If you've ever spent hours manually transcribing long conversations, you know very well the utter monotony of the task. And, while there are amazing apps out there that help with this these days, ...

From my earliest days as a journalist, I’ve always prized my dictaphone. It sounds quaint now, but I actually remember excitedly keeping up with advancements in the field. Sony’s ICD-TX50 was a ...

Brown's prolific output was enabled by this portable machine on which he dictated five of his books published between 1999 and 2005 Lester R. Brown is one of the few authors laying claim to an entire ...

Matthew Hughes is a freelance writer and software developer from Liverpool, England. When he's not hunting down bugs and typos, he's planning his upcoming wedding. He likes cooking, Apple computers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. You could be forgiven for thinking that the market for ...

With its ICD-TX50, Sony has introduced what it's calling its slimmest ever voice recorder. The quarter-inch (6.4mm) device weighs 1.8 ounces (50 g) - combined with its 4 GB memory (plus microSD) the ...

My first attempt at producing a podcast last year was a big let-down. Armed with a digital dictaphone that I’d borrowed from a colleague, I went off to record a bunch of student journalists in a big ...

Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews has lost all credibility over Labor's role in accessing a reporter's recording device, according to former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu. The Labor Party ...

Sound quality on phones, video recorders and dictaphones is often poor, distorted or noisy with garbled speech or indistinct music. Now, acoustic scientists have developed new algorithms to improve ...