Hi Folks. I just subscribed, and I didn't see a mailing list search function, so I'm asking the question here. Apologies if this has been belabored to death in the past. I'm looking for a small (small enough to fit in a pocket of my already-somewhat-full cargo pants pockets) voice recorder to use in meetings and those all-day classes sysadmins get sent to once in a while. After a bit of googling, I found that I could get an mp3-recorder with 256M down to about US$50, but then I started looking into ogg, and from there, looking into speex. Am I correct in assuming that using speex would greatly reduce the memory requirements in the player over mp3, or even ogg? Are there any prepackaged devices that'll do speex recording to CF or SDCard or whatever kind of built-in memory that can be sync'd to a linux box via USB? Also, I was musing a bit about whether I could feed recorded meetings and/or classes into a speech-to-text engine like CMU sphinx 2-flat - but would using a lossy or VBR codec like speex potentially interfere with this sort of usage? Thanks, and again, many apologies if this has been covered ad nauseum in the past!