An off the shelf solution for recording your whole life:
I have a Sony recorder, ICD-UX570, and it has a setting where it turns on or off based on sound, and also adjusts the gain to best record. It takes a micro-SD card and has pretty solid battery.
I think you could put it in a breast pocket and run it for several days on a single charge. Because it would just record when you are talking or making noises you could likely run it for a year on a big SD card recording in mp3.
Change to a wifi SD card and suck the files off and process them and you might have something kind of cool.
I'm not sure about jostling, but lots of noises would set it off. It's erring on the side of recording when there is sound, and it can't tell speak from not speach, though you can set a sensitivity level.
That makes sense, thank you. If it’s not too personal, may I ask how you use your recorder? Aesthetically I have long wanted to have my own discrete voice recorder, and that ain’t if yours looks amazing, but I’m not sure I need one for anything.
I was in a course for getting better at speaking and part of it involved spending 10 minutes each morning speaking your thoughts outloud and recording them.
I could have done this with my phone, but I like the single use device nature of the recorder and its nice that's its super small.
I have a Sony recorder, ICD-UX570, and it has a setting where it turns on or off based on sound, and also adjusts the gain to best record. It takes a micro-SD card and has pretty solid battery.
I think you could put it in a breast pocket and run it for several days on a single charge. Because it would just record when you are talking or making noises you could likely run it for a year on a big SD card recording in mp3.
Change to a wifi SD card and suck the files off and process them and you might have something kind of cool.