![]() ![]() Recording features, that I’ve become used to, was the biggest disadvantage of The free apps have annoying ads, or need you to upgrade to access premiumįeatures – for instance the ability to upload your recording to dropbox. You may need to cough up a little bit ofĬash to buy/upgrade get a voice recording app that suits your needs. Your smartphone is not cheaper than a dedicated voice recorder (the ux560 costs And if it’s always with you, it’s very easy to take it out, open the right app, hit record and start recording your qualitative research interview. While I don’t always carry my smartphone with me (it’s bulky, runs out of power, very distracting) I realize that I lot of researchers can’t leave the house without their smartphone. You’ll need a good internetĬonnection, but they work seamlessly in the background to upload your recording ![]() Instantly upload your recording to these services. With cloud storage services, dropbox, google drive etc, that enabled you to Sharing the recordings via email was very easy. With the ux560, you’ll have physically connect the recorder to ![]() Advantages Easier File Management and SharingĪdvantage of a smartphone over a dedicated voice recorder is the easier file managementĪnd sharing. Phone to record a couple of interviews, there were distinct advantages over the And that’s mainly because of the otherįeatures that come with a dedicated voice recorder – for instance, the ability Marginally better, with a clear separation of the foreground and background,īut to capture great sound in the café, I required clip on microphones. There was too much background noise and it was difficult to It wasn’t as good as the ux560, but it was more than adequate for Was pleasantly surprised that I managed to get a very good recording from my My main concern was the quality of the audio recording – from my previous experience, I expected the audio from my phone to be poor. Everything was crisp clear except for one interview in a ‘quiet’ restaurant that later became noisy – so yes I agree with you about location.”Īnd so I set out test a few recording apps on my android phone and compare them to recordings made using the Sony ICD-ux560 voice recorder. But I recently got this comment from a reader of this blog: “Have recently finished about 20 qualitative interviews and used a ‘Voice Recorder’ app downloaded to my phone. ![]()
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