Recording interviews

[John Bailey]

I've got a Philips digital recorder and it sounds basically the same as
Ian's - you can get super cheap ones that don't allow you to transfer to
your computer (maybe around $30 US?). The next step up is more like $80-100
and is all you'd really need I think.

If voice recognition software ever reached that level I'd be in heaven.
Right now you end up with Dada-esque prose that bears no relation to what
you've said.

If you have an iPad or equivalent (I don't) apparently there's a way nifty
app that records and allows you to enter keywords during conversations, and
when playing back you can skip straight to that point by clicking the word.
I've heard it's a must-have.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a dandy little Olympus digital voice recorder. Battery life is
> lots of hours, and storage is almost scary. I can download directly to
> my computer and create discs of the interviews. When voice recognition
> attains the level of sophistication it needs to transcribe any voice,
> it may be possible to transcribe to print pretty quickly. It is also
> very compact.
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Any recommendations for what to use to record an interview these days?
> >  A friend says he's given interviews into the interviewer's smart
> > phone, even, but ...
> >
> > ... for reliability, storage capacity, recording retrieval, battery
> > power, ease of transcription, et al. ...
> >
>
>
>
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