Best Voice Recorders and Transcribers for Mac

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Sony ICD-UX80 2048 MB

$114.00 Est. at Amazon

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it's pc and mac compatible, which is a major bonus.
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quality mp3 recorder and easy to use on pcs and macs (i own a mac and works just fine).
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it does everything it's supposed to do, plus it works well with the mac.
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a flash card (sony only advertises compatibility with windows and mac, but my brief test with ubuntu linux showed that i was able to transfer (legally purchased) mp3 files to it and listen to them.
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very simple to drag mp3 files into it from i tunes, you just have to convert your assumed "apple lossless" to mp3 first.

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Positives: Compact, Easy To Use, Long Battery Life, Recording Media: Digital

2 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for MAC

Olympus WS-110

$126.00 Est. at Amazon

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i have a mac at work and it downloads the voice recordings as wave files.
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this olympus voice recorder also works with my mac.
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i recently bought a macbookpro and needed a digital voice recorder that was compatible with a mac and pc.
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this thing sounds really good and is actually compatible with my mac (though since the files are in wma format, you'll need a free app like vlc to play them in os x).
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all i do is record the lectures and put them onto my mac later in the day.

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Positives: Compact, Easy To Use, Excellent Sound Quality, Recording Media: Digital

3 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for MAC

Olympus WS-110

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i have a mac at work and it downloads the voice recordings as wave files.
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this olympus voice recorder also works with my mac.
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i recently bought a macbookpro and needed a digital voice recorder that was compatible with a mac and pc.
from www.amazon.com
this thing sounds really good and is actually compatible with my mac (though since the files are in wma format, you'll need a free app like vlc to play them in os x).
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all i do is record the lectures and put them onto my mac later in the day.

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Positives: Compact, Easy To Use, Large Capacity

4 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for MAC

Olympus RECORDER

$61.00 Est. at Amazon

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mp3s into and out of it is perfectly simple--slide off the battery compartment revealing a full-size usb, plug it into the computer, and it appears on the desktop as a removable disk (in mac os x).
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i ordered the olympus ws-321 for two reasons: one as a mac owner i wanted a voice recorder that would easily interface with my mac.
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transferring files to my mac was incredibly easy with the built in usb connection.
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connected to a mac laptop, it appeared as a thumb drive and i was able to copy the sound files to my computer.
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and transferring talks and mp3s into and out of it is perfectly simple--slide off the battery compartment revealing a full-size usb, plug it into the computer, and it appears on the desktop as a

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Sound Quality, Large Capacity, Recording Media: Digital

5 RECOMMENDED by 6 people for MAC

Olympus RECORDER

$134.00 Est. at Amazon

from bgoldenb from Hewlett, NY, clickfrom.buy.com
it was so easy to make the recordings and then transfer them directly to my mac.
from Marie from West Lafayette, IN, www.circuitcity.com
for mac users, you don't need any extra software, you can download a free program online that'll let you listen to them.
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i really liked that this model is basically a voice-recorder usb key, hence it is compatible with mac!
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the case snaps off and you plug it into your pc/mac.
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macos x and windows compatible.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Nice Sound Quality, Compact, Recording Media: Digital

Olympus WS-210S 512 MB

$100.00 Est. at Amazon

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works well with a mac, just plug it into a free usb port and it shows up as a device on your finder.
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recorded material rather than start a new file or add to an existing one, and it recorded in a proprietary format that wouldn't play on a mac until i had converted it using a windows program.
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very easy to transfer files to a macbook.
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the thumb control for play and record was easy to get backwards; it tended to want to overwrite previously recorded material rather than start a new file or add to an existing one, and it recorded in

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Positives: Compact, Easy To Use, Long Battery Life, Recording Media: Digital

Olympus DS-2400

$258.00 Est. at Amazon

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it works flawlessly with the as-2400 transcription kit on my macbook.
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the included dss player software supports both windows (2000, xp, and vista - including vista ultimate 64-bit) and macintosh (os x 10.39 - 10.5.6).

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Positives: Large Capacity, Nice Sound Quality, Excellent Portability

Tascam DR07 Portable Digital Recorder

$197.00 Est. at Amazon

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if you record in mp3 format you need a computer application (i use soundtrack pro on the mac) to chop up the file on your computer as the dr-07 provides no way to chop up a big mp3 file into
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note to apple and others: this is how things should be done--generic cabling, generic file formats, maximum flexibility.

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Positives: Great Sound Quality, Compact, Nice Portability

Olympus DS-40 Handheld Digital

$128.00 Est. at Amazon

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it would be nice to able to record directly into the .mp3 format rather than the default .wma, which is a microsoft audio format and will not play without third party software on a mac.
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i have a mac and plugging in the usb and opening files was seamless - it acted just like a jump drive.
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i don't know what support exists for wma on mac.

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Positives: Excellent Sound Quality, Easy To Use, Compact, Recording Media: Digital

Olympus DS-30 Handheld Digital

$95.00 Est. at Amazon

from Robert from Lexington, KY, www.circuitcity.com
(note: if you use a mac, don't buy this device!
from AllenG from Lincoln, NE, www.circuitcity.com
to catolog the lectures, i use easywma to convert the ds30's wma files to mp3 files and then put thelectures into itunes on my mac.
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my only complaint is there is not software for a mac for the ds-30.
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i bought the ds-30 in part because of the olympus reputation for compatibility with mac operating systems and because, in addition to offering folders for voice recordings, it had folders for
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for me as a linux and mac user, going through the windows file format is always a slight pain.

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Positives: Good Sound Quality, Large Capacity, Easy To Use, Recording Media: Digital

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