Altec Lansing's VoicePod is a desktop recorder and playback device that gives
email the power of the spoken - or shouted - word.  

The mushroomlike Pod stylishly combines speakers, a microphone, and
push-button controls. Connection to your PC is a simple USB affair, and its
sound is bigger and richer than you might expect. Within a few minutes I had
the software installed and was sending group email memos spiced up with
audio. To create a voice message in Outlook, I simply put the cursor in the
body of the note and pressed a button.  

VoicePod encodes files according to a Windows standard, and it works with
Eudora and Web-based email - though several Mac users who received messages
had to fiddle with their audio players to hear the file. In any case, an
electronically thrown voice quickly garnered attention.  

ABA 2020 VoicePod: $149
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