IPhone 5 voice memo has completely disappeared

I have been conducting my senior thesis project which has involved conducting interviews. All of them have been recorded on my iPhone 5. It is not set to sync automatically and I have been transferring them manually to my computer for transcription.
This morning I looked at my voice memos, where there were 5 memos from 5 different interviews. I got distracted before transferring them, and when I went to transfer, there were only 4 voice memos. The 5th, and longest interview audio, was missing. I've downloaded multiple data recovery software programs, and various programs to manually access the files on my iPhone. When I look at recovery, it finds photos I've deleted from last year, but still, only those 4 voice memos exist. I've tried iCloud backup and iTunes back up options as well, and this file is literally no where to be found. I've restarted my iPhone as well.
So, is there any other way to try to find the voice memo file or is all lost?

Unfortunately not, unless you have it backed up. If you have it backed up though, you would need to fully restore the whole device.

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