Hi,
You probably know that there are birthday cards which allow you to
record a short message. When the recipient opens the card, the message
is played back. These cards typically cost a couple of bucks.
I need to know where these recording devices (excluding the card) are
sold, either  at the retail or wholesale level. The sound quality does
not have to be good. The seller can be located anywhere in the world
(I suspect asian sellers will be cheaper).
If you can provide multiple sellers I will give a proper tip.

Regards,
Paul

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 13 Jan 2006 19:29 PST

I can only find two sellers of these items, both of which only sell in
lots of thousands at a time.

Is that what you had in mind?

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Clarification of Question by pdvandenberg-ga on 14 Jan 2006 04:45 PST

Yes, that would be great!

Thanks,
Paul

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 14 Jan 2006 19:14 PST

On second look, the chips I found are more for teddy bears than
birthday cards, because of their overall dimensions:


http://ters.en.alibaba.com/offerdetail/51526940/Sell_Mini_Recorder_for_Dolls_and_Plush_Objects.html


I keep looking for flatter ones, and let you know if anything turns up.


pafalafa-ga

You could never beat the Chinese with their chip--on--the board and
rosin covered chips approach. I do not know what to use for mid to
large volumes, but for low volumes try digikey.com. They have
self--contained voice recorder chips that require few external parts.
Although these are more than 10 second parts, it was easy for me to
use the 90 second one with homebuilt PCB.