Best Sony Voice Recorders and Transcribers for Dictation

after having a sony micro cassette recorder for years, i realized i rarely used the thing because the tape hiss was so bad.

i always trust the sony sound quality and this is no exception.

i have run mine on an xp-pro machine, and checked to see that there was a sony update for vista 64-bit compatibility, which downloaded and installed just fine.

sony has the market cornered on "good, but.."

i did have to go to sony help to get the recorder software (not the dictation software) to work on vista -- relatively painless.

(the software told me that the s-to-n level was too low the first time.) in fact, i was quite impressed with how the sony digital voice editor software and the dragon software integrated.

the included sony software that allows you to convert the recordings into a mp3 file onto your computer's hard drive was equally simple to use.

therefore if you want .mp3 you are forced to install sony's software and use their 'converter' to output to mp3.