Best Sony Voice Recorders and Transcribers for Battery Life

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.

i have had been using the sony mzm200 professional portable hi md recorder for the past year for digital recording of meetings and lectures.

i am glad that sony added the automatic power off when stopped, i have another digital recorder that does't have a power button, and this is a battery saver.

the icdux70 records directly to the internal memory which can be easily read and written to by any computer that has usb just like a flash card (sony only advertises compatibility with windows and

the files are a lot easier to work with than sony hd minidiscs (what i used to use for this).

so far i am happy with it.sony icd-b500 digital voice recorder with 256 mb built-in flash memory

as a journalist who uses the sony icd-b500, i can tell you i'm super happy with it.

i got 2 of the sony icd digital voice recorders.

i downloaded a pdf listing the manufacturer's specifications of the unit from sony's website.

i bought my sony model icd-b600 voice recorder today.

today i received my sony icd-b600 .

pros: works great, helps out a ton cons: none the bottom line: the sony icdb600 hand held digital voice recorder has helped me in many ways.

actually, i have bought this one unintentionally, as was looking for an olympus model, and, maybe, i was mislead by the other sony icdp620 digital voice recorder pc compatible via usb which supports