Bringing Rosie into the 21st Century, aka digital recorders

There is software that can transcribe for you, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. It's not completely accurate and doesn't work very well with more than one voice:

http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software/voice-recognition-software/

 

We'll talk real low.

 

Why didn't I think to ask Moddy to sell me one of his recorders before he left for his weekend of partying?

Anyways, Overstock.com has an Olympus VN4100-PC for $44.99. It has the PC transfer capability and will record up to 144 hours. I know I wanted it by Monday afternoon, but to save $40 or $50, I'll make do for a couple days. Anyone use this one? Good, bad or otherwise?

 

The Moddy Seal of Approval is good enough for me.

I'll be ordering this one today.

Now I'll have to search for some coupons for Overstock. I do have one for 7 percent off.

 

I have an Olympus, maybe older model than that one. It's wonderful. I would never go back to tapes. The difference is like when we went from Radio Shack TRS-80s to laptops.
You probably know this, but to me, the best thing about a digital machine is, like right now I'm doing a long feature for which I talked to half a dozen people. Each of those people is a separate "take" on the recorder. There's no running a tape back and forth to try to find them, I know, say, Joe Schmoe is No. 7 under the A folder. And you can't record over him. You can delete him, but only on purpose. Plus, the mike is way better than any I ever had with a tape machine.