# Recommendations for a digital voice recorder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-digital-voice-recorder/320935>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-digital-voice-recorder/320935 "2005-09-10T03:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-digital-voice-recorder/320935/1 "2005-09-10T03:12:27Z")

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As you may or may not know, I’m a college student. It’s recently been becoming more clear that I need a voice recorder of some sort. I think a digital voice recorder is the way to go, as I would have nearly unlimited storage (for my purposes, at least) as long as I can transfer the recordings to my computer.

Here is a list of things I need it for/it would come in handy for:

Recording lectures.  
Recording interviews (I’m a journalism major and, as a part of class, must do several interviews).  
Recording choir practices.  
Recording “taped tests” for choir.

And, not for school, I’ve been wanting to do a sort of oral history of my family for a long time, and if I had something that would record clearly and be easy to use and store in a readily-accessible format, I might just do it.

Any suggestions? Obviously, the higher the quality/price ratio is the better.

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**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-a-digital-voice-recorder/320935/2 "2005-09-10T03:57:38Z")

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Oooh, this would be totally handy! I’m awaiting answers aws well.