Sony ICD-P17 Digital Voice Recorder with USB Connectivity

Sony's slim ICD-P17 portable digital voice recorder gives you up to 278 minutes of recording time using its 16 MB of built-in flash memory. Other key features include USB 1.1 connectivity for easy hookup with your PC and speedy data transfer, overwrite functionality, and five different message files with up to 99 messages per file. The recorder is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, Me, and XP. Overwrite is a professional dictation feature that lets you listen through the last correct word of a recording in playback, then--at the press of the record button--pick up from that point with additional content.

All the dictation from that point is automatically erased and replaced with the new dictation. With the author-name function, your name can be part of the file structure so that every dictation includes your name. You can activate this function using the supplied Digital Voice Editor software when the ICD-P17 is connected to your PC via the USB cable. Other features include an informative LCD, a built-in microphone (with high/low mic sensitivity), a built-in playback speaker, add-recording (resumes recording from the end of a given message; not available during overwrite), alarm-play (which lets you to record a message and then set a date and time for it to automatically play), a battery-saving hold switch, and jacks for an external earphone and an external microphone.

The unit derives 10 hours of recording (8 playback) from two AAA batteries (supplied). What's in the BoxVoice recorder, software CD, two AAA batteries, a USB cable, and a user's manual.