Quote Originally Posted by LiveInTheDream View Post
-PC noises may keep some awake (personally I can't sympathize)

-Your computer gets left on all night, which is hard on the PSU if it gets used much during the day as well.
Plus you're wasting energy you have to pay for.

I think I can help with that though. I have a very inexpensive and small MP3 player (Phillips GoGear) that can also do voice recordings. The device can be connected via USB and accessed like a normal flash memory stick (that it actually contains). It should be possible to run that audio data through the recognization software later. The file size of the records is very small though, so this can be done irregularly.