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I bought this microphone to record lectures in school. It works pretty well, especially if you're sitting close to the speaker. At the back of the room, you pick up a lot of background noise, but you can still what's being said. I've only used it in small classrooms, so I can't comment on how it would perform in a lecture hall, but my guess is that it would be okay if the speaker was using a microphone. My main complaint, however, is that it drains the battery in my iPod (an 80G iPod classic) from a full charge in a little over an hour, so if you have a full day of lectures, you're out of luck.

It does everything it says it will do. I'm happy with the audio quality but there's no detent in the design of the plug to hold it in the itouch or ipod. it works well for recording but my $400.00 itouch looks pretty trashy with a rubber band around it holding the microphone in place.

This little unit does an amazing job. I employed it to record the musical portion of a chamber orchestra recital from the rear of a mid-sized church sanctuary. The iVoiceIII picked up the music. However, I had to amplify the resultant WAV file via an audio package (the open source Audacity does a great job). After amplifying the recording and removing extraneous audio, I saved each track as an mp3 file. You can also use the iVoiceIII as a simple voice recorder for note taking. A great little item.

This is one great device to have. I can now make phone calls using my 1st gen. ipod touch(along with Skype). There are no cons concerning this product.

I've been using this microphone all year. It is very easy to use. You just attach it to the i-pod and record anything you want. I use it to record live music of all sorts. The sound quality is great! I recommend it for music teachers and music lovers!