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iPhone Apps We Like: QuickVoice Voice Recorder Is Great For Field Journos

7:40AM July 26, 2008 | John Mahoney

If you’re covering an event and already carrying a huge gear bag with a laptop, camera, emergency Cliff bars and all the rest, QuickVoice is a welcome replacement for a standalone digital voice recorder. We like QuickVoice as a late addition to our favourites for its pause feature, which allows you to start and stop recordings without creating a whole new clip.


The only hitch is you can’t email the clips out from the phone, but how often do you actually need to keep your quick audio notes? Just break out the headphones, transcribe, delete. Done. [Ed. Note: I love emailing the clips from my Olympus digital voice recorder so I can email them to India and have them transcribed overnight.]Quality and range won’t match a dedicated recorder, but definitely get the job done–I was able to hear my voice well enough to transcribe talking quietly from the other side of a 12-foot room. There are a couple other voice recorders in the store, but at $1.99 we’re liking QuickVoice. [QuickVoice, Our Favourite Apps, App Review Marathon]


Comments

  • vj jasper

    July 29, 2008 at 11:39 AM

    cool app..
    if you have not checked out Mixmeister (free) or PaklSound1 (inspired by the Tenori On zen sequencer),
    then you may be interested to check them out.
    PaklSound1 not available yet;
    i just watched example vids at vjforums.com.

    another two cool apps:

    BeatMaker (rather expensive and yet good to have, so i can always be creatively productive)
    and a new app in beta testing, a multi touch midi app
    by a fellow known as Nonnus from Portugal.
    peace.

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