T3 Voice Memo Sampling Rate

[backhand]

I'm wondering if the Voice Memo sampling rate can be improved; 8 kHz at 16bits is pretty bad. I'd be happy if we could get it up to 16 kHz (8kHz bandwidth) or more.

With a memory card, there's more than enough time for my purposes. I'd appreciate being able to trade time for quality.

TIA

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[Dragwyr]

No, there is not way to change the sampling rate on the T3. To get around this problem, I downloaded Wave Edit Pro (http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=52051) You can select up to 8 different sampling rates and save them all to your SD card. It works great and sounds so much better than the default voice recorder.

[backhand]

Thanks Dragwyr! I was surprised to find a sound editing app for the palm! I've tried it and it's very nice but not quite suited to my purposes because it's not really designed as a quick memo recorder; it's overkill for my needs, and I have desktop software to do what it does.

I really like the functionality of the built-in Voice Memo; I just wish it had a "quality" setting. My tests with the WaveEdit software proves that it is possible for the hardware to record at higher rates (though the author reports more noise at higher rates, I don't mind trading some noise for fidelity, and my brief tests prove the results are quite acceptable; noise can be dealt with using pro noise reduction if necessary).

So it's just a question of Palm integrating this option in a future version of Voice Memo. I'll write to them. I just might go for Wave Edit in the meantime.

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[Dragwyr]

[b]backhand[\b], I found the same issues as well. Wave Edit is great for higher fidelity sound recording, but for the quick voice memo, it tends to fall short and is a bit cumbersome to get started. It would be nice if Wave Edit had a feature to be enabled and start recording at a pre-defined sampling rate by pressing the voice memo button on the unit.

Perhaps palm will make higher sampling rates an option later on.