On 29 September 2011 15:24, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@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. -- Regards, Kris Douglas. www.krisd.eu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/