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Digital Voice Recorders

Today's technology-savvy world is packed with handheld devices - PDAs, iPods, iPhones, Blackberries, and, for the business person or student on the go, convenient digital voice recorders. Here, we'll take a look at the device and figure out why it's just as handy as the trendiest handheld gadgets.

The DVR: What is it?

Not to be confused with digital video recorders, digital voice recorders are much like the handheld cassette recorders of the last century; voice memos, lectures, interviews, or meetings can be recorded to a memory chip in the recorder and played back later.

How it works

While the basic recording premise is the same for all digital voice recorders, the main differences between the market's various types have to do with recording quality rates and the devices' amounts of memory space. The two features go hand in hand, as the recording quality directly affects the memory space. Low-quality recordings, for example, use less of a digital voice recorder's memory space, while high-quality recordings use more - meaning low-quality recordings maximize the number of audio hours a digital voice recorder can store.

Digital convenience

Because digital voice recorders have a solid-state memory, users never have to rewind recorded material - simply press "play" to hear your notes, and use standard pause, search, and tracking options to quickly scan through recorded files. Most DVRs have two to five folders in which to store recordings, and some have functions that allow users to move, split, and delete files. Most importantly, many DVRs have a USB port to make downloading recorded files to a computer a snap.