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On the heals of last fall’s voice recorder and mp3 player combos, Olympus is releasing a new Voice-Trek G-10 voice recorder and MP3/WMA player with direct USB connection in Japan on July 6th, 2006.

The G-10 will have 256MB, which isn’t much for a flash drive or mp3 player, but is fairly substantial for a voice recorder. On the longest record setting (i.e. lowest quality) for voice, it can record 68 hour and 55 minutes of audio.

A welcome feature is the built-in USB plug, which eliminates the need for dragging along a cable to upload to the PC or laptop.

The Japanese product also appears to have some sort of English language study system built-in.

An English Translation of the Olympus Japan product page offers some more detailed specifications.

From personal experience I can attest to the quality and features of the Olympus VN-960PC recorder.