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Sony ICD-MX20 Memory Stick Pro Duo Digital Voice Recorder
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	List Price: $299.95 *Features* • Compact, handheld digital recorder • Memory uses high-capacity IC chip • Hybrid media card storage with Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo • Features advanced digital voice operated recording (VOR) • Measures 1.18 x 0.67 x 4.23 inches (W x D x H)
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Sony ICD-MX20 Memory Stick Pro Duo Digital Voice Recorder description
Professional quality sound and high-level functionality are what distinguish the ICD-MX20 Memory Stick Pro Duo Digital Voice Recorder. Sony has designed a powerful, sleek recorder with a seamless aluminum body. The slim-style design is only one-half inch thick, with "record" and "pause" controls located on the side of the unit for easy operation. This tiny device fits neatly into a shirt pocket. Record grandma for an audio-genealogy or interview a famous celebrity -- whether you're recording for personal or professional reasons, you'll be extremely pleased.

The built-in 32 MB flash memory uses a high-capacity IC chip. This technology allows you to record over old messages again and again with distortion-free clarity. The standout feature on the ICD-MX20 is the hybrid storage. It gives you the option of using the built-in flash memory or utilizing Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo media cards, providing virtually unlimited capacity. This is a great feature if you're at a long conference, and don't have time to download your files to a computer. Just put in a new Memory Stick media card, and keep recording. Each card can hold over 300 personalized folders, which makes organizing your audio a simple process.

The ICD-MX20 allows you to record at different quality levels. The high-quality, two-channel STLP recording mode allows up to 165 minutes of recording. This is perfect for recording interviews that you may want to reproduce in digital format. If you're just taking personal audio notes, switch the voice recorder to LP mode and take full advantage of over 11 hours of lower quality recording.

The advanced digital voice operated recording (VOR) feature actually stops recording during silent pauses, saving valuable recording time. Thanks to the digital buffer, this intelligent machine begins recording again without missing a single syllable. The digital recorder also comes equipped with USB connectivity for high speed copying of files to a PC.

What's in the Box
ICD-MX20 voice recorder, PC download software, 2 AAA batteries, USB cable, carrying case, and stereo earphones.

Sony ICD-MX20 Memory Stick Pro Duo Digital Voice Recorder Customer Reviews

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Good "Mid-range" Consumer-Grade Recorder For Voice Recognition

If you're interested in dictation and voice-recognition, the Sony ICD-MX20 is an excellent "midrange" consumer-grade recorder. It's expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as the high-end professional-grade Olympus or Philips recorders, and I've been getting good results with it. The Sony's joystick and other controls are small, but not that difficult to use once you get used to them, and I didn't think the enclosed instructions were hard to follow at all. I'm not a real heavy user yet, so I can't say anything definite about the battery life, but personally I don't have to change batteries that often as long as I remember to put the recorder on Hold when I'm not using it. My only complaint with Sony recorders in general is that they don't come with a decent carrying pouch. The one provided with the recorder is useless and I ended up having to search around until I found a cell-phone belt-pouch I could use.

I use the MX20 strictly for dictation, so I have no idea how good it is for recording lectures or music and the like. I do most of my dictation while driving around in my car and I always use a high-end noise-canceling headset mike (the Knowbrainer Hand's Free mike which is basically the same as the more expensive Sennheiser ME3 which I use for dictating at my laptop). With this setup, I've been getting around 98 percent accuracy with my transcriptions (using Dragon Naturally Speaking v9.5 and the recorder settings specified by Nuance). Personally, I think you almost have to use a good noise-canceling mike if you want to get decent results from transcribing dictation, so if this is what you're interested in, you should count on spending another $50 to $100 or so in addition to the price of the recorder. All in all, the MX20 is probably not the best recorder for speech-recognition, but it works pretty well and it's a reasonable compromise if you can't afford $500 for a Philips 9600 or an Olympus DS-4000.

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