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( 4 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: 12-23-2007
I've owned this recorder for several months. It does an excellent job on voice recordings, either for notes or for transcribing to written words. In contrast to the only other reviewer, the included software installed with no effort on my Windows XP Pro laptop. Pros: Voice quality is truly excellent at "SP" mode or above. Many features including low and high recording sensitivity and voice activated recording mode. Includes two built-in microphones for stereo recording. Efficient recording modes make the best use of the 256M included memory. Supports and includes NiMH rechargeable batteries. Included Dragon Naturally Speaking software does an amazing job of converting dictation to speech. Cons: Display is hard to read in some circumstances. Dragon software must be "trained" on a speaker's voice to get high accuracy. This prevents the Dragon software from transcribing conferences with more than one speaker -- it only does dictation from one speaker. File format is not mp3 or wma and the included Sony software must be used to convert it to other formats. (I doubt Mac owners will be able to use this product.)













