#Sony digital voice recorder manuals#

This new one certainly is kinder to new users, though, and can be used almost without thinking once the familiarity is there.Digital Recorder Market Report focuses on industry growth segments, value and volume, product type and applications, development trends and business strategies of Top Manufacturers – Canon, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony, Koninklijke Philips, Olympus, TEAC It isn't a quantum leap either of beyond my old machines, bt then simplicity is what these are all supposed to be about.

#Sony digital voice recorder manuals#

You'll find PDF manuals at .uk/electronics/support/digital-voice-recorders-icd-series/icd-ux570/manuals, and for those that don't like cluttering their systems with PDF files, there's an online version at the same link - should you have any concerns about how it is operated. Fortuntately I'd hung on to the previous device's slip case and, if you're replacing an older voice recording with this one, you should also keep that case handy, you'll need it.

I'm also not a fan of the missing device sleeve that used to come with voice recorders - a little slip case that kept dust at bay is not included in the Sony package for this one. If you give your voice recorders a tough life you may prefer the fact that the connector is hidden away inside the device. The UX-81 has a fixed port onto which clips an end cover for the device as a whole, which for me is a far neater arrangement. All the numbers can be seen at /icd/u57/v1/en2/contents/TP0002426582.html. My main requirement has always been that both my recorders produce MP3 files, and that's the format offered here along with 'LPCM', which creates CD-quality (44.1) WAV files should you really want to push the quality at the expense of the machine's memory - it makes a difference in fidelity but also records noise etc just as faithfully! According to Sony, recording at top quality (LPCM) will fill the built in 4MB memory in 5 hours 20 minutes, at top quality MP3 (MP3 is a compressed format that is somewhat less faithful) you get 39 hours 45 minutes. Once you've figured out the labelling system the basics come to hand very easily and, if anything, the workflow (such as it is) for this recorder is very familiar, and the display has a lot more information available. If you use this regularly the simplicity makes it very intuitive within a very short time. The operation of the device was very intuitive for me, there's broadly only three operations I care about, switching it on and off, recording, and stopping recording - after setting a recording sensitivity, ideally. There is an option to focus the machine's 'listening pattern' (mic response) to a focused mode, which does go a little way to reducing noise if I'm dictating ideas while walking outdoors. In these cases you'll need to listen back and improve your typing speeds instead. This does as well as the the other machines in that regard, in noisy environments such as a windy day, or walking on gravel, or nearby traffic, the background noice will interfere with auto-transcription but the voice is still perfectly intelligible to the human ear. Important for me is the ability to create particularly clear voice files that can be run through an automatic transcription program such as Nuance's 'Naturally Speaking', which can - with training - transcribe our verbals into text. I pored over the specs and user experiences and gravitated to this one since it most resembled the previous ones I'd owned, and all the reasons I'd settled on my older device. When the UX81 began to complain of having the odd problem with voice file storage when connected through USB and the UX-543 simply failed overnight, I looked hard for the next logical dictation device. I write for a living and like to take long walks and dream up ideas, and also need to record them for when I get back home (sometimes an exact turn of phrase can be quite hard to remember). I came to this recorder having been using Sony's ICD-UX81 and UX-543 for years.