Richard makes a good a point here. The Olypus digital voice recorders are used quite a lot by VI people who seem to get along with them well enough. I guess with the more exspensive ones that take a memory card you can simply put the card into a card reader and have software supplied with the recorder decode the audio. As for mini-disc, well I'm a great fan, but its well and truly on its way out now, due to Sony's commercial stupidity as much as technological progress. All the sony MD net software I've seen is truly gastly, a right pain. If you are into cracking nuts with sledghammers then Sony Sound Forge has an option to save to MINI disc. As for reading them, I doubt it, but I don't know. Of course you can always transfer the files via audio in real time through the line input of a soundcard. HTH. Ray Personal emails: Email me at mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Godfrey" <richard.godfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 3:09 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: is there a USB compatible iminidisk recorder that has software that is visually impaired friendly? > Alexander, Does it have to be a minidisk? The digital Olympus range give > pretty good accessibility, time and USB connectivity. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 27/05/2005 > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq