are there any good-quality voice recorder apps? they must be able to record in 44.1-48khz wav or 192kbps mp3 or equivalent

Let me know what you find. Although my audio requirements are that high (I would be happy with 22khz wave) I would like to have something.

thanks,

Craig...

Doubtful that the microphone installed in these things is worth recording at a highter bit rate.

This isn't a high-quality recording device. High bitrates won't give high quality recordings. If you have a really good external mike, you'll probably get better results, but if you're using the internal mike you're wasting your time and storage space. There is a recorder available, Maemo Recorder. It's plenty good enough for voice memos, and that's about all you can expect using the internal mike.

In another thread about recorder their is a link to a splitter that allows you to hook up an external mic into the headphone jack.

Has anybody attempted the recording app in KDE?

In my experience, even the cheapest, crappiest mics in the world will generally sound much better at higher sampling and bitrates than they do at 8bit/8khz.

Yes, but 192 is overkill. Something in between would probably work...

dblank is right.

sgosnell, that's an mp3 encoding bitrate--doesn't necessarily have any relationship to the sample/bitrate at which the audio is recorded.

I haven't tried this yet, (maybe it will be recording too much keyclicking).

But, it would make an interesting option for classroom / note-taking to use voice recording along with typing notes onscreen in some app w/ the iGo keyboard.

Then you can just fold it all up into your shirt pocket. (take THAT Macbook Air! )

I don't think there's anything wrong with the quality of the N800 microphone as mini-microphones go. It's not expensive these days to have a reasonably high-quality microphone, at least enough to benefit from a high sampling rate to pick up higher frequencies (Nyquist criterium - sampling frequency must be 2x the highest frequency you want to record). What's typically more expensive is a microphone designed for directional pickup and noise cancelling so that it records anything but noisy echoing distorted sound in a large room, and full bass frequency range below 150 Hz.