Personal dictation devices are designed to help you dictate more efficiently, as opposed to simply recording an event. While they don’t have professional features, such as encryption, file transfers and management, and rechargeable power supplies, these recorders can help you be more efficient, while giving you full editing capabilities.
Most inexpensive recorders do not allow you to stop, review and re-record: important features when you’re dictating. Other recorders simply record an event. If you stop and record again, you’re creating a new, separate digital voice file. The dictation recorders on this page allow you to stop, back-up and re-record. You can even insert new passages within an existing dictation file!
The personal dictation recorders on this page record in a special DSS format, which is great for recording the human voice, but less than stellar when recording music or capturing lectures and meetings. For those “events,” consider a voice/music recorder.
Recorders
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Olympus DS-2800
The Olympus DS-2800 digital dictation device makes organised and efficient dictation quick and easy for professionals working in small and medium-sized businesses.
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Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9375
Handy, powerful and efficient, you can easily control the latest recording technology with push buttons. With the exchangeable SD card, you have virtually unlimited recording capacity
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Olympus DS-2400
The Olympus DS-2400 gives you high-performance at an entry-level price, including many of the features of its professional range of dictation recorders.
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Digital vs Tape
Digital vs Tape
Professional handheld digital recorders have similar controls to the old-fashioned tape predecessors: slide up the side switch to record, slide down to playback, hold down to review.
Fortunately, that’s where much of the similarity ends:
- Digital files sound better than tape, especially after cassettes have been recorded over several times.
- No tapes to break!
- Digital voice files can be easily transferred for manual or automatic transcription. Turnaround on dictation is faster.
- No expensive service contracts. What’s to service on a solid-state device?
- No physical tapes, mean less expense. And, with most professional models, rechargeable battery packs reduce the high cost of batteries.