Recommendations for Voice Recorders

Chelseadog

I am hoping I can seek some advice from this forum from anyone who has had experience with using Voice Recorders. If I have posted this in the wrong section please advise and I'll happily remove.
I have found myself in the position where it would be extremely helpful for me to be able to record conversations during appointments. I have a degenerative disease where my memory at times doesn't function at best. I have also found myself in that awful predicament where I believe one thing was said and the other has 'no recollection'.
Does anyone have a model they could recommend - something discreet. Someone has suggested Olympus VN-711PC DNS Voice Recorder with DNS Speech Recognition Software.
Any thoughts?
Help would be gratefully received.
Thank you!

suki1964

I do think you have to be open and upfront when recording other people, ie you have to tell them out right

So even a tape recorder would be grand

Chelseadog

I intend to be open and upfront. I am disabled so am in a wheelchair. Carrying a tape recorder around with me would not be at all grand. I have problems with being able to tolerate any weight being placed on my legs and therefore would like something discreet so i could just carry it around in my pocket.

suki1964

Chelseadog wrote: »

I intend to be open and upfront. I am disabled so am in a wheelchair. Carrying a tape recorder around with me would not be at all grand. I have problems with being able to tolerate any weight being placed on my legs and therefore would like something discreet so i could just carry it around in my pocket.

Lidl have one instore ATM

Mr_Toad

I've used several of the digital voice recorders for note taking and making revisions when reading through documents. All of them worked fine and should do exactly what you want.

I also occasionally use a Sony Minidisc as a recorder simply because I have one from the pre iPod days and have loads of spare discs!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-MZ-N710-Silver-MiniDisc-Walkman/dp/B00008AF65/ref=sr_1_4?s=network-media&ie=UTF8&qid=1357818449&sr=1-4

Have you considered a Pulse Livescribe pen? they uses special paper and any written notes are easily transferred to computer but they also record and the beauty is that when you read your notes you can touch the paper with the pen and it play back exactly what was being said when you wrote down whatever it was.

Have a look on YouTube there are plenty of demos to watch.

Stooby2

I had a Sony digital voice recorder similar to this...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-ICD-PX312-Digital-voice-recorder/dp/B004SO9604/ref=sr_1_1?s=officeproduct&ie=UTF8&qid=1357822269&sr=1-1

It coped admirably well indoors and outdoors. It has several built in folders so you could keep recordings seperate. It connected to a PC via USB and showed as an external drive which made transferring files easy. It would store about 120 hours of speech.

If you have a smartphone or similar, check it doesn't have a voice recorder app built in - as my Samsung Galaxy has one and it works very well.

agrinnall

I have two voice records that I use for conducting interviews.

The first is one that I bought on ebay for my Masters dissertation research, it's a Philips Digital Voice Tracer LFH0622.

The second is one that has been bought for me to use in my work as a researcher, I haven't actually had to use it yet but I used a previous version in a project last year. It's a Livescribe Echo smartpen, which allows you to take notes as well and to go directly to the relevant point in the recording by tapping on the notes.

I would say the quality of the Livescribe recording is better, so if you can get one for a reasonable price that would be my recommendation.