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Review on πŸŽ™οΈ Optimized Sony ICD UX533BLK Digital Voice Recorder by Miro Dadee

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Impressive little dictaphone, perfect for journalists

I'm thrilled. I'm a journalist and I've always given phone interviews, typing in people's responses as they spoke. But I took on a different type of assignment, which involved doing live face-to-face interviews and interviewing people on the street. I have no experience with these little voice recorders but I love this thing. It captures understandable speech in offices, bars and busy streets. Even if someone overhears what we're talking about from afar and makes a casual comment, they pick it up perfectly. I even gave small children a Dictaphone and asked them to interview each other. The results are incredible. It's non-intrusive when I start talking to people, I'm letting people know they're being included. But they forget it within a minute or two. I get a lot more from audio than print interviews. I even sent audio to a friend's podcast and the quality of the mic and resulting stereo sound is really impressive for something so cheap and reliable. I can only recommend that. At the end of the day, I can plug it straight into my Mac, charge the battery, transfer audio to my laptop, and reorganize the files I leave on the device. Highly recommended.

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  • Without automatic