Selecting Digital Voice Recorders

Portable, affordable & easy-to-use are just a few of the many advantages associated with buying a digital voice recorder. With a wide variety of digital voice recorders available in the market, it can be quite confusing to make the best choice. However, to make things easy, here are a few general features you need to consider while buying a digital voice recorder:

Recording Time: This is the first thing to consider while selecting a digital voice recorder. While most digital voice recorders boast of over 250 hrs of recording time, it should be remembered that, if the quality of recording is high only a few hours of recording time is available. Thus, the important thing is to check out the recording time in high quality mode.

Record Quality: This is yet another important factor to consider. The record quality needs may vary depending upon the intended use. While the “Standard Play Mode” is good for purposes like dictation, for recording conferences or interviews, you need recorder offering “High Quality Mode”.

Recorder Data Storage: Business professionals often require digital voice recorders capable of storing more than just voice files. A digital voice recorder having a USB mass storage class support is capable of storing other file types like, images & documents.

Recording Features: Though the desired features vary from person to person, there are a few basic features which must surely be considered.

• Basic Operation – This includes checking whether the recorder can be operated through push buttons or thumb slide switch.
• Voice Activation – Whereby recording is stopped automatically every time there is a period of silence.
• Cue/Review Feature – Whereby it becomes easier for you to locate a section of the recording that you wish to play back.