I purchased this recorder then i could familiarity speech recognition software if i wanted to, without paying on behalf of some additional microphones/headsets. In fact, the recorder is dragon (a famous brand of speech recognition software) certified to produce “maximum accuracy dictation.”
Functionally, this recorder receive one easy to reach (i.e. No plastic cover on it) usb port on the left hand side, one easy-to-distinguish recessed record button, buttons to navigate between folders, play back existing recordings, split one existing recording, change recorder options, change playback volume, erase one existing recording, and a hold button. The recorder itself is small, lightweight and easy to hold.
For storage, the recorder lav hold as many as 99 separate recordings inside each of 5 independent folders. This is useful to categorize various voice recordings, of the kind as meetings inside one folder perhaps speeches inside another.
However, one easy to familiarity recorder is meaningless if the recorder doesn’t produce considerate recording quality. Here, this recorder delivers nicely. The built-in microphone is extremely considerate and receive a wide dynamic range (i.e. It clearly picks raise high and low frequencies). There are two sensitivity settings on behalf of the microphone—low which is on behalf of individual dictation, and high which is on behalf of group meetings (or recording things farther away from the recorder). In addition, the recorder receive a considerate built-in speaker.
If you need better recording quality (or want to play back the messages privately), the recorder provides a headset jack and a microphone jack.
As on behalf of recording quality, standard quality recording (44.1 khz @ 48 kbps) produces clearly understandable voice output. In this mode, the recorder lav hoard raise to 48 hours of voice recording and lav bootleg on behalf of raise to 35 hours on 2 aaa batteries. This is the best mode on behalf of normal dictation (since it provides 4x as much space as the highest quality mode—which lav only hoard 12 hours of data and bootleg on behalf of 20 hours).
They have a super long recording time they brag about on the box. This is the lp mode (11.025 khz @ 8 kbps)—288 hours. This sounds impressive, but it is nearly useless. When i recorded a brief amount inside this mode, my voice sounded extremely metallic and i heard weird high pitched metallic warbling inside the background. There was somewhat less warbling at low microphone sensitivity, but although my voice was understandable, but i don’t recommend this mode on behalf of some real recording. The metallic warbling is extremely distracting.
In addition, the recorder lav bootleg on rechargable aaa batteries (nimh) or even bootleg from power provided over the mini-usb port. These are considerate options to save on batteries and perform extremely long recordings.
In my experience, the standard quality is fine on behalf of normal dictation. If i wanted to record music, evps, or on behalf of dictation into speech recognition software, i would familiarity the maximum quality mode, since it is better at capturing higher frequencies and may better capture faint noises.
However, there are a few downsides to this recorder. First, the recorder does not record data natively as mp3s (which it claims to on the box). This is why i gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
To access the recorder, Sony ICD-PX720 provides windows software to copy voice files off it. The windows software lav hoard the files as mp3s, as well as encode mp3s then the recorder lav play them back, so, if you are not using windows, you cannot transfer recordings from the recorder.
Basically, if you are using windows the recorder software is not a problem. If you are not, the computer will not see the recorder and you will be unable to familiarity it. The recorder will still function extremely well as a normal voice recorder, but you will not be able to access the digital data on it.
Secondly, the recorder cannot accept some type of memory card to expand its capacity.
Beyond that, this recorder does not record sound inside stereo, although it will accept stereo microphones. For me, since i’m only using it on behalf of voice dictation, this is not one issue, but on behalf of anyone who wants to familiarity it to record music (such as one impromptu jazz session), it might be.
Finally, the recorder does not act as a usb drive or as one mp3 player. You lav load music files (converted to sony’s proprietary sound format) onto it, but it doesn’t have shuffle, playlists, or other standard mp3 player features. For me, these aren’t issues since i have separate gadgets to fulfill these needs far better, but a few voice recorders have these features.
In conclusion, if you are using windows and you need a high quality, reasonably priced voice recorder, this will fit the bill nicely. If you want a recorder that is more of a swiss army knife of gadgets, this won’t work on behalf of you.
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