| Average Customer Rating: 3.5/5
Total Reviews: 13 |
Rating: 3
Good for Voice Recognition; Ergonomics Need Improvement
Having used voice recorders daily for 20 years, I always find Olympus brands to be more sturdy, ergonomic, reliable and have better warranty policies and service. The reason to buy this Sony was better voice recognition with Dragon Naturally Speaking and ease of transfer files to computer. Controls in this unit are not very intuitively placed although not so bad that they are difficult to use. Voice recognition is good. Manual is so terrible that it is almost unusable.
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Rating: 1
Do Not Buy This Recorder
| Shame on Sony. I wish I could give this zero stars. This is the least user-friendly or professional friendly recorder I have ever purchased. The instructions are terribly translated, and very hard to follow, even for the seasoned recording user. But the worst part is that all the controls are on this RIDICULOUSLY tiny button on the front which, unless you have very long, sharp fingernails or incredibly thin fingers, you are sure to hit stop when you are trying to hit play, etc etc. So what if the sound quality is good if you can't get the tiny little button to move to where you need it to go? A waste of time and an exercise in frustration. Don't bother. |
Rating: 5
The Best--Give it 10 stars
I'm a professional writer and bought this recorder to use with Dragon Naturally Speaking V.9. I tried using an Olympus recorder with V.7 of the software and it didn't work well, even though dictating directly into my computer via a microphone worked great.
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