If you've ever spent hours manually transcribing long conversations, you know very well the utter monotony of the task. And, while there are amazing apps out there that help with this these days, ...

Brown's prolific output was enabled by this portable machine on which he dictated five of his books published between 1999 and 2005 Lester R. Brown is one of the few authors laying claim to an entire ...

With its ICD-TX50, Sony has introduced what it's calling its slimmest ever voice recorder. The quarter-inch (6.4mm) device weighs 1.8 ounces (50 g) - combined with its 4 GB memory (plus microSD) the ...

Matthew Hughes is a freelance writer and software developer from Liverpool, England. When he's not hunting down bugs and typos, he's planning his upcoming wedding. He likes cooking, Apple computers ...

I wondered this when I was sent an Olympus DS-9500, a new digital handheld audio recorder, similar in looks to one you used for dictating notes, letters and interviews eons ago. Journalists are ...

My first attempt at producing a podcast last year was a big let-down. Armed with a digital dictaphone that I’d borrowed from a colleague, I went off to record a bunch of student journalists in a big ...