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Originally Posted by skaven
My dad got a voice recorder from Radio Shack that is supposed to be able to hook directly to a computer. Quality is quite good -- dunno what format it is though. I think the "basic" model (without a USB interface) was $60, and the "fancy" one was $90 or so.
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I bought an Olympus with USB (VN-480) for ~$90, probably the same unit. Quality is okay. It looks cool, like a superslim phone. Good voice activated recording, folders, scheduled recording, 64MB which provides maybe 4hrs at usable quality. Whatever format it uses internally, audio lands on the computer as WAVs. Transfer is incredibly slow. About 1MB/minute. At HQ recording this makes it about 10:1 transfer:realtime. Better than analog transfers but not what I was expecting.
My preference was for the newer Panasonic models but (famous last words) nobody local had them in stock and I couldn't wait.