  Face-to-face speech data collection has been next to impossible globally due
to COVID-19 restrictions. To address this problem, simultaneous recordings of
three repetitions of the cardinal vowels were made using a Zoom H6 Handy
Recorder with external microphone (henceforth H6) and compared with two
alternatives accessible to potential participants at home: the Zoom meeting
application (henceforth Zoom) and two lossless mobile phone applications
(Awesome Voice Recorder, and Recorder; henceforth Phone). F0 was tracked
accurately by all devices; however, for formant analysis (F1, F2, F3) Phone
performed better than Zoom, i.e. more similarly to H6, though data extraction
method (VoiceSauce, Praat) also resulted in differences. In addition, Zoom
recordings exhibited unexpected drops in intensity. The results suggest that
lossless format phone recordings present a viable option for at least some
phonetic studies.
