{"id":29009,"date":"2017-06-09T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29009"},"modified":"2017-06-08T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T00:51:35","slug":"olympus-digital-voice-recorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/olympus-digital-voice-recorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus Digital Voice Recorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had rotten luck with voice recorders over the years. Quite a few micro-cassette recorders have conked out on me (sometimes while conducting interviews for magazine articles). Once, I used a minidisc recorder and ejected the disk without first stopping the recording and I lost everything.<\/p>\n

When I interviewed Martha Stewart in her office for Wired<\/em> in 2007 (here’s the article<\/a>), I used both a tape recorder *and* a microphone attachment for my iPod to record our conversation. When we sat down to talk, I decided at the last second to I pull out my laptop and use the built-in mic to record the conversation, too.<\/p>\n

When I got back to the hotel room and turned on my three recording devices, I learned that the tape recorder and iPod didn’t record the conversation (probably my fault), but the laptop recording was OK. If I hadn’t used the laptop, I would have been dead in the water. No way would Martha have granted me another interview.<\/p>\n

When I wrote Made by Hand<\/a> I interviewed a bunch of people. I used a tiny Olympus Digital Voice Recorder to interview people as we stood and walked in their yards, workshops, launch-sites, compounds, and so on. It worked beautifully. The interface was pretty easy to figure out, and the built-in USB plug was very handy. I just attached it my computer and copied the audio file to my hard drive. (I used to transcribe recordings myself but now I use Rev.com and pay $1 a minute for good transcriptions)<\/p>\n

It uses two AAA batteries (advertised to have 110 hours of battery life), and you can switch the microphone between dictation and conference mode. The first model I bought had 256 MB of flash storage with 18 hours in the high quality mode and 69 hours in the lowest-quality mode. The latest model has 4 GB of storage and is advertised to store 1,400 hours of recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Records 1,000 hours as MP3 files<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29014,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29009\/revisions\/29014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}