[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu compatible digital voice recorder

[Kris Douglas]

On 29 September 2011 15:24, James Morrissey <morrissey.james1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent digital voice recorder that is
> compatible with Ubuntu.
>
> I am heading off on fieldwork where i will need to record interviews for
> subsequent transcribing. The recorder need not be too sophisticated and
> ideally fairly cheap. It just needs do the basics of recording, have a
> decent battery life and memory (i will be working in rural Ethiopia so away
> from power points for extended periods) and be small enough to make it easy
> to carry around (long walks across farmers fields in the mountains) and not
> intrusive in interviews.
>
> From what i can tell most people suggest the Olympus or Sony models but both
> of these appear to have compatibility issues with Ubuntu.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, they'd be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.

I would have thought a cheap mp3 player which supports voice recording
would be ideal. They just dump the recording to the SD card as a wav
or mp3 or whatever.



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