this message board thread for police officers.

Recorders.com also offers a message board in which anyone can comment or ask questions of the resident experts.

There's a discussion board thread on digital voice recorders at Geek.com, an "online technology resource" for computer lovers.

Manufacturers' websites offer detailed information and specifications about their products:

Olympus

M-Audio

Samson Tech (Zoom)

Sony

Panasonic

Roland (Edirol)

Philips