Digital Recording Equipment (Proprietary Files)

[Dorothy E Smith]

Download software called called Digital Audio Editor. It's not free but 
it's not expensive. You can use it to save audio files in other formats, 
e.g. with a .wav extension that would be compatible with most 
qualitative methods software like HyperResearch which will code audio.

I too have an Olympus. I've tried several and this is my favourite.

The Discourse Studies List wrote:

> I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
> and for my doctoral dissertation I am doing ethnographic research in 
> Israel.
> Recently, I purchased several Olympus digital recorders with the intention
> of recording meetings, conducting interviews, etc. However, I am quickly
> discovering that the proprietary software/files on the Olympus recorders
> prevents me from using the sound files on any transcription software other
> than the Olympus software, which has limitations. It is also possible that
> at some point I may share some of the files, but the proprietary nature of
> the recordings seems that it would make this difficult. Does anyone know a
> work-around for this problem? Otherwise can someone suggest a recorder 
> of a
> similar price/quality that is not proprietary?
>
> Thank you,
> Steve