What is the best digital recorder for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking?
Digital recorder quality has greatly improved recently and there are two digital recorders that we highly recommend for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The Sony BM-1 and the Olympus DS-2200 are both excellent recorders due to the high sampling rate that each reporter features. When looking for a digital recorder that will work well with Dragon NaturallySpeaking, look for a sampling rate of 12 kHz or faster as this will provide a higher-quality sound file to Dragon NaturallySpeaking for more accurate transcription when you use a digital recorder for mobile dictation. Not long ago, the best you could hope for with a digital recorder was around 92% accuracy. By using the newer were digital recorders mentioned above, you can easily obtain accuracy up to 98%. This is only a 1% accuracy loss from dictation straight through a headset microphone connected to a computer sound card.
