Voice recording on a Tungsten E!

[forthat]

Is it possible?, I know it's not there, but the PDA has a good speaker capable of playing music and any kind of sound and any speaker is a microphone too since all microphones are speakers anyway.

So is there any software that would allow you to do that?,
I mean if they figured out how to play WAV files in older Palm Pilots like the V and m100 with the right software they may as well do this with this model, don't you think?

[William_nd]

Maybe it depends on what kind of speaker is inside of the Tungsten E.
If someone develops such an voice recording application, I will be surely one of the TE-users who will be eager to pay for such add-on.
Anybody else?

[106112909]

True, all speakers are microphones but that depends on how they are wired. I'm sure that if the T|E's speaker was somehow wried so it could also be microphone PalmOne themeselves would have bundled their voice recording app with the T|E. Playing a WAV file on an older Palm didn't require special wiring for the speaker; it was still an output device used in a different way.

[craigp00]

hello,
there is no way to make the speaker a mic. it is not a device that accepts input from anyother device such as a mic. those are two different things and audio formats. You could however, transfer a .wav or mp3 file from a computer to the realone platform. hope this helps.
Criagp

[NikaTequila]

There has got to be a way to mod a microphone onto the TE though. I'm not good a this kind of stuff, not very anyways, so I'm gonna leave the development of this idea to a hardcore modder.

[forthat]

That's what I say, there has to be a way, I mean it can't be just like that, the Tungsten E is such a good model (better than many others that cost a lot more) and the only thing missing is a voice recording to be the best Palm Powered PDA around, the most compleate yet simple without too many whistle and useless show up functions.

[iamthebug]

Who really cares? I doubt there is a way to do it, but i used to have an iPaq before converting to palm which had a microphone and i never used it, it is just as easy to jot something down.

[NikaTequila]

I really hope there's a way to do it simply b/c I have this little digital recorder that I use all the time, and I'd like to not have to carry it around anymore.

[craigp00]

hello,
I can only think of one way that a voice recording application/hardware would work with the palm Tungsten E. It may be possible to engineer hardware that would insert into the SD slot with an implemented microphone. One question though: Is it really worth it? I don't like to hear myself talk anyway, so i'd rather write it down.
-Craig Peters

[forthat]

That's a great idea, that way it would be optional for the ones who actually use it and could apply to any Palm not just the Tungsten E. Just like they made a card for bluetooth they could make one for voice recording recording.

[NikaTequila]

That was exactly the type of add-on that I was thinking would work. We should all email Palm & tell them to come out with something like that! They would make a lot of money on it- I know I'd but one.

[craigp00]

hey,
I'll email palm for a possible proposal to a voice recording type of hardware for the tungsten E, i will post info as soon as i receive it from palm,
best regards,
craig peters:cool: