Patent ID: 8467542

Claim:
A sound recording device, comprising: a directional microphone; a non-directional microphone; a selection portion to select one of a plurality of scenes; a storing portion to store in advance a correspondence table that assigns a plurality of recording conditions to each of said plurality scenes, wherein said plurality of scenes include an oral dictation scene recording an interview and a conversation between two people, a conference scene where a plurality of persons converse recording the sound from all directions, a lecture scene recording the sound from the front as in a case where a person speaks in front of a plurality of persons, and a music scene recording a musical performance, a sound of an animal or the like in high quality, and further wherein said plurality of recording conditions include an auto level control indicating whether or not to make auto level control for changing an input level to a suitable level effective or not, a microphone assigning either one of said directional microphone and said non-directional microphone, and an encoding bit rate indicating a bit rate of encoding sound data; an auto level control switching control portion to set auto level control of said correspondence table corresponding to a scene selected by said selection portion; a sensitivity switching control portion to switch a setting of the microphone sensitivity of said correspondence table corresponding to a scene selected by said selection portion; a microphone switching control portion to switch a setting of the type of microphone of said correspondence table corresponding to a scene selected by said selection portion; and a sound recording mode switching control portion to switch a setting of the encoding bit rate of said correspondence table corresponding to a scene selected by said selection portion.