January
2008
Recording Interviews or Dictation for transcription? You can use your iPod!0
There are a huge variety of voice recorders out there. They all do different things, and which one you get will depend on what’s most important to you. If you want a voice recorder that’s dedicated to just that, then see my article on getting the recording equipment that’s right for your transcription needs. But if you’re prime issue is price (as it is with many students in particular) and if you already have an iPod (which many students, among others, do) then why not use that?
You will need to buy an external microphone, but that’s much cheaper than buying a voice recorder that you can download files on to your PC from – which you’d need to do to send them to your transcriber.
You can’t do this from all iPods but the later models will all allow it – the voice memo software is already on there.
Recordings are saved in wav format, which isn’t ideal for sending on for transcription, as the files are very large; but having said that they are good quality and our transcription service is able to cope with upload and download of larger files.
Full details of how to do it are available on the Apple website so why not have a look?