There are numerous reasons why you might want to purchase digital voice recorders. And believe it or not, most of them aren't for covert reasons. For instance, doctors use digital voice recorders every day in their practice. Working a full and busy practice, it makes a doctor's life so much easier when he uses digital voice recorders to record his notes, treatment options, instructions and important information after each patient. Then when his working day is done, all his secretary has to do is type it up and put it in the appropriate folders. She does not need to worry about trying to translate the doctor's indecipherable writing.

Other people who would find the use of digital voice recorders handy are college and high school students. If you are a college student, you know that you often have long, extensive classes consisting of lecture after lecture, and since shorthand seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird, you probably have found that you just can't write as fast as the professor can speak. By using digital voice recorders, you can solve your note-taking nightmare and easily capture every word he or she says. Then once you are back home, and it is time to study, you can play it back at your leisure, taking notes as needed and concentrating on studying. Some people even find that by listening to a lecture over and over, they can memorize or learn it easier and do not even have to take notes.